Several time I expressed in this newsgroup my anguish for a dog I often found unbearable and my terror at the idea of spending several years with a dog so different from what I thought it was. And that is exactly the problem, and also the answer to the problem: Nuuk is a CSW, not a dog, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT, because I wasn't told so by the breeder.

When I bought her, I had just lost my Newsfoundland dog, dead when it was only seven years old, and as we had seen (me and my family) in a magazine the photo of a dog which seemed a wolf, and as we belove wolves, we decided to buy one. But the breeder didn't tell us that often a CSW is more similar to a wolf than to a dog, neither when we bought her nor after, when we called him for help. And when we decided to give her back, first he accepted and then, after a long trip , he refused to have her back. At any rate, after the first 9 or 10 months, things changed dramatically. Nuuk began to calm down (just a little, not to much) and now she spends a lot of time into the home (before, I couldn't even think of let her inside).Of course I must always be carefull, because she likes eating carpets or pieces of furniture or the toys of the kids, but now I begin to think that we can live with her.

Reading what some of you often write, I think even that Nuuk is quiter than many other CSW, because she never wants to bite people or other dogs. But if I can give a piece of advice to people (clever than me) that before buying a CSW joined this newsgroup to understand what kind of dog is a CSW, let me say that it's very important buying the CSW (if you really want him) by a breeder absolutely honest, wich must explain you exactly what means to live with a CSW and that must also be able to support you after. In other words, you must be absolutely conscious of what kind of friend you are about to buy and that you don't buy a dog, but a wolf for certain peculiar features similar to a dog. If you are really prepared to spend the first months with an animal you often will hate and that will get you crazy, then you 'll get a very clever and wonderfull friend for your life.

Andrea Motetti

PS. While I was writing these lines, Nuuk was sleeping at my feet. I think that in the first seven or eight months, I never saw her motionless for more than 10 seconds. .