The death of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8 at the age of 96, has made Corgi dogs, the monarch’s favorite breed, the most sought after by Britons.
According to British pet adoption and sales website Pets4Homes, searches for corgis have increased tenfold in the past week.
Meanwhile, prices have doubled in the past three days, reaching $2,900 for a Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
The late monarch got her first corgi, Susan, in 1944 when she turned 18, having more than 30 copies throughout her life, most of which were descendants of that first animal. “She loved her first corgi and she loved the 30 corgis that followed,” said Roger Mugford, the Queen’s dog handler.
“The purebred corgi is hard to beat. He has many virtues: he is a working dog, with a big mind and a big heart in a small body. They usually have a good character and are very trainable. They have all the training qualities of a border collie,” he said.
The Queen currently has two corgis named Muick and Sandy, who will be taken in by her son, Prince Andrew, and his ex-wife, the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, as it was the Duke of York who gave her mother puppies last year when her husband, Philip of Edinburgh, was hospitalized.
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“They were the great relaxation, the great therapy, of state affairs,” says Mugford.
Original news from RT in Spanish
