BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:18 PM

It's a good one Joy but what will you do if Florence is not redeemeed?

What a strange family though? Dysfunctional or what? They really are a throw back to pre-industrial revolution times when land was wealth and inhertance of such was all.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Joybell
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:33 PM

I thought about that Les, but Florry could be slotted in where Dotty now is. Doesn't sound as good but it works. ...naughty, naughty Florry dog....
The Queen is carrying on the tradition of naming her dogs grandly, while Princess Anne seems to aiming a class below. I think the royals should set an example and name their pets: King, Queen and Duke. Good straight forward Royal names.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Joybell
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:41 PM

We could call ours: Serf, Peasant, Humble-a-foot, Underling, Everydog, Beg-a-bone, Blot, Beg-pardon-I'm-just-a-dog, or Spot.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Gypsy
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:53 PM

When breading a bulldog, be certain to cover with ample egg batter, and coat thoroughly with bread crumbs..........runningandduckingforcover,butcannotresisttypos!

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 09:51 PM

Several years ago, I met a fawn Minitature Bull Terrier I would have ran away with, if I thought I could run fast enough....(fawn is a light brown....)

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:06 PM

OK, it's me again...Susan (and others...) I am going to say it one more time...there is NO breed called a Pit Bull....not by any recognized Kennel Club. American Staffordshire Terriers and (English) Staffordshire Terriers are often called so.....BUT!!! there are NO PIT BULLS!!! Nobody ever seems to call English Bulldogs, Bull Terriers, Min. Bull Terriers, Boston Bull Terriers, French Bull Terriers, etc.... PIT Bulls.....

The Staff and AmStaff are NOT foundation stock for anything, YET, because there are NO PIT BULLS!!!

OK, rant off.....but this is one of my pet peeves...Oh, there is another recognized breed, the American Bulldog....but, that is NOT a PIT BULL either...because there is no such thing....Sorry again...

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:29 PM

I guess kids, adults and other dogs are attacked by figments of their imagination then.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 07:47 AM

Sorcha: sorry, but lack of recognition by any established kennel club does not mean a breed does not exist!
The Kennel Club has only recognised 'Jack Russell Terriers' (or Parson Jack Russells) in recent years. Pedigrees now published by The Kennel Club often show early forebears as registered with the "Jack Russell Terrier Club" because these dogs were not then of an 'accepted' breed. However, their decendants are.

It seems likely that public outcry may prevent there ever being a recognised breed standard for 'Pit Bull Terriers' with any of the kennel clubs. This does not mean that they don't exist!

CHEERS

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Mickey191
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:41 AM

Sorcha, In this area of N.Y., dogs thought to be pit bulls, or those that resemble the stereotype of pit bulls have been renamed. The ASPCA calls them St. Francis terriers. This, in the hopes of getting people to take a more kindly attitude toward these dogs and adopt them. I do not know how wide spread the practice is.

As I quickly read the story of Royals & their dogs, I thought the maid's name was Florence. Last line in th
paper was: The royal family has not decided if Florence will be put down. I thought that crap went out with Henry the eighth.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 10:03 AM

You know you're right there. I've never heard my Corgi's bay. Voodoo does a good hair raising Yodel though. One of these days I'll record it and post it.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 10:37 AM

All of the 'pit bulls' I've ever seen, live, TV,etc, have been either Staff. Terriers or Am. Staff. Terriers....good luck with the St. Francis thing....(and Jacks/Parsons were recognized for years in the UKC)

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 11:59 AM

Sorcha: a quick check of the 'Terriers' listing for The Kennell Club shows that 'Parson Russell Terriers' have a breed standard whilst 'Jack Russell Terriers' do not.
Although the differences are small (like Pembroke/Cardigan Corgis, or Norfolk/Norwich Terriers) they are sufficient to say that one breed is not officially recognised

CHEERS

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:47 PM

Why don't they keep cats instead? Just imagine the headlines:
"Queen's Pussy Savaged By Princess Anne's Pussy"!
Oh dear......
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:47 PM

Chief Chaos, I'd like to hear Voodoo's yodel. A relief to find that my poem's accurate on that point. I'd have a hell of a time finding another good rhyme. Of course there's Trey, Stephen Foster's dog. Trey rhymes. What I've been wondering is - what happened to Foster's first and second dogs? Were they less faithful and kind? I'm glad he found Trey anyway. A gentle, kind dog is a valuable friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:50 PM

Jenny, You are wicked! What a great headline. Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 09:53 PM

Well, for a long, long time, no Russels have been AKC, while Jacks and Parsons were diff. varieties of the same breed in UK. Now, the ACK has finally recognized Jacks, just in time for the US breed club to change the name to Parson Jacks....but, I will go read that...and, I do know that here are hundreds, if not thousands, of pure breeds world wide that are not recognized by any club....but, I still say that there are NO 'pit bulls'....any dog 'pitted in the ring to a bull' was a 'pit bull'.....

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From:
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 05:18 AM

Hey what the heck are you all bad mouthing the royal family it was mistaken identity ok it was utter confussion and had to recollect their thoughts after all HM The Queen had her thoughts on Christmas and not that

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 10:53 AM

I think you'll find that there was a mistake about the corgi which was killed. It was not one those diminutive welsh dogs, but Mr Cyril Hackstraw a CORGI (Council for Registered Gas Installers) gas fitter.
The princess sent a nice bunch of flowers and an invitation to one of her garden parties to his widow who wrote back saying that she didn't really mind as her husband had a very large life insurance policy.

Since everything has worked out fine (and Mrs Hackstraw has gone on a world cruise with a young lad she met through a dating agency), I don't see why people must keep harping on about the incident - after it's not as if it was a poor dumb animal that got killed.

Subject: RE: BS: Royals involved in Corgi-gate
From: Bert
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 12:53 PM

I hate to have to disagree with my darlin' Sorchie, but I was bitten by a corgi when I was a kid.

And why all the bloody fuss, I thought it was part of growing up that you had to get bitten by a dog and scratched by a cat and pecked by a bird and so on. That's what pets are for, to teach kids about life.