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Originally Posted by draggar
We socialized Pollux as much as we could.
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I didn't mean you were not socializing Pollux corectly. On the contrary I said earlier in some other thread that I appreciate you are doing so much for him. But I also remember a thread from the times when Sara's friend was getting him where several people from various parts of Europe were mentioning that CW gives great looks, but rather versatile characters - you have to be lucky to get a good
dog for sports from that particular kennel. (BTW I don't have any experiences with CW dogs so it wasnt' me who made those remarks!).
Here I was talking in general terms. E.g. I know a very shy, wolfish vlcak female from a very nice litter with great genetics coming from a very good and caring kennel. Her sibilings are open and cooperating. Her skittishness, as you call it, is obviously caused by bad socialistion and negligence on the side of the owner.
I wanted to make a point that not always only the breeder should be blamed for the dog's poor character... On the other hand I also know dogs of several other breeds with similar problems - shyness and other wolf characterisitics are not typical solely for vlcaks!
One thing is sure:
shyness, according to the CSV standard is a vice, not a breed characterisitc
I found your post very worrying, because people who know little about vlcaks and come to this site and then read that
CSV are like wolfdogs/hybrids get a very false impression!
Vlcaks should be vlcaks - there is a detailed breed standard and the fact that certain number of individuals don't meet it, due to various reasons, does not automatically mean the breed is similar to wolfdogs or wolf hybrids with random mixture of genetics.