Please complete a separate survey for each Pembroke you own, who has had a diagnosed condition during 2025. Please include conditions still ongoing during 2025, even if they were diagnosed before the start of the year.
THE SURVEY IS ANONYMOUS.
Link to survey: https://www.welshcorgileague.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/healthsurvey25.xlsx
The UK Kennel Club health team have decided that our breed now sits within category 2 for Hip Dysplasia testing
This means that although Hip scoring is not yet mandatory, it should be considered best practice to test all breeding stock and have the results submitted using the KC / BVA Hip Dysplasia scheme
Your health coordinator has asked for a comprehensive list of approved vets but that has not been provided.
Any BVA registered Vet is able to submit X-Rays as part of the scheme, however it might be a good idea to check they have experience with the positioning of similar dwarf breeds as your Health coordinator understands that correct breed-specific positioning for Corgis is of utmost importance.
Your health coordinator has also asked what scores might be considered acceptable in breeding stock (bearing in mind scoring is recommended but not mandatory as yet) but has not as yet received a reply.
The new health standard for Pembrokes will be published by the year end.
Breed Club Health Co-ordinators have received information about a new survey from The Kennel Club - please see below:
We’re getting in touch to make you aware of The Kennel Club’s new online survey, which aims to improve our understanding of prevalence and types of spinal (neck, back or tail) problems affecting different pedigree dog breeds.
The survey has been developed to gain insights and identify any breed-specific nuances that may influence the development of spinal problems. The results will inform and direct future research to areas that require further attention.
Please click on the link below to complete our survey, which is open to all dog owners, regardless of breed and whether they have now sadly passed away. This survey is open to all dogs, even where a dog has never faced spinal problems.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/spinalBHC
The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
The survey is being managed by The Kennel Club. All personal information provided will be kept confidential and be presented anonymously. For further information regarding this survey, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
After two years of the revised calculations of the points system, it was suggested that the Stud Dog and Brood Bitch calculations still did not fairly address the number of winning progeny a pair had produced. After much discussion and various options put forward, the points for The Formakin Stud Dog and The Coronet Brood Bitch Cups will be as from January 2024 calculated as follows:
At Championship Shows where CCs are on offer for the breed
This has proved to be a fair and tested model for the Our Dogs Top Stud and Brood Bitch competition, I’m sure it will be so for the League, All other points remain the same.
The annual Pembroke Corgi Breed Health survey results have now been published: https://www.welshcorgileague.org/breed-health/
It’s been a sad year for the families of a number of Corgi enthusiasts and even more so this week.
So very sorry to learn of the death, peacefully at home, after several weeks’ ill health of our senior Pembroke person Sue Harrison, and all our thoughts are with John and the family.
Sue had been part of the Corgi community since the 1940s when her father Fred Hooke bred and showed under the Roseleigh affix. The best known dog he was connected with was a CC winner called BelleFavourite who can be found in the female line behind some of the most famous Pembrokes.
Young Sue went to work at the famous Wey kennel of Nan and Ken Butler, an ideal apprenticeship in all aspects of breeding and showing at this busy and beautifully managed establishment.
In the late ‘50s Sylvia Watts-Russell, whose Banhaw kennel had its first champion pre-war, was seeking to extend her Pembroke activities. The two families had known each other for many years and Sue went to live at magnificent Biggin Hall near Oundle to manage the kennel and handle the dogs. Chs Banhaw Dawn and Chaffinch were made up, and Renard and Golden Prince became champions for other exhibitors. Two of these were sired by Banhaw Bendigo of Corgay, bred by Sue’s sister Mo. There were many more winners until Mrs Watts-Russell died in the late ‘60s and the kennel was dispersed, Sue taking on Ch Chaffinch.
In due course Sue married John and they ran a farm in Leicestershire. She bred Bearded Collies for a while and her current Pembroke line began with Fitzdown Frolic from Jessie Fitzwilliams.
Sue’s best known dog was the smart rich red sable Ch Haresfoot Isaac and there were many other winners down the generations, plus champions overseas. In latter years Sue was one of the breeders who was keen to retain the bobtail in the breed and bred with this in mind. She was always concerned to keep the Pembroke workmanlike and fit for function.
