The Adventures of Sawyer the Corgi
Gender: Female
Breed: Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Birthday: November 11th, 2011
Things Sawyer likes: New friends, dogs, people, Bullwrinkles, her fox and racoon, Riley and Rex, and plastic water bottles.
Our group is slowly growing! Some new faces for you.
From left to right: Sawyer, Sheldon (he’s new), Paige (she’s also new and has a corgi/jack brother Dasher who is too big for the indoor small breed off leash) and finally Woofus (who isn’t new but we love him all the same)
missing: Zoé and Marlo
ESBC APRIL “DIRTY DOG” EDITION: Wipe Your Paws
With Spring comes a dirty dog. So we thought that this trick would not only be cute, but practical! Disclaimer: We are very sorry for this post is late!
Videos:
Video 1 - With a clicker, only focused on front paws.
Video 2 - Recently posted, but a good video.. doesn’t necessarily teach the hind paws but she seems to spend sometime clicking when the pup puts all four paws.
Articles:
Article 1 - Good article from Karen Pryor
Tips: Remember to keep training sessions short (no longer than 15 minutes) and fun! This is play for everyone.
As always, if you need help please feel free to ask.
What to Do at the End of the Month:
If you have Tumblr, and are going to upload to your blog. Please use the tag: ESBC . We have been liking and reblogging all the posts using that particular tag and will continue to do so through-out the challenge.
If you don’t have Tumblr, we will turn on Submit on the last day of the month -so that you can post to Emma or us a link/pictures/video of your tricks. If you want you can also leave a comment on Disqus.
Lastly, Nicole and I had a hard time coming up with this months trick. If you have any suggestions of what you’d like to learn please send them to either Nicole or myself so we have ample tricks to learn in the coming months!
Some photos of Sawyer and I at the High Flying Canines March Mayhem Disc Trial.
All photos were taken by my friend and President of HFC, Sue Joy.
BEFORE MIDNIGHT EST (5 MINUTES) CLICK THIS LINK BARKBOX.COM AND ENTER THIS CODE: TWITTER15.
I had business cards made for my Corgi meet up group to help spread the word should I see another Corgi!
If there are any Corgi’s in the Greater Toronto Area please join our group!!
The Corgi graphic is thanks to Jenny at http://starfishey.tumblr.com/.
These are the prints available to you for the Help Ed fundraiser.
We have: Ed & Ghibli, Oliver, Loki, Gatsby, Emma, Sawyer, Trinket, Bella, and lastly Simon & Tempe.
Together these Corgi’s (and non Corgi’s) and their parents have kindly donated a print to encourage you to donate to Ed.
Here is a list of what certain dollar amounts get you.
$20 - A print of any of the pups above AND an entry to a raffle to win signed posters by Kazu, and other misc. snowboard goods.
$50 - A print of any of the pups above and an entry to win 1 of 5 brand new Nidecker SNOWBOARDS graciously donated by Curry, Ookii, and Chi-Chan and their parents. You can see Ookii modelling with the snowboards above. (That photo is not available for print)
Now I know that for some people funds are tight and sometimes even 20 dollars is too much to spare. The last thing I want to do is discourage anyone from donating ANY dollar amount. So, any dollar amount donated will be entered to win a Camel Lounge donated by the Cardi & one Pembroke (Simon, Caleb, Tempe and Riley) crew.
Every donation must be proven so you can either take a screen shot of your email confirmation and email it to sawyerthecorgi@gmail.com or just forward the email itself. Make sure that the donation amount is visible. As well if you could make the subject “Help Ed” that would be great! Make sure to specify which print you want.
To donate, please click the link below.
*EDIT* Frogman has just sent me a photo of Otis to be printed. Feel free to choose this if you’d like a print of Otis!
Make sure to keep donating and send those confirmation emails in! Lots of prints to be had and prizes to be won.
This is a video of Sawyer and a bunch of pups from the frisbee practice in January.
We are doing our very first Disc Trial this weekend. I’m very nervous, but Sawyer is as cool as a corgi.
(Photo: Mr. Sam Vimes showing off his sit pretty)
First on behalf of Nicole (Emma’s mom) and myself, I just wanted to congratulate everyone that has participated in ESBC so far. The first week was super successful and it was great to see everyone’s pups improve through-out the week. Great job, everyone!
Challenge Two: Sit Pretty
Some Resources:
Expert Village - Sit Pretty
Zak George - Sit Pretty
Clicker Training Tutorials - Sit Pretty w/ clicker
If you run into trouble - post or ask a question on Tumblr! If we can’t help, someone out there will know!
Tips: Remember to keep training sessions short (no longer than 15 minutes) and fun! This is play for everyone.
How You Can Show Off on Sunday:
If you have Tumblr, and are going to upload to your blog. Please use the tag: ESBC . We have been liking and reblogging all the posts using that particular tag and will continue to do so through-out the challenge.
If you don’t have Tumblr, we will turn on Submit on Sunday so that you can post to Emma or us a link/pictures/video of your tricks. If you want you can also leave a comment on Disqus
(The Talented JP demonstrating a Bow)
First challenge: Bow
Some Resources:
Dog 101 - Bow (no clicker)
Zak George - Bow (clicker)
If you run into trouble - post or ask a question on Tumblr! If we can’t help, someone out there will know!
Tips: Remember to keep training sessions short (no longer than 15 minutes) and fun! This is play for everyone.
How You Can Show Off on Sunday:
If you have Tumblr, and are going to upload to your blog. Please use the tag: ESBC I’ll try and look as best as I can for posts, and reblog them. If I miss yours, just send one of us a note.
If you don’t have Tumblr, we will turn on Submit on Sunday so that you can post to Sawyer or us a link/pictures/video of your tricks. If you want you can also leave a comment on Disqus.
In honor of Dog Training month, Sawyer and Emma are calling out a challenge to our fellow Bloggers and Furbuddies - Join us in a TRAIN-OFF!
How This Works: First, Go to the Poll and vote on the tricks. The top 4 will be selected, and for the next 4 weeks, we will issue out a “challenge”. The following Sunday after each issued challenge, post your progress and videos! Very simple!
At the end of the month, we will take another vote on the cutest/most accomplished dog and send out a prize!
Good luck to Everyone! May the Best Puppy Win!
Sawyer & Emma
