[quote=Michael Romanos]
Your lady acquaintance is absolutely wrong. There is nothing about a Corgi that's Terrier.
Well not exactly accurate. When Pembrokes were first shown in the United States they were a part of the Terrier Group. They were later moved to the Working group from which the Herding Group was split.
>The Pem's are part of the Spitz family of dogs with the other half of them >being the same as the ancestory of the Cardigan Corgi.
Not according to some of the early histories I've read. It is believed among some that they were interbred with some terrier for ratting purposes. And except for the limited time the two breeds were interbred (and there isn't much evidence that was done extensively) I've not come across the two corgis sharing common ancestry.
>Corgis are farm working dogs with their major farming stake being in their >ability to herd.
Generally speaking they were required to be all round farm dogs. They guarded boundaries, ratted and dispensed of other vermin, brought in stock and played with the Welsh farmer's children.
>There is simply no Terrier aspect (personality etc) to a Corgi that I can >think of - just by looking at them one knows instinctively that they don't bear >comparison.
Well I can think of one - attitude. These are roughly 25 pound dogs bred to move cattle (and from the description of the Welsh Blacks given by a Welsh Cardigan breeder not particularly easy stock) and the corgis won. That in itself pretty much sums up the breed.
Debbie