KatieMac88 - 2018-04-03 8:32 PMMy parents got a lab pup when I was 1 and they said it worked out great. I loved it because I cannot remember a life without dogs - I’ve always had them. So I’m leaning towards getting one next spring when our daughter will be close to a year. Thoughts?

jake16 - 2018-04-03 7:39 PM

 only you will know when the time is right.babies take up alot of time and attention.Who knows what will be going on in your life in a year.good luck.just think of the day the baby didn't sleep at all and you finally got him or her down for a nap,you've desperately waited to get some sleep...oh boy the puppy needs out,better yet,puppy starts barking and wakes baby up...no sleep,no rest.lol

want2chase3 - 2018-04-03 8:40 PM

Puppies are A LOT of work.. if you plan on house training them, I know plenty who purchase a fancy purebred pup just to toss it outside and let them wander. All my dogs are inside /outside dogs, so I house trained them right from the get go! And it's the closest thing to having a human baby as you can get lol! (Minus, the crate) those pups need to go potty every few hours till their bladders mature. We are fixing to get 2, yes, TWO lab puppies, one will be for Jacobs benefit and the other was donated to Jacob.. I'll be responsible for both babies for a little over week anyway... it's been quite a while since I've had a puppy, I'm prepping myself for the up every few hours whimpering stuff! But I'm kinda excited too, I love puppies but they require a ton of work at first

Nita - 2018-04-03 8:16 PM

I think you may be experiencing some pregnancy hormones and concentrating too much on hugging the fluffy pup, lol... but, seriously, a new baby AND a new puppy would be too much work for me! But, like someone else said, only you will know when the right time is.

cecollins0811 - 2018-04-04 7:15 AM

We had an older Corgi of my husband when I had our first child. We didn't think much about it besides knowing once the baby was old enough to crawl around we'd have to keep a watchful eye on the dog. She didn't do to well with little kids either. Just a month or so after the baby was born, that Corgi attacked one of our dachshund pups because she had gotten too territorial with her food. Sadly the pup died, and my husband decided he couldn't have a dog like that by our baby. I mean, what could've happened if I wasn't paying 100% one time to where the baby was crawling and that Corgi decided she didn't want the baby playing with her food or toy? It was a hard decision but we still believe it was the right one.

Now, I'm think if you had a Corgi pup gowing up with a baby then it would be a different situation. Then that Corgi would be so used to ears being pulled and who knows what lol. That's what we did with our Golden Retriever and our second child, and even though I know Golden's are great family dogs, I helped her out even more being a good dog to our little girls.

Griz - 2018-04-04 5:54 AM

My step daughter got a Cane Corso (sp?) while she was pregnant and I thought it was THE dumbest thing she could have done, BUT, it turned out AWESOME! She now has 2 kiddos and that dog is a SAINT who LOVES those kids. I was totally amazed.

kmfunk22 - 2018-04-04 10:04 AM

Like others have pointed out, only you will know when you're truly ready to replace your lost Corgi with a new one. But in my experience, babies and puppies generally don't mix.

I've been volunteering at animal shelters since I was in junior high, and I've seen SO many dogs dumped at shelters because of time constraints and the dog and child not mixing. I'm NOT saying you would do that to your dog, I'm just saying I saw it all the time. Most of the time when people tell me they want to get their baby or small child a puppy so they can grow up together, I tell them to adopt an older dog that's proven to be well behaved with small children. One of my friends recently bought a lab puppy for her children who are 2, 3 and 6. It is not going well. The puppy is now 5 months old and has zero manners because neither parent has time to work with it between work and raising the children. The puppy jumps on the kids which scares them, it chews on their clothes and toys which makes them not like it, and now the poor thing is basically outside all day with nothing to do and no one play with because the parents don't have time and the kids quit liking the dog as soon as the novelty of owning a puppy wore off. It's an all too common scenario.

Also, most of the dogs we've had on bite hold at the shelters I've worked at were herding breed dogs. They can be nippy. Something else to keep in mind.

kmfunk22 - 2018-04-04 10:04 AM

Like others have pointed out, only you will know when you're truly ready to replace your lost Corgi with a new one. But in my experience, babies and puppies generally don't mix.

I've been volunteering at animal shelters since I was in junior high, and I've seen SO many dogs dumped at shelters because of time constraints and the dog and child not mixing. I'm NOT saying you would do that to your dog, I'm just saying I saw it all the time. Most of the time when people tell me they want to get their baby or small child a puppy so they can grow up together, I tell them to adopt an older dog that's proven to be well behaved with small children. One of my friends recently bought a lab puppy for her children who are 2, 3 and 6. It is not going well. The puppy is now 5 months old and has zero manners because neither parent has time to work with it between work and raising the children. The puppy jumps on the kids which scares them, it chews on their clothes and toys which makes them not like it, and now the poor thing is basically outside all day with nothing to do and no one play with because the parents don't have time and the kids quit liking the dog as soon as the novelty of owning a puppy wore off. It's an all too common scenario.

Also, most of the dogs we've had on bite hold at the shelters I've worked at were herding breed dogs. They can be nippy. Something else to keep in mind.

Chandler's Mom - 2018-04-04 8:56 PM


Luca came to us because he was headed to the shelter. He's a purebred Siberian Husky, simply gorgeous; everyone says it not just me as the momma! But he was purchased as a puppy to be a "babysitter" to four boys under the age of 7. (We got him when he was 8 months.) The lady who made that brilliant decision hopefully didn't have any more kids cause I'm not sure what their next babysitter would've been. . .

When Chan was just big enough to walk, Tristan, our "mutt", would herd him---if he started towards the road (our house is about 60 yards from the road), she would angle him back to the house. He never made it more than 10 or 20 feet from the front porch before she guided him right back to me! I picked her up off the side of the highway when I was pregnant, and she paid me back tenfold over the 13 years I had her.

Chandler's Mom - 2018-04-04 8:56 PM


Luca came to us because he was headed to the shelter. He's a purebred Siberian Husky, simply gorgeous; everyone says it not just me as the momma! But he was purchased as a puppy to be a "babysitter" to four boys under the age of 7. (We got him when he was 8 months.) The lady who made that brilliant decision hopefully didn't have any more kids cause I'm not sure what their next babysitter would've been. . .

When Chan was just big enough to walk, Tristan, our "mutt", would herd him---if he started towards the road (our house is about 60 yards from the road), she would angle him back to the house. He never made it more than 10 or 20 feet from the front porch before she guided him right back to me! I picked her up off the side of the highway when I was pregnant, and she paid me back tenfold over the 13 years I had her.