Corgi Cross Questions
I live in Cheyenne Wyoming, and i have been having a hell of a time finding a corgi (of either breed) in the area. However i did stumble onto the Wyoming dachshund and corgi rescue out of Wheatland Wyoming. ( http://www.doxieconnection.com/home.html ) I got lucky and they just had a litter of corgi mix puppies born on Monday morning, and I'm working on trying to get one later in February when they will be ready to leave.
Now i have a couple questions about the mix puppies from those that have had em in the past. They are as far as i can tell corgi and a terrier. (I will post pictures of the parents as i would love to hear opinions on which terrier they think it could be.) But first for those with cross corgis do they generally still act in a corgi manner? Herding, shedding and their other fun playful traits or should i expect it to be more of a mixture between both breeds? I understand its really up to chance as anything can happen with crosses but i mean in general.
Also i know there is a review forum for specific rescues but i figured i would just ask here so I'm not making tons of different posts. Has anyone had any dealings with this rescue (i saw a review from 2011 but I'm curious if there is anything more current) And finally in general what type things would keep me from getting the puppy? I have never gone through a rescue before and i want to make sure everything is as good as i possibly can make it. I'm mostly worried about the house/fence check, I'm pretty sure there is nothing wrong with our fence and yard but i have no idea what they look for.
I'm sure i forgot something but for now here are pictures of the parents.
[IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/Kobal1984/Duke2_zps4b1e75ec.jpg[/IMG] Father - Duke, his rescue profile lists him as a corgi/wire haired fox terrier. But i almost wonder if he is at least more corgi then terrier and no where near 50/50 with how he looks there.
[IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/Kobal1984/FuzzyDuke_zpsee689...[/IMG] This one however really shows the terrier mussel and face.
[IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/Kobal1984/Daisyandpups_zpsbb...[/IMG] Mother - Daisy. She also seems to have the wire hair, but again looks very corgi so I'm hoping the puppies will look more corgi then terrier but either way I'm sure they will be fun dogs. I'm hoping to get one of the tri-color females in the litter.
Again i would love some opinions on the breeds of the parents and maybe a guess or two on how the pups would look. I look forward to meeting them in January and hope everything goes well so i can bring one home in February some time.
Thanks
Bryan
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Permalink Reply by Snickmom on
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Ask the breeder to only let you interact with the females. When we got Jack, the owner was going to keep the female, but left her in the pen with the males. The female crawled in my son's lap..... it broke his heart that we couldn't have her. I had always had female dogs, but have had no regrets with Jack. His potty habits have been much better than some females we have had.
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Permalink Reply by Bryan Stevenson on
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We have some female pugs that have pretty bad habits too, hiding when we let the other dogs out and waiting til we go to bed and then just using the floor. But they are my moms dogs and she lets em do what they want. Couple years back we had a blue healer crossed with something or another that used to lift her leg like a male would, she was pretty strange.
However in the case of the corgi, i personally would be open to a male but my girlfriend would kill me. In your case though that would really suck, i would be terribly disappointed too if something like that happened.
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Throneberry on
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Hello! I have a beautiful mix named Sammie she is half corgi half lab. Looks just a like a lab except the body. She's taken the size of a corgi. They usually say mutts have less health problems.... Apart from mine... She was treated bad as a baby and someone threw her in a highway tunnel so she had a lot of health problems due to being mistreated. I rescued Sammie and she is wonderful and so well behaved. She is very mellow like a lab but everything else is corgi. She sleeps like a corgi, eats like a corgi, herds like a corgi... Everything. I would give this little pup a chance like I gave Sammie because I couldn't have asked for a better behaved dog... Things I wish I wouldn't have done with her is let her play so crazy jumping from couch to couch because there little legs get injuries very quickly like Sammie's did. And B.T.W Sammie is 30 lbs.
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I can see why so many corgi cross designer breeds are roaming around. Those short legs seem to be a dominant trait. Back when i was a kid we had a scottish terrier that always managed to sneak his way into a lab we had, and the puppies always had the short legs too. But they had a good two foot long body and scottie fur to go with it, they were the definition of "so ugly its cute." We did finally get him fixed after about the second litter. Course then he turned in to a scottish jelly roll.
It really sounds like this rescue is my best shot at getting a corgi, there is no way that i could afford breeder prices so these puppies, even if there is a gamble at how they will turn out later in life, who knows maybe its fate lol.
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Well Sammie also permanently looks like a puppy :) if you look at my pictures she is adorable. I would give it a try because bad genetics and bad personality can happen in any pure breed or liter and has nothing to do with just a mixed breed.
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Oh and by. The way I only see cori in the mom. She just seem like she has a longer coat.
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Permalink Reply by Ludi on
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Nah, the mother is definitely a wirehaired breed corgi x. You can see it by how coarse the hair on her torso is, as well as the typical "whiskered" look on her muzzle. :-)
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I believe both the father and mother came in at the same time, hope they aren't related. If i remember correctly she said the mother came in bred by about two weeks. I hope they weren't litter mates.
If they are litter mates (I'm sure that happens) hopefully the puppies wont be missing all the right chromosomes and end up aggressive or something.
Edit: Money should have been mother lol
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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I was just going to say that I'll be mom and dad are related. Hopefully since they are both outcrosses themselves you won't run into the genetic problems that can crop up with too close inbreeding, though.
As has been said, with crosses the personality is a total crapshoot. They could be strongly like one breed, or the other, or a blend of both, or like neither! But since you can raise the pup you will do a lot yourself in shaping the personality. Good luck!
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Yea, i know the mother will still be there when i go to see the puppies at least. The father I'm not sure about but the rescuer does treat the dogs like they are part of the family while they are there, so she should at least be able to give me an idea on his personality. So hopefully i will be able to get all the factors in while picking one.
If their genetic lines are a little too close, hopefully it wont cause too much trouble, as long as the dog doesn't end up aggressive for no apparent reason it should be fine. I do plan to have kids some day and the puppy should be around for that, plus i want to move into town in the next couple years (if money will allow it.) So i don't want to have a needlessly aggressive or violent dog, (And by that i mean from inbreeding to the point of crazy) But I'm pretty sure that wont be the case here. Plus there is the chance that they aren't even related at all.
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While there are definitely some traits (like insanely high prey drive) that cannot be diluted or made to disappear through nurture, a LOT of nature can be overcome with the right home environment as Jane mentioned earlier. I have a Border Collie puppy, and her breed is known for sound sensitivity as well as being fairly easy to "spook". Thanks to the TONS of work her breeder put into the formative eight weeks of the litter, all the dogs are almost bombproof against noises. I have received a lot of comments already about how, for a BC, Lady is very well grounded and doesn't spook, which is a godsend for dog sports!
Since you plan on living in the city and eventually having children, knock out both and bring the pup around to a neighbourhood school being let out, with your girlfriend. That's what I did with my husband - we just walked straight up to families picking up their kids and asked if they could help us socialise our little puppy. Most of the time, the parents are thrilled to have their kids focus on something other than screaming and running on the pavement next to a busy road. Work up to the noise slowly, of course, but do make sure to pack as much socialisation as possible in between 8 to 16 weeks! It is the CRUCIAL time for this. :-)
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