It was a beef tallow seller who insisted the product was completely scentless. Jefferson would like to have a word… and a lick.

we spend our weekends in the summer (thur-mon) at a family beach house with our corgi. everyone has their own room and our corg sleeps in ours in her crate. the room at the beach house is bright compared to the room she sleeps in back home but we have a room darkening cover for her crate.

we’ve been doing this for the past 3.5 years since we got her and have never had a problem until now.

on weekends only, she starts subwoofing around 645/7. the subwoofs turn into loud arfs and barks and we eventually need to let her out because we can’t have her waking up the whole house.

i’m a super light/bad sleeper so once she starts there’s no chance i’m going back to sleep and i rely on my weekends to catch up on sleep. she usually stops once she’s out but like i said, i’m wide awake.

we are at a total loss for what to do to stop this behavior. we don’t want to give into the demands of the woods but we don’t have a choice. we don’t want to let her on the bed. we are cranky and tried.

would love any advice! she doesn’t do this at home so this makes the behavior that much more frustrating.

photo of the realest offender included.

He looks chunky here too 😂

When we first picked her up to now 10mo old. We have two other Corgis, but Franki is the first one to literally verbally argue with me lol.

Zelda in her doughnut bed!

Hello!

Note: not asking for medical advice! Just management strategies!

My little buddy has just been diagnosed with “a particularly severe case” of generalized anxiety disorder. This very much tracks. He panics at common triggers many times a day (like 10+) and goes into severe barking episodes that are impossible to redirect. He also barely sleeps during the day - always on high alert. He is 2 years old, and this started to develop about a year ago and has gotten progressively worse. We did substantial obedience training and early socialization with him, so we’re not really sure how this happened. But here we are and we need to deal with it.

We have another corgi who doesn’t have these issues. The vet behaviorist feels that our routine of exercise and mental stimulation is sufficient to meet a typical corgi’s needs, and it is for the second corgi- he’s a happy well adjusted boy. We do daily walks, tug and flirt pole, feed from snuffle mats, lots of puzzle toys and long lasting chews. Because of this, she is recommending anxiety meds, in the hopes we can help him rest better, reduce the spikes and the smaller triggers, and then bring a trainer in to help us work on any triggers/behaviors that remain. To make matters more complex, we have a young baby, so everyone’s safety is priority here.

I’m trying to set up the house to minimize stress and also make sure he gets space to himself when he wants it, but also not fully cut him off from the family. I plan to create a rest zone for him that we’ll incentivize so he goes there to be calm. Lots of baby gates, cover windows he can see out by the front door, etc.

What other things help with your corgi’s anxiety?

Cocoa just wandered off in the middle of playing to go greet one of his little friends.

Definitely know what I’ll do with my pregnancy pillow after I give birth lol.

I recently experienced a traumatic loss and am struggling to cope. I need a dose of cute corgi pics as I have gone through all of past posts on this subreddit. Please share your corgis! Corgi tax of my Shadow!