The concrete goals of these endeavours will be then individual. Somebody will want to make exams with the dog, maybe even to join some competitions, other one will be satisfied with "controllable" dog, which will fulfill the needs of family pet.

Important is, that the princip of working with the dog is in both cases the same. Try to manage to "get into the skin" of your wolfdog and to learn to think little bit like a dog (I highly recommend to learn about the etology of dogs) and if you add the basic rules of the training, later you will be able to use practically these basics just according to the needs of your four-legged friend, including the different situations, you can meet.

As the last word - unfortunatelly i still hear from the owners of the dogs, that the training should start in their age of six months, or even later (I truly don't know from where they get this information, maybe some "special" book ?). If you have a chance to visit a training place, don't hesitate to take there your puppy as soon as you can - it will meet another people, who like dogs (which doesn't have to be the ase of people on the street), another dogs and they will start to accept the training place like a place, where they can play and experience new things. They will learn to look forward to go there and when you will want it to work "seriously", they won't connect the training place with a "training displeasure" in negative sense, which often happens with older or adult dogs, which come to training place only to be calmed down.

Helena