Michigan Corgi Breeder

We purchased our third corgi, Izzy, from Pat Gordon in Fowlerville, Mi. Her web site is corgibreeder.com Izzy is a wonderful, healthy corgi. Not only is she beautiful, she is such a sweet natured dog that I am continually amazed at how easy she is. Our other corgis were from horse people who just happened to have puppies. Unfortunately, one had so many health problems that she died at only 6. We decided to go to a breeder that screens their dogs and has healthy pups. Can't complain about the result at all.

0 members like this

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Steph Bussema on June 4, 2010 at 10:27pm

We also got our corgi, Emma, from Pat Gordon. She is small for a corgi, but Pat told us that from the beginning and she is such a sweet, loving dog, and absolutely gorgeous. It may have been more expensive, but the investment was worth it.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by justine moeller on July 5, 2010 at 9:18am

What kind of health problems did your farm corgis have Bev? If you dont mind me asking

Thanks :)

Pats website looks great, what lovely dogs!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on July 5, 2010 at 4:42pm

Justine, Worms, allergies and Buffy had bad hips, knees, and liver. The liver problems finally took her life at 6. I have no complaints about the temperaments of my farm bred corgis but feel that you just don't know enough about the health of the "family tree" most of the time. That is not to say they are all in bad health but after our nightmare with Buffy (watching the sweet thing suffer) I just feel more secure starting with a puppy from someone who takes the breeding seriously. But realistically I know there are no guarantees! I also had talked to Pat quite alot and did not know the other people at all.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on July 5, 2010 at 11:33am

We have some breeders from horse people around MN also...I have heard some not as good reviews about some of their pups. I believe also that they may just happened to have pups and no work is done with these babies!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Rockstar on July 6, 2010 at 12:25am

I got my first corgi from a breeder in Mn. He has issues with his front legs (doesn't seem to affect him yet, he's 1.5 yrs old) bowing out, his ears were never quite "corgi like" (i.e. strong and proud), but he's probably the smartest dog I've ever trained. I wouldn't typically say that either, I've owned lots of mutts over the years, some of them smart, others loyal but not so seemingly intelligent. Even my trainer sometimes gets a kick out of Rocky's reasoning abilities, and he's trained all forms of herding and police work dogs.

Our second puppy just came from a local breeder. I have been fairly pleased so far, the pup is only a couple months old though, so the rest is yet to be seen. However, I was a little annoyed that the first trip to the vet revealed that the pup had a pretty good case of hookworms and some type of bacteria in her ears. I guess that is always a possibility when the puppies are raised out in the woods though.