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Its depend what you call working, all my dogs are working dogs because I use then for work in many ways, but still I never had pass in a working test with then, because in 2 years we had only 2 working tests in my state, and I was not here for make my dogs pass when it happened, so I have no way to proof it officially.
I have 3 wolfdogs comes from 3 very different breeders, and all from very diferent lines, and I can assure you that my 3 dogs are amazing working dogs, in truth, one of the most versatile breed I ever meet in my life!
I'm not talking here about sports, where you can even make a fake title of IPO making the test in your own garden, or training the dog for bite the glove nicelly, maybe making the dog bite their "own glove" or make defence with their "own helpler"  I'm talking here about WORKIG, it means that if my dogs failed, probably I will pay this fail with my life.
I had some oportunities to see my wolfdogs in action, and it was simply amazing, I saw VERY equilibrate dogs, which know how to react, and have body strong enough and able to do what they need.
CzW is a real working dog, but don't wait of him a nice sport dog, so, two different things.
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Paula, i don't know your dog's but "amazing working dog" is hard to say on GSD, and other work breed..only a few can named "amazing workin dog"..are dogs than save people on many situation, find drug's and explosive, assistant to police on public event like concert or sport match, assistant blind...
IPO and other titles are nothing if i can't see the dog work with my eyes, to have IPO with electric collar is nothing! I want to see IPO dog's with other dogs, at show, at home, in the city. IPO dog must be IPO dog not only on training camp!! CZW can be, and i say: "MUST BE" a work dog, but now, sorry but i don't agree with you, CZW is a dog with huge potential to become a Work dog, is not now a work dog, is necessary to select and fix good gene's heritage for delete many features of CZW. 90% OF (bonitation code) dogs have although latent and hidden, the mistrust towards the man, and if you work on defense you can see this clear. This is not good for work, rescue dog must trust on man on all condition, also extreme! This is very hard for CZW. Work dog must have only small competitiveness agaist other dog's, CZW have for wolf heritage (and GSD too, of course) high competitiveness with other dog's. CZW work very well with his brain, collaborating with owner, work dog work much more mechanic (but i would like than CZW will work on his style!!).
Czw have big potential like a rescue dog, especially surface rescue research, for his strong body, high resistance and his nose, and especcialy for his capacity to seak for long time comparison other work breed...but many edges of character must be round off, and for this is necessary excelent character selection...
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Character test of bonitation, Slovak, Czech, independent of where it is, only select the extreme cases, and its already ok, better than nothing.
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I'm agree with you, i'm the first to say in Italy :do bonitation is a duty!! I'm not for breed without nothing, like a many italian people, my consideration is not on this mean!!