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Permalink Reply by Sam on November 3, 2008 at 9:46am

The choice to add another is because YOU wish to have one not because you think your dog wants a pal. While it does sound like he would be most accepting of another pup I think the work at this time would be far more than you bargained for. Keep him socializing with other dogs, perhaps invite a dog pal to bring their dog to your house for play dates. Now would be a great time to take an obedience class so you learn the basics of training a dog. This will be a wonderful bonding session with you and your dog, make him a better companion, socialize him and give you a more solid background when it is time to add a new pup. I would wait until he is at least a year old....typically they go through the teenage struggle very close to this age.

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Permalink Reply by Erica on November 3, 2008 at 10:11am

I totally feel the same way, I wish Wyatt had a brother or sister for him to play with. I think eventually we will get one. He needs a friend to play with during the day when I am not there.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Geddes on November 3, 2008 at 10:31am

We waited until Bear was "somewhat" mature at 2-1/2 years before adding Tasha to our family. I am glad that we let Bear be the "corgi king" for those two years: we got to know and love one another deeply, his obedience and sporting habits were relatively cemented and for that period of time, we really enjoyed (and worked) at raising this corgi. Tasha came into the family and there were major adjustments including increased demands on my time, more classes, Bear's feelings and properly developing Tasha's alpha "femaleness". It gets better: by the time Tasha was five, we added our third corgi, Linus and I found myself in the perfect triangle balancing the needs of a new corgi and blending everybody together into the pack (and I was more experienced). As my only daughter is in college, my at-home time whirls about three corgis, obedience, therapy dog training, agility, herding clinics and washing doggie beds! I feel that spacing your corgi family out is a good thing giving you time to develop that important relationship between you and your dog. Yes, dog to dog relationships have value - but in your corgis eyes, the relationship with the human is of utmost importance. All the best from Williamsburg, VA: Bear, Tasha and Linus (and Nancy, the human).

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Permalink Reply by Yogi on November 9, 2008 at 7:40pm

thanks for the advice. i think i will wait. we will continue to take him to daycare and may increase it to twice a week. we will also look into setting up more play dates.

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Permalink Reply by Tina on November 10, 2008 at 8:48am

We just got our second dog a week ago Saturday. Ein is 8 months and our new puppy is 1 year. Ein is a very social puppy, but we thought we were ready for a second dog, and had the time to give him/her, plus were able to afford it. So, we rescued Ed from a shelter. The corgis have different personalities, that's for sure. Where Ein is very well potty trained and not a barky dog, Ed responds very well to coming when called but barks at any little thing. We've noticed in this past week that both seem tired at the end of the day, especially Ein. Ed seems to have a bit more energy. We had continued with our two walk a day regiment, but Ein was just so exhausted that he couldn't do the walks anymore.

Ed was given up to the shelter because his previous owners had one corgi, didn't have enough time to play with him, so got a second. They finally decided that it wasn't good for either of them to have little human interaction and gave them both up.

I guess the questions you should ask yourself then are:
Do you have time to give both an adequate amount of attention?
Are you ready for your life to be disrupted? Ein and Ed are figuring out who is in charge after us so there are little squabbles that break out
Have you dog sat a dog with Yogi so you can see how Yogi reacts? We did this prior to adopting Ed so we could see if we could handle a second dog and to see how Ein acted with a second in the house.
Are you prepared for your mostly well-behaved Yogi to regress? We've seen that Ein has regressed in his training a bit. Because Ed has minimal training, we give him treats for simpler tasks, but Ein doesn't want to wait, so he has started jumping up again and will go after treats we give to Ed.

I guess that is all I can think of right now. We don't regret getting Ed in the least, but it is work. Ed is adjusting to his new food, so he has been getting diarrhea and needed to go out every 4 hours or so. Ein was also sick when we first got Ed because he didn't know to take breaks until he was too exhausted.

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