[Shelly]

I have a 12 yr old female I got from a rescue 4 years ago and I bought a 5 month old male from a breeder 1 1/2 months ago. I think it may have been too much of an age gap. Still she tries to stay away from him. He tries to love her to death licking her ears, trying to kiss her, his recent thing trying to herd her by nipping at her constantly. She puts him in his place when she loses her patience but hasn't ever bit him or anything worse. I think in time it will work out. Taking it from the other perspective, I think having the older one around to teach the pup how to be a dog, and socialize him is wonderful. She's a wonderful role model. The pup has ALOT of bounce in him and the older one is really laid back so she just wants to be left alone. I looked for months prior to buying the puppy for a corgi through rescues, pounds, the internet, and the right one just wasn't available so finally resorted to a breeder. It'll work out. Good luck. As for housetraining, it's been 1 1/2 months and mine still has accidents at least once a week and I'm home all day letting him out hourly if he doesn't go through the doggie door and take the initiative himself. Housetraining does take patience and time. One of the best things about adopting my rescued first corgi was that she was housetrained and that crazyness of a puppy had gone (but then I do wish I'd known her then) ~Shelly