You guys are making me miss having a dog!! So many beautiful pictures of puppies with babies. Lindy, I am really pushing for our next dog to be a corgi. Our last one was a lab. I love labs, but I've always wanted a corgi!
Laura, I've heard about double merles having health problems :/. IF (and a big IF) we get another, we want a male blue merle and we will call him Finn.
Aww I would love to have a blue Merle. Although your red Merle is a cutie too!! The next breed on our soggy wish list is a husky. Won't be getting him anytime soon though!
You guys are making me miss having a dog!! So many beautiful pictures of puppies with babies. Lindy, I am really pushing for our next dog to be a corgi. Our last one was a lab. I love labs, but I've always wanted a corgi!
I love our corgi! We adopted her and she was abused, so she has some emotional issues, but she is still a really good dog. DH wants another one someday, but we will see, the fur can be a bit much during the shedding season but that would be the only reason I would consider getting a different type of dog.
You guys are making me miss having a dog!! So many beautiful pictures of puppies with babies. Lindy, I am really pushing for our next dog to be a corgi. Our last one was a lab. I love labs, but I've always wanted a corgi!
I love our corgi! We adopted her and she was abused, so she has some emotional issues, but she is still a really good dog. DH wants another one someday, but we will see, the fur can be a bit much during the shedding season but that would be the only reason I would consider getting a different type of dog.
I'm so jealous of your positive corgi experience. My mom has a corgi. She is so adorable but so mean!! She loves people, but attacks dogs. She's also been known to turn on humans if she feels threatened that you are going to touch her food or toys. She also pokes and nips(herding tendencies) at people, especially Pey.
I love our corgi! We adopted her and she was abused, so she has some emotional issues, but she is still a really good dog. DH wants another one someday, but we will see, the fur can be a bit much during the shedding season but that would be the only reason I would consider getting a different type of dog.
I'm so jealous of your positive corgi experience. My mom has a corgi. She is so adorable but so mean!! She loves people, but attacks dogs. She's also been known to turn on humans if she feels threatened that you are going to touch her food or toys. She also pokes and nips(herding tendencies) at people, especially Pey.
I've heard some corgis can have issues with all those things but the two I've had haven't. Our current one is a respect your owner dog, and we did have to show her we were boss at the beginning (not hitting or anything like that!) but now she is great. She is kind of obsessed with her toys but will always let you throw it or pick it up.
I'm so jealous of your positive corgi experience. My mom has a corgi. She is so adorable but so mean!! She loves people, but attacks dogs. She's also been known to turn on humans if she feels threatened that you are going to touch her food or toys. She also pokes and nips(herding tendencies) at people, especially Pey.
I've heard some corgis can have issues with all those things but the two I've had haven't. Our current one is a respect your owner dog, and we did have to show her we were boss at the beginning (not hitting or anything like that!) but now she is great. She is kind of obsessed with her toys but will always let you throw it or pick it up.
Here are Cole and Ebony - pekeingese poodle mixes (same parents, different litters). Cole has agression issues too and we struggle with keeping the kids safe from him. We can't rehome him, he has special eye care needs and is a biter (Competitive Agression - we had him diagnosed by a behaviorist at a university vet hospital). It is basically a pack-order issue that came about when DH and his Ex divorced (she actually picked out the dogs, but then left them behind when she bailed on DH) and the pack order changed b/c his ex was the bottom and then when I came around I was not going to be below the dogs, so Cole kind of cracked. He went from a sweet boy to a 2 personalities freak dog who is snuggling one second and biting you the next. It has gotten better since we found out how to correct our behavior (marginalize him, don't scold him) but the kids don't understand this, so we have had some close calls with biting. He is 12 now, so we are doing our best to keep him until his end, but if his agression worsens, we will have to discuss putting him down. He bites his caregivers - so rehoming him would turn into an agression issue withthe new owners too. Right now, we keep him locked away from the kids - especially when food is out.
Yes - we were dorks and had the dogs in a few of our engagement photos. Cole is in my arms, Ebony with DH *poof*