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@ Debra Solomon & Chloe:
Do you have any pics of Chloe younger?
@ Beth:
I agree the giant ear long skinny body is awkward, but I wouldn't say he's fugly lol. BTW I love corgi pics with the tongue sticking out. Sometimes Bartleby sticks his tongue out in mid standing up trick, so he's just sitting upright staring at me with his tongue sticking out and I have to stop myself from breaking out laughing. As I've seen on some websites, the tongue droop adds to the corgi "derp" factor.
Nope, Jack was never quite as Cardi-looking as Bartleby, but here he is at around 6 or 7 months. Notice the lack of chest, big ears, and thinner face. Jack as an adult has a very typey head; if show dogs were judged on head alone, he'd have been a keeper. :-) But at that age... er, not so much. (the tongue poking out just adds to the dopey look).
He looks full Pembroke to me. Yes he does have BIG ears and he does tend to have a funky front end but he is a puppy. I had a very well bred Pembroke once that is now tied for the National #1 PWC spot in UKC right now that amazingly had the same "cardi" look to him as a puppy.
Another example this past Monday dropping one of my boys off with a show handler. An 8 month old on the van that I could have swore was a Cardi at first glance and was stunned to find he was a Pem. HUGE ears, crooked front and the dog is sired by a current nationally top 10 ranked dog and from an equally well bred Pembroke dam. Even the handler admitted that he looked a lot like a cardi at his current state, this puppy is major pointed already. Wish I had some better pics to show the resemblence.
And the sutty muzzle is nothing to worry about. There are entire Pembroke bloodlines that carry this trait. It is perfectly acceptable in the breed.
@ Beth:
I took a look at some of the younger pictures you have of Jack, and he looks much more like the breed standard than Bartleby does. I have yet to run across a photo of a purebred Pembroke at 5-6months of age that closely resembles Bartleby. Even taking his markings out of consideration, his proportions are longer and leaner than any other Pems I can find.
Looks like a purebred to me. The smudge on the nose is not common in Corgis, but does happen, and is probably why people think he looks like a mix. When Jack was that age, he looked like a jack rabbit: all ears and skinny body. My Maddie is a retired show dog who titled and people still ask what kind of mix she is, so I'd take that with a grain of salt.
Here's a finished champion with a similar set of facial markings:
http://cdn.pedigreedatabase.com/pembroke_welsh_corgi/pictures/12462...
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@ Judy & Alan:
I know he'll change his looks quite a bit by the time he's full grown, but I think Bartleby looks quite different than Sarah C's Didi at the same age. The nose is shorter and wider, body looks smaller, legs look less bowed, but that may be in part due to a more petite bone structure and the way she's sitting. Didi's face looks a lot more like the breed standard, as well as like most pembroke corgi pics at that age I come across.
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