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  • Royal Dog Fight. Literally

    The furry and the fury:
    Royal dogfight turns deadly
    Princess Anne's terrier
    mauls queen's beloved corgi




    Queen Elizabeth's daughter Princess Anne has owned English bull terriers for years. In 1996, she took these two for an outing at her Gloucestershire, England, home.

    The Associated Press
    Updated: 4:24 p.m. ET Dec. 24, 2003LONDON

    There will be a face — and four paws — missing from beneath the queen’s table this Christmas.

    As the royal family gathered Wednesday to celebrate the holidays, Queen Elizabeth II was mourning the death of one of her beloved corgis, mauled by a terrier with a violent past owned by her daughter Princess Anne.

    Buckingham Palace would not comment on the widely reported attack, which has cast a pall over the family’s holiday celebrations. An unidentified “royal insider” told The Sun newspaper that the queen was devastated by the dog’s death.

    British newspapers said Pharos the corgi was hurt in an altercation with Dotty the bull terrier at the royal family’s Sandringham estate on Monday. The 77-year-old queen, recovering from recent knee surgery, hobbled to the scene to find Pharos badly injured, with one leg broken in three places.

    The corgi was treated by royal vets but had to be put down, reports said.

    A previous attack

    Dotty was in the news — and her royal owner in court — last year after she attacked two children in a park. But Colette Case, a prominent London pet behavior consultant, said the latest tragic incident “could have happened in any household.”

    “Corgis are very feisty dogs and are known for getting themselves into scrapes and scraps,” she said.

    The queen is a noted corgi fancier and has owned more than 30 of the petite Welsh cattle dogs, starting with Susan, who was given to her on her 18th birthday in 1944.

    She has also introduced a new breed of dog known as a “dorgi” — the unlikely result of one of her corgis mating with a dachshund named Pipkin belonging to her sister Princess Margaret.

    Her affection for the breed is well known. Photographs of Buckingham Palace published in the Daily Mirror tabloid last month, taken by a reporter posing as a royal footman, showed a Tupperware container of dog biscuits on the queen’s breakfast table.

    The dogs often sneak into official palace functions, including a reception for President Bush last month. Newspaper reports said the queen hangs out Christmas stockings packed with doggie treats for her canine companions.

    Queen's pack now eight dogs

    The death of Pharos leaves the queen with eight corgis and dorgis.

    Dotty has been in the doghouse before. In April 2002 she bit two children, aged 7 and 12, as they walked in Windsor Great Park near Windsor Castle.

    Princess Anne was fined $880 — the first time in the modern age that a senior member of the British royal family had been convicted of a criminal offense.

    After a canine psychologist described Dotty as “an utterly placid, playful dog,” the judge spared the terrier’s life but ordered that the animal undergo training and be kept on a leash in public places.

    Case said Dotty was not necessarily to blame for the latest incident.

    “We don’t even know what happened. It could have been self-defense,” she said. “The corgis have had to see behavior consultants in the past for biting members of the household staff, so they are not exactly the easiest of dogs to manage either.

    “I think this was a very badly managed situation that was allowed to get out of control. Just bad handling. (Princess Anne) has had an incident with this dog in the past, so she knew that this dog required even greater management and care.”

    © 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3802411/

  • #2
    Well, I guess what they say is true: Shit Happens.
    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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    • #3
      Originally posted by TopHatter
      Well, I guess what they say is true: Shit Happens.
      The bad part is that they keep the dog after it attacked two children, and now, they are shock that it went after one of the other animals. :roll

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      • #4
        Proof-positive that blue blood does not equate to an ounce (or a gram?) of common sense.:doh!
        “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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        • #5
          Originally posted by TopHatter
          Proof-positive that blue blood does not equate to an ounce (or a gram?) of common sense.:doh!
          Got that right. :LOL

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          • #6
            It would be a gramme. The dog bites only got to court because of who the dog owner was.

            Mind you, the dog was threatened wtih being put down if it bit anyone again. I guess it had been checking with its lawyer and realised Corgis don't count.

            Of course, it may not have realised who the Corgis worked for ..... Looks like a case of bad advice to me :)
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            • #7
              Hmm turns out that Dottie was fitted up. She isn't a serial attacker after all. It was another dog, Florrie.

              Personally i think this is a palace cover up. Has Princess Anne got an alibi?
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              • #8
                Jeez, it is a bloodbath. florrie has now attacked a maid!

                Just thought i would be first with the breaking news :)
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