Please lets stay sober in this difficult situation. I am sure there is more than one single point of view to this case. Do we see a cultural contrast here? Western europeans emphasize on purity of a breed. Our fancy for shows and exhibitions and the particular interest in the surface of the matter. Racism??? We better be careful.
Today "registered purebred dogs" havent been around until the last hundred years or so. Sometimes we seem to forget what a dog is, what it constists of, and what made and constructed it.
It was not conservatism and puretanism that created our breed. Those conservative people, like german shepherd folks, protested against our breed in the beginning. It is the crossing of "races" that made the vital, forceful Checkoslovakian wolfdog. It waas the openminded and freethinking men that created both the Checkoslovakian and the Saarloos wolfdogs. Despite puretanian protests!!!
All breeds need an outcross now and then. The question is how to do it. FCI has no practice to go by. Thats why breeders and breed-clubs have done this in disguise. Other animal-breeders (horses, cats, farm-animals &.c) do this regularly in a constructive way.
So what I trie to express here is that we should be a little modest in our criticism. Even in the early history of GSD breed-experience shows that wolf-blood is stabilised in a few generations of breeding. To quote Hr Stabel from G. Horowitz book on "The Alsatioan WOlf-Dog": ".....how easily a wolf can step into the pedigree of Alsatians without causing all those terrible phenomene which are considered to be the result of crossing with a wolf". He gives an example of a hybrid wolf (whose granddam was a wolf) who absolutely had the temperament of a sheepdog; who was obedient and faithful, and the pet of the house. He tells that this is a striking example of how quickly all trace of wolfs blood is lost in a domesticated breed.
I beleive Mr. Hartl and his friends know what they do - and to have a separat line with "mutara"-heritage isnt thad bad ??? You dont have to use it if you dont like it. The "mutara"-blood will quickly be diluted in a few generations. I guess the creators of the Checkoslovakian wolfdogs regret that they didnt take better care of the different lines from the different founder-animals. It seem to me that the breeding favoured a too limited strain out of too small number of founder dogs / wolves.
fenris
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