My Corgi Chopin

Chopin and Blue Rat

2010-01-15T19:04:00.000-08:00

"What, is there something on my butt?"

Blue rat is my most friendly and sweet rat out of the five of them; her and Chopin really get along when they're on the bed together.
Even though Chopin wants to be best friends with Mujo the cat, he has a pretty good time with Blue rat as well.

Mujo used to be my Boyfriend's cat, but he's come to live with us. Within a month he was pretty much the king of the house, he makes rounds during the night where he'll bang on each person's door until he's let in, sleeps on their bed for about an hour, and then bangs the door to be let out.
Every time Mujo sees Chopin, he runs up to him and starts hitting him until Chopin is crying in a corner, but that apparently doesn't stop Chopin from trying to befriend him.

"smooch"

We found out that Chopin really likes to lick Blue rat's butt though, and that's kind of nasty...

Have a great day!

PS. Petco has a great Christmas sale right after the holidays are over :D We got Chopin a ton of cute Christmas stuff for 75% off. I'm not sure it's still going on, but now we have Christmas stuff for next year!

"I totally hate this"

Happy New Year!

2010-01-04T23:35:00.000-08:00

"Hay guys, didya miss me?"

Well first off, happy new year! I know I haven't updated very much at all (and I have no excuse), but decided to remedy that by making one of my resolutions to update the blog more often.
I feel terrible too because I haven't blogged about a lot of Chopin's firsts, like his first bath, his first walk, or his first trip to the groomer, but luckily there are a few that haven't been missed yet, like his first birthday!

Chopin has been doing great and has just passed the one year mark, his birthday was on December 31st, we didn't have a party for him since everyone was busy preparing for a New Years gathering, but he's just matured into the most wonderful dog I could ever hope for.

"LET ME IN THE CAR ARE WE GOING TO THE BEACH?"

He also took his first road trip with us just after Christmas, we went to Palm Springs and Chopin (when he wasn't forced to stay in the hotel room) had a blast schmoozing with his other dog friends. I thought he'd fuss more in the car, but he did surprisingly well, thought it was only about a 3 hour car ride, he did manage to chew up his leash when we weren't paying attention...

"Hello I am so fashionable"

We found this adorable little dog fashion store in an outlet mall we went to and bought Chopin a rhinestone collar for his "birthday present", the woman working there was super nice and seemed very knowledgeable about dogs in general. I wish I could remember the store name for next time, but I can't recall it at all.

Anyway, I could write more, but pictures can say so much more than I can ever type (plus this keyboard is terrible and my hands are cold.)

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

"Sunnin' with my doggles"

"Time to save Hyrule again"

"When I was your age we didn't have fancy automobiles, we had to walk 10 miles to school...in the snow!"

"Who is this tiny corgi? He is crampin' my style"

To the BEACH!

2009-04-27T21:25:00.000-07:00

"o hai gaiz!"

Sorry for not posting in forever, it's been a little over a month, and Chopin's done a lot of things like, his first bath, and walking outside, I feel bad for not blogging about those... :[

He's learned quite a few more tricks, but didn't seem too up for doing them when I was recording him, nevertheless, enjoy this video. (please ignore my fat legs in the end LOL, also I am sick so I sound nasaly)

but today we took him to the beach to socialize him, and have some fun.

"I am hesitant..."

Chopin was kind of scared of the other dogs (especially since they were more than twice his size) and this really energetic boxer puppy kept running up to Chopin and smacking him in the face, I don't think Chopin was too thrilled to meet other dogs after that; he kept hiding behind my legs.

We took him to walk on the seashore a bit as well, and he was terrified of the waves coming in, whenever I lured him over with treats, he'd see a wave coming and would run for dear life.

"sand is delicious! Also, look at my fat neck."

The car ride home was very quiet, Chopin was half asleep the entire time.
"I want go hooooome..."

When we brought him home he had a bath, then I gave his nails a trim and cleaned out his ears, so it's safe to say he was way exhausted. After pooping and peeing him in the yard, he plopped into his new crate and went to sleep.
"Leave me alone, I want to sleeep!!!"

Thanks for reading!

Lazy afternoon...

2009-03-16T17:17:00.000-07:00

Sorry for not posting so much, I've been busy with school and the such. Chopin is super well behaved, he's very patient with waiting for his food.

"waaait, waaaait, GOOD BOY!"

He's gotten pretty big as well, and longer.
his ears are a little stinky, he may have an ear infection from bathing :[ we try to dry his ears after his bath, but I guess we didn't get all of it; I've been cleaning his stinky earwax whenever I can as well.

Today I found him sleeping on his back in the crate, but when I opened the door to take a picture, he flipped over to his belly, so I got a picture of him mid-flip haha.

Thanks for reading!

Little black sweater

2009-02-26T15:05:00.001-08:00

We bought the cutest little black sweater for him, since he seems to be cold going outside to poo poo, he looks adorable in it, we also bought him a Mr.Orange amoeba man, he loves him.
I'm a little worried because it seems like he may have fleas? I found one flea on him, and then saw him itching and wasn't sure if it was because of his sweater or more fleas. I hope it's not from our house, or else we'll have to check Mujo the cat for them too.

On another note, I've taught him how to sit! It took forever to get him to pay attention, but I got excited when he finally plopped his fat little butt down, and now he's in his crate again for a little afternoon nap.

He does it so adorably...

"grrr, I'm a brat!"

Hooray!

2009-02-25T13:50:00.000-08:00

"Whatchu lookin' at?"

Yay, he's finally home!!

On the ride home, I carried him in my lap, and we had a few toilet accidents, lucky for me my mom bought some toilet training pads (peepeepads) so I spread that out on the car floor and Chopin promptly had diarrhea. (from his shots and worming medicine). We thought we were finally out of the storm, but after putting him in his crate, he peed a little in there, and refused to get near the peepee.

"Don't put me back in there with the pee!"

Currently he's fast asleep in his crate and he looks so cozycomfy, he's gotten a little bigger since
we saw him two weeks ago and his coat is really starting to grow in.

"I have already become the KING of this house"

here's a cute video just for you~

Thanks for reading!

Ahhh the excitement!

2009-02-24T22:59:00.000-08:00

(photo courtesy of my dad)

This is going to be my first blog and my first dog ever.
It's the night before we get to pick him up, I'm way too excited, we picked the only little boy in the litter, and his name is Chopin (Show-pahn) named after my favorite composer :]
He's so adorable....
We've gotten his dog tag made already, hope I can get to sleep.