On invitation of the Breeder´s club of Czechoslovakian wolfdog in Italy (C.A.L.C.), a "delegation" of our Club joined the 1. National (Club) exhibition of Czechoslovakian wolfdogs, which was held on September 5, 1999 in a mountain town Serramazoni at Modena. Most of the participants arrived on Saturday 4th September in evening. We stayed opposite to a beatiful park, where the exhibition was held. A visit of the one and only working breeding station of Czechoslovakian wolfdogs in Italy was arranged for the members of our Club on Saturday. The co-owner of the station is Mr. Fabio Caselli also co-organised the whole event (our members know Mr. Caselli from the Club exhibition 1999, where his bitch Ariska winned the young class). Unfortunately, it was raining whole Saturday and it looked very unluckily for us. There was a dinner organised together with the Italian members of the exhibit in the evening.

We woke up into a cloudy day on Sunday, but luckily it was not raining. The sun started to shine during the day and the exhibition proceeded at nearly ideal weather. The exhibition started at 10 A.M. and even one hour before the start it was sure, that the event will have a great importance. At the exhibition area was already about 60 dogs and yet still other kept coming. The final count ended at number 60. From this reason, the exhibition in Serramazoni belongs among the most occupied CsW exhibitions in history.

The wolfdogs were acessed in two circles, in one bitches, in the second dogs. The dogs were judged by Ing. Karel Hartl, the bitches by Ing. Monika Soukupova. Invited was also the Italian referee Mr. Silvio Rivolta, which was teached and helped by Ing. Hartl. The requirements to the referees were hard, in both circles were always 10-15 participants. Anyway, the judgement proceeded quickly and without problems. After judging the dogs in the circles and after a necessary break, the program continued on the festive stage, where the puppies and breeding pairs were judged.

After this, the whole event ended in declaring the winners of the classes and declaring the best dog, bitch and the winner of the exhibition. The quality of the displayed wolfdog showed that, as Ing. Hartl said in his acessing of the exhibition, Italy has enough quality dogs for starting succesfuly their own breeds. Unfortunately, some of the participants were first time on the exhibition and it was seen, that they do not have enough experiences with displaying their dog. Hovewer, everybody gave his best and I suppose, that the next Club exhibition will have a better level again.

In the summary is possible to say, that the exhibition was prepared very good and the organizers had no problems. I am sorry, but I have to mention two things, which made some troubles. The first one was a lack of discipline of some of the participants, which were not able to clean their dogs excrements. The organizers did their best, there was a cleaning team running on the place and there were also dutspans for "self-service" cleaning. The second thing was a bad evidence of participants, which registered themselves after the deadline of the catalog. Luckily, none from these woldogs wasn´t present in the acessed places in the individual classes.

It is necessary to say, that the exhibition was a big succes, and that disproved all the doubts about the work of the Italian club. We can only hope, that a similar event will take place in next years again and that we will meet its participants on the exhibitions at us and in foreign countries too.

P.S. Because of the language barrier, the big succes of the exhibition is also the work of Sarka Matrasova and Viktor Kudlacek, which helped as the interpreters during the exhibition and also after it.