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Provided we don't get the chance to get a pet quality female puppy from a breeder, we will have to decide upon a male because we want a puppy in June so my almost 12 year old can train the puppy in the summer.

I've only had females dogs and don't know if there would be problems having a male. I wanted a female because all of the neighbor's dogs are males.

Question of curiosity: At the end, our female had wet in her crate. Can a male pee laying down, or do they have to stand to lift their leg?

Does gender matter on wanting a puppy that snuggles? We hope for a snuggler because that would be different personality from the one we lost, who would rather chase the ball, than get a petting.

Are boys always bigger than girls? Having a two story home, being the elevator for the last two years of our old corgi's life, I appreciated her 25 pound weight. I'll be in my 60's on this next one's senior life and thus won't be able to handle hauling a 35 pound dog. 35 pounds is my lifting limit right now. Course my husband says to join him lifting weights. Are runts the smaller regardless of gender?

Are boys more apt to run away? My female would run towards someone with food, otherwise she didn't stray during the times we were gardening and could watch her off the leash.

Do both hunt well? My female was the hero of our neighborhood in San Diego when she killed off the ground squirrel family. She was skilled at digging down to the gopher runs, here the vole runs, so I could set a trap. For all you don't kill a creature people, voles harbor the plague fleas and seeing our squirrels suffering and decimated by the plague in 2005 got me setting the traps. A surprise rain the end of the summer gave the squirrels a bath and they are thriving again, but so are the voles looking at my destroyed iris's. I'm planting day lillies now.

All input on gender is appreciated.

Merrie