Welcome to Cordwood Corgis!
We raise purebred AKC Pembroke Welsh Corgis and CKC American Corgis on a small farm in northeastern Kansas. Our puppies are family pets and are loved and held from the day of birth. Our breeding dogs are genetically tested to rule out the common Corgi diseases. Puppies are raised free-range on a primarily raw meat diet in a beautiful natural environment.
Hello! We are Tasha and Aspen. We fell in love with Corgis reading Tasha Tudor’s classic Corgiville children’s books (highly recommend). We live in a tiny house surrounded by woods and our animal companions: three Corgi dams and a sire, two older husky dogs, calico cats, horses, and the wild creatures in the forest. We are passionate about health, earthen building (you can see the “cordwood” building we built by hand on the gallery page), and a lifestyle that encourages us to live close to nature. And, of course, beautiful Corgis.
We enjoy living in a small rural community next to a creek with a gaggle of children and animals to keep us working and playing hard. Raising Corgi puppies teaches us deep lessons about the cycles of life, the miraculous process of birth, and about loving and letting go. It’s also just a whole lot of fun!
Get to know us
Our Commitment to Happy, Healthy Pups
Our deeply held values of honesty, kindness, and respect for God’s creation shape how we treat our animals and how we do business at Cordwood Corgis. Our goal is to supply healthy, beautiful, ethically-raised Pembroke Welsh and American Corgis to loving families.
We believe the foundation of canine health is a quality diet with plenty of fresh food. Our puppies are fed raw meat and high-quality, meat-based dog food. Mama eats a raw meat, high-fat diet while nursing, boosting milk production and ensuring thriving puppies. Puppies have plenty of room to roam and grow up on dirt and grass, not in concrete kennels, making housetraining easier. They are held often from their earliest days by big and little hands and socialized by our older dogs and cats. We use toxin-free, natural tick and flea preventatives and vaccinate according to the safest and most effective protocol we have found (see “FAQ” below for details). Puppies receive a full health check by our licensed veterinarian before you take them home. We are so confident in our puppies’ health, we offer a 1-year health guarantee upon adoption.
FAQs
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Staying small allows us to provide the lifestyles and diets closest to dogs’ natural preferences. While we don’t slight larger breeding farms for keeping their dogs in kennels (ten or twenty high-energy Corgis running free is not a sustainable situation!), having only 3-4 dogs means ours get to live the free-range lifestyle that dogs love. It also means including plenty of fresh meat in their diets is affordable. Our puppies are never kept in cages. When they’re old enough, they move from the whelping box to the outside, where they love exploring the new smells and sounds and textures of the world: digging in the dirt, chewing on sticks, rough and tumble play with their littermates. Along with all the time we spend holding and playing with them because we just can’t resist it (who could?!), nature provides all the “early neurological stimulation” (look up ENS) puppies need. We keep it simple and natural here and the greatest reward of that is seeing how happy our dogs are.
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Yes. Although there are no guarantees in life, our genetic testing of our breeding dogs shows that your puppy will not be affected by the most common Corgi genetic diseases. We share the genetic tests of puppies’ parents with you before you adopt. Click here to see the genetic diseases we test for.
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Yes. If you live within 3 hours of our farm, we will deliver your puppy or meet you halfway if you cover our gas expense. We can also fly our puppies to you with our in-house flight nanny, Ando, who enjoys flying pups around the country and seeing new places. We arrange the flight and add the cost to your puppy price (the cost of the flight plus the pet carry-on fee, which is $100-150 for most airlines). All you have to do is meet your new baby at the airport!
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Yes! We enjoy having visitors and encourage you to pick out your puppy in person, although we ask that you take some precautions when you arrive (wearing covers we provide over your shoes and washing hands). We are very careful about protecting our precious little ones from any possible exposure to parvo.
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Yes. Zooming with us and your potential puppy is a great way for you to get to know us and us to get to know you. It can also assure you we are the real thing and not one of those scammers the internet is full of, and allow you to pick out your puppy if you live too far away to visit in person.
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Yes. We follow the vaccination protocol developed by Dr. Jean Dodd, DVM, who is an expert in canine vaccinations. We have found that single vaccines given a week apart are more effective and also safer for young puppies, so we give a single parvo vaccine (NeoPar) at 7 weeks and a single distemper (NeoVac D) at 8 weeks. Vaccinating earlier than 7 weeks is not ideal given that very young puppies’ immune systems are underdeveloped and that the mother’s antibodies can interfere with vaccine antibodies, making vaccines less effective. Click here to learn more about Dr. Dodd and her approach to canine health. To see her vaccine protocol, which we recommend you continue to follow after adoption, go to our Blog page. We are also willing to work with families who prefer to vaccinate using nosodes.
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Great question. Click here for the step-by-step process.
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Tri-colors and bluies are $1200.
Merles are $1500.
Fluffies of any color are $2000.
We try to price our puppies affordably, as we want them to be accessible to all sincere Corgi lovers who can show they will provide a good home.
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Yes. Our dams are AKC-registered purebred Pembroke Welsh Corgis, and our current sire, Louis, is CKC-(Continental Kennel Club) registered as an American Corgi. The AKC, the most prestigious canine association in America, does not recognize American Corgis, which is why Louis is not registered with the AKC. This is no insult to Louis—it simply means the AKC does not have a standard for the emerging American Corgi breed, which is a mix of Cardigan with Pembroke Corgi, usually bred to produce the gorgeous merle coat pattern, since Pembroke do not carry the merle gene. We register our litters when they are whelped (born). Once you adopt, we will help you register your puppy in your name if you wish to.
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No. We do not microchip our dogs because we consider their risk of being lost on our land to be very low and because we prioritize our puppies’ health over all else. Microchipping can cause inflammation and, rarely, even tumors in susceptible dogs. It also helps us keep our prices affordable. Microchipping is simple and safer to do once puppies are older. It is a choice we will leave up to you.
Get in Touch.
Interested in a Cordwood Corgi, but still have some unanswered questions? We’d love to hear from you!