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Corgis, aka the cutest dogs on the planet, may become endangered (http://now.msn.com/pembroke-welsh-corgis-may-become-endangered#scps...

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Usually if you see no evidence of a tail at all, not even a nub, then the dog is docked.  The show dock is done very high and usually only leaves one vertebrae.   The farm-type dock usually leaves two or three vertebrae.   A natural bob can be anywhere from a half-tail to just on vertebrae, but usually has some longer hairs at the tip.  So if you don't need to trim hairs, it's probably a show-dock.  :-)

http://www.freewebs.com/annwn/trimmingabobtail.htm

http://anne.kleivens.com/annwn/bobtails.php

Interestingly, the bobtail is a lethal dominant so you could never breed dogs with 100% bobs.   If the dog has one copy of the bobtail gene, it will have a bobtail.   But if it has two copies, the fetus never develops and the dog is never born (though there have been a few reports of deformed homozygous bobs that could not survive puppyhood; not sure how common this happens but I believe it's pretty rare).

So every bobtail carries one copy of the bob gene and one copy of the full-tail gene, and therefore every breeding has a chance to produce some tailed dogs.

Beth...that is interesting about the bobtail, I had no idea.

Katie would have a show dock then...I know she was shown and then retired and had 2 litters.  Max...well, being a fluffy he was stricly pet quality but he must also have a show dock.  See how much I don't know!  I learn a lot on here.

All of mine have show docks except for 1 and then of coarse Sage has her complete tail. At least Livvy I can see her tail wag vigorously while the others I see their but wiggle but really have to look. If you check out my pics you can see several tails and they all have white tips at the ends. I have never seen a Corgi with a natural bob...I would like to though!

More than likely...this is what your pups tails looked like when they were born.

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