If the conclusion of the scientists is correct, and this is the basis for our present breeding plans, this indicates that the homozygote puppies are absorbed early in the pregnancy and never will be born . The bobtail/bobtail matings will represent no problem to the breeders other than that the litters will statistically be numerically smaller, as statistically one out of four will be absorbed. In stead of expecting three out of four bobtails, with one being homozygote, one can expect two out of three, and all the bobtails will be heterozygote. In our statistic material of number of puppies in bobtail/bobtail litters produced in Norway/Sweden compared to longtail/longtail or longtail/bobtail litters there is no statistic significant decrease in number of puppies.

This of cause can be explained by the different fertility of different bitch lines, and does not exclude the possibility of the bobtail gene being a lethal gene. Our aim, in time to produce only bobtail pembroke corgis seem to be impossible. There should, however, be no reasons for not doing bobtail/bobtail matings, other than a possible ethical view that one will not produce a litter were there is a possibility that one or maybe two of the puppies will be absorbed in mothers womb, and never come to life. There should be no reason to expect any physical defects resulting from bobtail breeding either bobtail/bobtail, or bobtail/longtail.

The Scandinavian countries were the first to have the docking ban, and the breeders here have been leading the way in seriously trying to breed the bobtails back into the breed. Over the last ten years many more countries have got the docking ban imposed on them, and many corgi breeders in many of these countries have joined the Scandinavian breeders in their wish to maintain their short tailed corgis.”