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One Ma'am and her dogs: Or how the Queen can control her beloved Labradors from 800 yards
Daily Mail ^
| 8-26-11
| Tim Heald
Posted on 08/27/2011 7:32:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
My first encounter with a royal dog came in November 1990, when I rather nervously accepted an invitation to lunch at Clarence House to discuss my forthcoming biography of Prince Philip. Ushered into a drawing room by an equerry, I was introduced first to the Queen Mother, then Princess Margaret and finally one of the small brown barrels of fur sitting on the carpet.
The corgi gazed up...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2029871/Queen-controls-Labradors-800-yards-just-using-hand-signals-whistles.html#ixzz1WEuqI8m0
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: doggieping; dogtraining; queen; royalkennel; royalty
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An interesting look back at all the Queen's dogs and how she came to be so devoted to them. She is a first class dog handler and she owns far more than corgis.
To: Joe 6-pack
The doggie ping list will find this article interesting
To: afraidfortherepublic
Sit! The Queen's skills as a dog handler is renowned. She using hand signals and whistle to control her Labradors I know that American English does differ from English English, but ... perhaps not this much!
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08/27/2011 7:36:20 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: gorush
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:36:20 AM PDT
by
txhurl
(Did you want to talk or fish?)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; Shannon; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:39:00 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; Shannon; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:39:00 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: txhurl
"NOT a corgie ping!"It is now! :{)
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:46:02 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
That’s what you call a low rider! LOL!
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:48:13 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: gorush
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:51:33 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
'S ok that the dog has short legs. It is designed (we humans did that) for going into holes in the ground to flush out pissed off honey-badgers. So we humans can kill them.
We (humans) are good that way. We modify carnivores for pets. Not herbivores.
Until the next mass extinction event, we're the baddest SOBs on the round globe. ;) T-Rex don't got 'nothin on us.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
The corgis are herders and are bred short so that they stay under the kicking hooves of sheep and cattle. They are deceptively fast and agile.
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:58:08 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
08/27/2011 7:59:57 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: gorush
I'll bet I could get one to flush a badger out of a hole in the ground and it would help me kill it. ;)
But whatever Corgis were bred for, us meat-eating, opposed thumb bad asses are responsible.
That was the point I was trying to make.
They are very pretty dogs, never met one personally, but I'm sure I'd get along with one or a group of them. I'm more of a lab kind of guy, big, goofy, ugly and very, very much a predator at heart. ;)
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
When ever a Democrat comes to the door my corgis try to roll in it. :{)
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posted on
08/27/2011 8:08:34 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
In my old neighborhood there was a corgi-collie mix. It was a frightening hybrid.
To: rabidralph
We bought a house years ago that came with Rex, a collie malamute mix. He was 8 at the time and lived for another 8 years with us. He was a sweetheart.
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posted on
08/27/2011 8:17:42 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
Corgis !
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posted on
08/27/2011 8:18:04 AM PDT
by
JMJJR
( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
08/27/2011 8:21:04 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: JMJJR
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posted on
08/27/2011 8:23:44 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
He’s handsome. The mix I saw had skinny collie legs, corgi barrel body and corgi bat face and ears.
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