The Queen of England has long been associated with the Welsh Corgi and is pictured above with her own first corgi Susan, an eighteenth birthday present for the then Princess Elizabeth. Decades later a descendant of Susan's, a corgi named Tiny, accidentally I hope, bred with Pipkin a dachshund owned by Princess Margaret. The result of this little genetic mishap? Enter the dorgi.
At the time, not wanting to openly appear offended by this travesty of mongreldom delivered upon them by their monarch and patron, The Kennel Club released this statement: "The dachshund was evolved to chase badgers down holes, and the corgi to round up cattle. If anyone loses a herd of cattle down a badger hole, then these are just the dogs to get them out." Love it!
Happy Birthday QE II.
7 comments:
I'm newly in love!
NHW: I can't blame you, Susan was very cute :)
Gee, what a funny little dog!
The corgi is ok though.
What a great story. I love dogs - all dogs. I have two cats of whom I'm inordinately fond. But they're not dogs.
WH: It's dogs all the way for me...they're just so much more interactive.
So glad her birthday was such a grand celebration. I'm inclined to think kindly of a lady whose dogs are everpresent in her life. God save the Queen!
With 3 dogs yourself now, you're getting up to a Queenly level :)
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