Well I can say about our 5 CSW that all of them guard and protect without being trained for it but they mostly started this behaviour when they were almost grown up. All of them bark though not a lot (what we wouldn´t allow anyway). They come with us to ervery place we go and travel a great lot all over Europe, doing this they sleep in the car. They do a lot of filmdog work under difficult conditions without any problems.
I do a lot of mantrail training with three of them, mainly my youngest one Falin Zlatá Palz. She and her mother Gerda did exams of the Swizz mountain rescue and Falin will be into professional work on this about end of this year if everything works out as planned, our trainers are very satisfied.
In general I think this kind of work and every rescue work is the field they can be really some of the best. But you can use them for every kind of dog sports, they are allrounders.
They need a trainer that is able to adapt his training to the specific dog and doesn´t follow fixed shemes. For me they are very easy to train because I get bored very quickly and I appreciate their very high learning ability, but trainers that want to follow their rules can´t cope with them and their work very often ends not being succesfull because the dog refuses the work.
BUT to be a good companion a wolfdog has do undergo a straight, consitently training, has to be socialised properly, has to learn to stay alone, has to be taken out to many different situations and surroundings and all of this in a higher amount than common breeds.
They are very lively and active, they hate to be left out. In the first two years they can be real pain in the necks and they will stay like this if you don´t fit their needs. They have a lot of very funny ideas and you will need a lot of humor to cope with them.
Ina
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