 When the Kennel Club created their list of Vulnerable Native Breeds in 2006, the Cardigan Welsh Corgi was among those breeds. This list is for those breeds which register less than 300 dogs in any one year; there had been 84 Cardigan Corgis registered in 2006. After an initial increase, this declined to 46 in 2010 but then rose to the highest numbers since the list began in 2015, with a total of 124 puppies registered. In 2013, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi was also added, as there had been only 241 puppies registered that year. While the Kennel Club blamed this on the importation of foreign dog breeds, The Daily Telegraph blamed the decline on the ban on tail docking introduced six years prior. However, 2015 saw an increase of 34 % in the number of Pembroke registrations with the popularity of Corgis on Instagram credited for the change. Pembrokes were subsequently removed from the Vulnerable Native Breeds list in 2016.
