originally, 5 months ago, i was terribly interested in getting our first dog! billy and i already have 3 cats, so we thought we wouldnt be able to handle a puppy at this time while we are both in school still, and decided to wait until we were out of college. unfortunately, i could not contain myself and somehow talked him into getting our first corgi! 

i searched FOREVER trying to look for a breeder, to look for a corgi, to look for the newest member of our family! i looked around for while, looking at shelters and rescues, but i honestly wasnt sure how the rescues worked and i also really really
neededthat puppy phase! eventually, i found an ad for "pembroke welsh corgis", and contacted the seller. they had a litter due sometime in may, and the puppies would be available in july! this particular person did not believe in docking tails, so this puppy would have a tail and would not be registrable because the sire was not registered. this wasnt a problem for me anyways cause i didnt know much about dogs and "akc" and all those other lineage .. clubs or whatnot. after chatting with him (lets call him lawrence) for a while, billy and i put a deposit for a girl and we had second best pick!

after a while and alot of thinking, i was growing impatient.. and also felt a little insecure about the tail thing. in hindsight, that was probably the stupidest thought i could have had, but i did feel a little insecure about this puppy! eventually i was looking at the "reputable" breeders in so cal and calling each and everyone one of them, and by god, they were expensive little bundles! much more expensive then what lawrence was offering to me, maybe by two times as much! after alot of contemplation and thinking and discussing, we decided we were going to drop the deposit, and try to find another corgi! eventually, i stumbled upon emi's breeder in chowchilla! emi was already available and the price was right! she was GORGEOUS and ADORABLE and was ready to go home! lawrence's pups were not even born yet! being the completely impatient person i was, we ended up taking the 6 hour journey to go get her !
she. was. perfect.everything we could have ever wanted!


link one video footage of the first day we visited at the breeders kennels with all her corgis! beside the dam, dont know where she went o____o

link two video footage of me holding emi for the first time! excuse my awkward petting of emi, i didnt know how to pet dogs LOL

after taking her home, and talking to billy, we decided that we werent going to drop the deposit on lawrence's puppy; not quiet yet! we wanted to make sure we explored
all
options! we tried seeing if anyone else would want to take the deposit for us, or if anyone else wanted a corgi puppy  but most of our friends couldnt! we decided at this point, that we would take this other puppy, even though the odds are against us! emi isnt even a year old yet, and this other puppy is a girl too! we are already going against two really strong odds but none the less, we dont want to give up without trying! having already paid for almost half of this puppy already, and also having second best pick, we really didnt want to lose the deposit and spot! 

so as of now, lawrences litter was whelped may 5th, 2012 and are availabe june 28th! we are decided to take this other puppy and not dropping the deposit, because there are two of us after all, and we honestly think it would be better that only one of us train with one dog. we truly believe we would rather have a strong bond between one of us and one of the dogs, in case for what EVER reason billy and i decided to go our separate ways. the timing and gender may not be right, but we want to try really hard to make this work!



"lawrence's" sire and dam, lester and leah! this was 3 days before she gave birth!


anyways, thats the story of the "other" puppy! i did go visit lawrence's litter (as he actually lives pretty close to me!) and they look like little alien rats (I HAVE TO BE HONEST!) we will pick our girl around 6 weeks! we can only be hopeful and hope for the best! (: