IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — It was a perfect morning for British royalty.

Welsh corgis — Queen Elizabeth's favorite dog breed — and their part-corgi brethren romped Sunday through the damp grass of Hunter's Run park as their owners, bundled for the first chilly weekend of the fall, stood in clusters and talked about their dogs.

"He always runs sideways with his butt shaking," Anna Mascardo, 10, of Iowa City, said of her corgi, Perry.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that Mascardo and Penny Podhajsky, 49, of Iowa City, started the Corridor Corgis club in 2018 with a gathering that included their cor...