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I had a good chat with an international conformation judge and a Cardi breeder named Bridget and she too is concerned at the dwindling numbers of Cardigan Corgis in parts of the world. In New Zealand, there are currently only two Cardigan Corgi breeders. Bridget said the UK seriously lacks Cardis and some Cardi show clubs in the UK (Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland) are concerned that they won't be able to run championship shows for their breed through lack of numbers and will therefore lose their (the clubs) status. Bridget has recently exported Cardi pups to the UK. But she says that having recently judged in Finland she discovered that there seems to be as many Cardis in Finland as there are Pems. And Corgis are popular in Finland. In at least one of the shows she judged in Finland, there were 20 more Cardigan than Pem entries.
One of the members of the Wellington Welsh Corgi Walking Club got their Cardi named Megs from a pet shop - of course with no papers. Bridget thinks Megs who acts most un-Cardi-like, is probably a Cardi-Pem cross. She and her several brothers and sisters were selling at pet shops as pure Cardigan Corgis and for much more price-wise than Corgis with pedigree papers sell for in NZ.
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