Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Pembrokes need regular exercise for mental and physical health and tolerate both short and long walks, with sensible limits.

Pembrokes are intelligent, easily bored, and need regular involvement with their family or purposeful work.

The breed is intelligent and easily trained, although its active mind needs continued engagement.

The breed is bright and bossy; consistent training and management are important to prevent alerting, herding, or self-directed behavior becoming a problem.

Typical Pembrokes are outgoing and very people-oriented and do poorly with little human contact.

Pembrokes can live successfully with children, but running can trigger herding and heel nipping that adults must consistently manage.

Many Pembrokes live closely with cats and other pets when introduced and socialized appropriately; small cage pets require extra caution.

Pembrokes shed routinely and can shed their undercoat in prodigious amounts during seasonal coat loss.

Daily combing and brushing helps control shedding, with more frequent work required during major undercoat loss.

Pembrokes are highly alert and readily announce unusual activity; consistent teaching is needed to stop barking after the alert.

Herding movement and farm-dog ratting behavior create meaningful chase or dispatch risk around running children and small cage pets.

The parent club advises avoiding extreme heat and providing cool fresh water after exercise.