I’m sure that the successes this year of new exhibitor Anjie Cutts with Haresfoot Fates Align will have given her great pleasure.
Sue had been a popular judge for many years, officiating at Crufts and other leading shows. She knew her own mind and one could always rely on a fair and totally unbiased opinion.
She served the League loyally, including as chairman and president, and in recent years she and John had run the merchandise stand, no mean feat especially at Crufts where lugging all the material into the show on dark, cold mornings was quite a task.
The Pembroke world, and the League in particular, has lost one of its best friends.
The funeral will be private.
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For the people of the United Kingdom, and for many others overseas, the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II is hard to take in. For all or most of our lives she had been our figurehead and her sense of duty was an extraordinary example to us all.
But for Pembroke Corgi enthusiasts in the UK and beyond, her loss carries a special resonance. It was her family’s purchase of two Pembrokes, Dookie and Jane, in the mid 1930s that was to a large extent responsible for a previously little known Welsh farm dog becoming familiar to everybody and reaching remarkable levels of popularity.
Some years later Susan joined the family and founded the Windsor dynasty of Pembrokes which continued for some 70 years. The Queen’s loyalty to, and obvious love for, her favourite breed must have convinced countless members of the public of the qualities we all know the Pembroke possesses.
Although she never chose to exhibit her own Pembrokes, she took a deep and serious interest in the breed’s progress and selected stud dogs carefully, a number of breeders over the years being asked to travel to Windsor with the chosen males.
She enjoyed meeting other Pembroke enthusiasts, and taking a Corgi with you was a surefire way of drawing Her Majesty’s attention during her ‘walkabouts’ on her tours at home and abroad. In recent years there were a number of Corgi walks on royal estates and when members of the East Anglian Sub-Section visited Sandringham a few years ago, she spent a happy hour chatting to them and admiring their dogs. Nor should we forget that she, her mother and sister spent some time at one of the League’s first championship shows back in 1946.
I know that all League members will want to pay their own tributes to the breed’s longest-standing supporter and will send sympathy to all the Royal Family.
SIMON PARSONS, Welsh Corgi League president
The annual Pembroke Corgi Breed Health survey results have now been published: https://www.welshcorgileague.org/breed-health/
THE LESLIE PERRINS MEMORIAL TROPHY
For the Pembroke Welsh Corgi of the Year.
Miss NL & Mrs CB Blance’s Ch. Bill Me Later
THE HERDEN TROPHY
For the Runner-Up Pembroke Welsh Corgi of the Year.
Mrs K & Miss TJ Irving’s Ch. Twinan Shake The Tree JW
THE CH. BELROYD NUTCRACKER TROPHY
For the Dog or Bitch winning most Challenge Certificates during the Year.
Miss NL & Mrs CB Blance’s Ch. Bill Me Later
THE CH. ROZAVEL RED DRAGON MEMORIAL CHALLENGE CUP
For the Best of Breed at the League's Championship Show each Year.
Mrs K & Miss TJ Irving’s Ch. Twinan Shake The Tree JW
THE BEST PEMBROKE DOG TROPHY
For the for Best Pembroke Corgi Dog of The Year.
Miss NL, Mrs CB Balance, Messrs B Shelton, & S Layerlys’ Ch. Am Ch. Coventry Colin The Shots (Imp Usa)
THE CH. PENLIATH SHOOTING STAR TROPHY
For the Best Pembroke Corgi Bitch of the Year.
Miss NL & Mrs CB Blance’s Ch. Bill Me Later
FORMAKIN STUD DOG TROPHY
For the leading Stud Dog of the Year.
Miss T Maddox Ch. Redfordhill Magic Moments to Salvenik JW (Imp DK)
CORONET BROOD BITCH CUP
For the leading Brood Bitch of the Year.
Mr BJ & Mrs S Coulson’s Woodhenge Storm Princess
TROPHY IN MEMORY OF THELMA GRAY
For the Best Puppy of the Year.
Miss NL & Mrs CB Blance’s Trouble In Black
Mr BJ & Mrs S Coulson’s Woodhenge Star Commander
THE BEST VETERAN TROPHY
For the Best Veteran of the Year.
Not Awarded
