Boatyard Dog - Issue 110

Here we have a Pembroke Welsh corgi, originally bred for herding. That’s an occupation that seems unusual for a boatyard dog, but consider all they are called on to do in Dick Pulsifer’s Brunswick boatshop, where there are always corgis about: There are boatbuilder Pulsifer himself and his assistant to keep in line, visitors to protect from all those sharp boatbuilding tools, and a bunch of chickens to keep out from underfoot. (Boatyard Chickens? What’s next? Boatyard Bunnies?) Big in body, short in leg, corgis make wonderful pets and—believe it or not—spectacular guard dogs. They might spend a lot of time sleeping in the shavings—Pulsifer builds wooden Hampton boats—but if anything untoward should happen, they are right on top of the job. They are short, it’s true, but given provocation they have what’s best described as attitude. Nobody even thinks about messing with the Pulsifer boatshop when they’re around.