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I'd name him "Goddammit!".

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Yes crate train him but don't just stick him in and leave him. You need to make it somewhere he wants to be.

Use treats get him to go in there on his own work up close door for a few minute then let him out etc etc. make it pleasurable.

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If I had a corgi I would have to name it Ein.

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Dont worry about him peeing in the same place. It also can takes weeks and weeks and even months to become full potty trained

As someone mentioned before handling food, bones and toys and taking it from him and making sure he doesnt bite...and dont confuse teething with biting...your wife and kids have to do this too....you have a LONG road ahead of you and the more you do now the better he will be later on...the first few months can be rough. But the reward from his unconditional love is priceless...I type this while my year old golden is sleeping to my left and my almost 3 year old Great Dane is to my right. God knows where are kids are...LOL

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Bought home this little pembroke welsh corgi puppy yesterday and still can't figure out a name.  We've narrowed it down to a few names, I'll put a poll up in a second.  

Next, a few questions.  FWIW I know next to nothing about dogs other than what I've read.

1.  The little guy wants to play way more aggressively with me than my wife.  Does this mean anything, or is it something I'm doing?
2.  He's 8 weeks old.  Should we try to crate him yet or is this an exercise in futility?  We put him in the crate last night, he whined for maybe 20 minutes and was out.  Despite being let out several times he still peed on the blanket in there.  We have a play pen for him, should we just put a bunch of absorbent pads down and let him do his thing until he's older and can hold it all night?  Get up to let him out every couple of hours?  
3.  I've seen a few people on here talk about how puppy breath is supposed to smell pleasant... his breath smells like turds (and he has not eaten any turds since we've had him) Is this bad?  He's going to the vet this week so we'll ask but this is contrary to what I've read.

I'm sure I'll have more questions, until then here's a pic:

http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab266/pilotman66/IMG_1608_zps439a3252.jpg

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When people say "crate training" what they usually seem to mean is "I'm going to leave the pup in a crate all day".

All that will do is train him to be happy laying in his own filth. Puppies have small bladders, they have to go to the bathroom a lot. I just got a new pup too, here's what I do and have done with my past pups:

They don't get full run of the house, it's easier to keep bad habits from happening, than it is to correct them once they happen. Puppies are like babies, they are going to teeth chew and pee. And Poop.

I have a puppy proof mud room. When they are tiny pups they have a corral in there. I am also with them in there a lot of the time. I also have older doggies to help out. I keep him in the corral while at work, with a crate. I come home at lunch, let the older dogs out and play with him.

Now he is older so there is no corral, just the mudroom. He can stay in there relatively unsupervised, and use the doggie door. I still have pee pads, sometimes he uses those. I come home at lunch and let the big girls out there too. Everybody can get in and out. I actually have a gate up into the main house, they can see in but the pup can't get in the main house.

If the puppy is tired enough he can come in the main house and play on the couch or bed with the others. I keep a constant eye on him. If he sniffs or if it's been a half hour or so, I pick him up and take him outside. He always pees.  There has only been one or two accidents, I take him out a bunch so he associates peeing with going outside. The problem with little dogs and pups is that the house is big so they will go to the furtherest end and to them that is "outside".  When they get bigger this will no longer be an issue.


At night after play time we go out again, and he sleeps in a crate. If he whimpers at 0130, I get up and take him outside to pee. Actually this doesn't' happen anymore, he can sleep all through the night. He has never peed in his bedtime crate.

I leave for work at 0650, so I get up about 0500, maybe a little later, let magnum (my puppy) out and feed him. We play and socialize with the others. Then the big girls are put up and little magnum stays in the mudroom till lunch when we repeat the routine.

I think corgies are a lot like beagles, stubborn and high energy. Do you only have 1 dog? I've been spacing mine for years now and it really helps. The old ones train the young ones. I have an 11 year old beagle/dachound, and a 4 year old beagle. I got little magnum so by the time the old one is no longer with us Lucy will have a well trained buddy.

Before that I had an older beagle named abbie. When we got lucy it was abbie and blues job to train her. Lucy was a handful. Very high energy. I almost swore off beagles. Magnum is turning out to be a lot more mellow and well behaved than lucy. Lucy was a very aggressive player, but blue didn't seem to mind. We would squeak like we were hurt when she got too rough and she would get the message.



My "roommates" brother and sister in law have a couple dogs, a beagle and little mixed breed. They have always were just put in a crate to "train" them, and kept in the laundry room. They are older dogs now and have never been really trained to behave in the house. I can take mine anywhere and control them. They play with them in the yard a few times a day but even then they are not allowed to act like dogs. They are scolded for sniffing butts, sniffing the grass, or doing anything a dog is apt to do. I don't know why they bother even having a dog. They have a nice fenced yard, they could stay out there themselves for hours and play but they are not allowed.

When magnum goes to get something he's not suppose to have, I take it away and give him one of his own toys. This was really hard when lucy was a pup because she always wanted something she wasn't supposed to have. Luckily we were a member of a dog hunting club so we got tracking collars and let her burn off her beagle energy. Now she is almost 4, she started calming down a lot at 2.

I also try to discourage him from chewing on people. I give him a stick to chew on. Lucy was much worse about this. But even though she was pretty aggressive playing, she has never bitten and is not vicious. Her and blue carry on when they play and make a lot of noise like someone is getting mauled, but they actually are only making noise. If you stick your hand in there, they actually aren't biting at all.


So that's my advice, it's worth what you paid for it.   Here are some pics of my little beagle pack:

My new one, magnum the 13 inch rescue beagle. He is going to be such a good boy. He is bigger now, I need to load some better pics of him.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3950/15755908105_8b4b0e4068.jpg


Here is Lucy. She was a typical redhead. I call her my heart that walks around outside of my body.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3867/14628057198_631b625bf1.jpg


Here is blue and lucy together back in their trailing days.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8329/8120315082_97db958d22.jpg
Blue is the short one, she has dachound in her. She has always been a good girl. Magnum reminds me of her as a pup


Here is Blue, lucy, and abbie
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5615/14980633133_7f073a3ca4.jpg


a more recent one of little magnum. He is supposed to be a 13 inch beagle, like abbie used to be
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8667/15675944980_3b9f1e233a.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7507/15862655932_4090f7c584.jpg



Such a sweet little boy.


Puppies are a lot of work at first, if you want them socialized and well behaved. I keep mine on a routine, it helps prevent bad habits. They get more "privileges" as they mature. Our house is pretty big, we try to block off all the rooms when magnum is inside but it's hard to block off the den. It's going to be awhile before he can be trusted in the house. By a year old though I will have a well trained trustworthy doggie. I can sleep in then, in the meantime I'm sticking to our schedule.

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1) He plays more roughly with you b/c you're male.

2) His crate is too large.  Did it come with a wire screen you can insert vertically to divide it into two smaller spaces?  If so, use it.  If not, it would be worth the expense to buy a second, smaller crate.  Don't expect him to be fully house-trained until he's around 5 months.  His muscles won't be developed enough to "hold it" until around then.

3) I don't understand the appeal of puppy breath, either.  It stinks.