My corgi's name is Austin, he's also part beagle and as a result doesn't have the trademark ears, but the little legs and fur are still all there. He does have the high pitched beagle bark, though, annoying as hell.

My family and I were actually at a movie when we found him, laying under a van in the parking lot, covered in ticks and flees as well as being very skinny. A woman there was dialing for animal control, he then walked over, laid down at my feet and looked up at me expectantly. Knowing how it would go at animal control being a grown dog (IE not a puppy) we knew what would probably happen if they took him away. So, we took him to the vet, got the ticks and flees removed and surprisingly, found out he had an owner. The vet's were actually quite familiar with people bringing him in like this so we decided to keep him and the veterinarian was quite pleased.

So now, 10 years later, he's fat and extremely happy. I was 8 at the time and through this decade he has been my best pal, though his personality can tick me off sometimes (when he decides he doesn't like something he'll stand outside for 15 minutes and not do anything, then come inside and pee on something valuable to me, the bastard), just gives me all the more reason to love him, because I know I'm the same way (without the urinating on objects part).

We never trained him, which is probably why he has such a free, awesome and sometimes vengeful personality. His favorite activity is to lay around, bark at whatever is going down the street and during the evening he absolutely loves to lay on the grass in the sun and catch up on his beauty sleep.

He can be a short legged dick-head, but he's my short legged dick-head and I love him to bits.