[Michael Romanos]

I don't think where the puppy is dong his toilet is the problem. And I don't think his shifting to a new environment/away from his mother and sibblings, at eight weeks is a problem. Afterall this age is the most common of all and is a ritual carried out by a majority of the most experienced of breeders.
The breeder is the key to all this because he/she/they know something of the puppy before he departed and they know the pup's parents and grandparents ie background. Maybe the shy nature of the pup is coming out after a kind of honeymoom period. Dogs act in different ways to this. And I agree with someone who said to give the puppy lots of space so that he comes round eventually when he wants to and not have things forced upon him in order for him to react the way he has done so. Play his game or play to his rules and he should bend eventually by gaining the confidence he needs to in order to "come round."
Don't smother him, it will only make him want to 'climb up the wall.'


When my Taylor has something he really really wants and it is not detrimental to him or something we are not in play together over, I let him alone. If he feels ownership protection of whatever it is, so be it. In that way he has satisfaction from a dog's point of view but he would most certainly know if it was an emergency situation whereby I wouldn't stand for any resistence - and that's where the leadership thing comes into it.

Corgi pups at 8 -16 weeks should get a lot of sleeping but intersperced with four feeds daily, toileting, playing and a little bit of training. I always trained my pups from the first week for conformation showing in mind so that at 16 weeks they'd be ready and able for puppy competition. I think up to 18 hours sleep or rest is ok.