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Old 31-01-2007, 09:44   #43
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Thanks Sherdor, Ness and Paida99 for your most informative explanations. They clear up some aspects of the CSVs situation and standing in France, so dimmed by Frank's posts. It's good that you don't wait and don't 'need more time' do help your wolfdogs develop their full potential as working dogs

Dogs breed very fast - by the time one learns how to breed CSVs on one’s own mistakes he might have “produced” hundreds of dogs with bad HD, wrong proportions, poor character, etc. Ina is absolutely right – every responsible breeder should start doing his/her best here and now, by gathering information, seeking advice, studying pedigrees, health results etc. BEFORE he/she starts breeding. I'm not a breeder myself, but I appreciate professionalism

I think I understand you doubts concerning defence training. Paula, I see your point, but from what I've learnt, CSVs should be trained slightly differently than other breeds (there was a topic about training methods some time ago on this forum). They require experienced trainers who know the specificity of the breed and do not just blindly imitate methods used for other dogs. Thus the help of Czech and Slovak specialists to offer trainer trainings would probably be priceless, but I guess this happens at CSV summer camps? It's probably wiser not to allow defence before a critical number of good CSV defence trainers is available than risk a sight of a CSV jumping to somebody's throat instead of a decoy's arm (as wolves do )
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