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Originally Posted by Kerstin
Hello Wolfpup
it depends on what kind of sports do you want to do and how you will train your dog. For obedience for example a CSW is the wrong choice.
It is much easier with other dogs, which does not mean a CSW can not be succesful in obedience. They can- but it taks much more nerves and effort and ideas from your side to teach him.
This is because the loose intererst very quickly and are bored doing the same staff over and over again. They look for anything else then. My one loves Agility for example, but not every day. And not in the same direction all the time.
She jumps on/off/over anything I show her but it needs to vary. She hates doing the same things.
Personally I think if you like to make sports a CSW ist the not the right dog for you- if you want a dog who is with you anywhere anytime for a long long time, than a CSW could be yours.
Regards from Germany,
Kerstin
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Thank you, Kerstin.
We live in a time where dogs like pointers no longer point, retrievers no longer retrieve nor swim, and shepherd dogs are reduced to mere showdogs and robots. These once great working breeds still carry a name to denote their functions that now they no longer deserve. All because of vanity, ignorance and greed. Even Stephanitz had stated the importance of maintaining the true character of his founded GSD breed, never to do constant repetitions of the same exercise as it paralyzes the mental powers of the dog, and to train and judge his breed as service dogs and no other. Very very rare will you find a GSD or a Mal that has been kept and trained real. Most of them have been bred and trained for sports or in the case of the GSD, for show.
I am then more thrilled than ever with the CzW as it very much bear the characteristics of the past working dogs that I'm looking into this creature, the CzW (which has more or less 20% wolfblood), to infuse vigor into the GSD to get them back to what they were before, and to adopt a training method (which I do now) that has made these dog historically famous and useful to man, in both war and peace. I believe that percentage of wolfblood would produce pups with same or lesser ratio as Horand (said to have 1/4 wolfblood, and Pollux, whose maternal grandmother was a wolf in the Stuttgart Zoo), and thus would bring back the intelligence and workability this breed has been noted for, as well as to correct the physical failings now plaguing the breed. I myself still maintain some dogs resembling the past dogs that I intend to breed with wolfblood.
I hope I can be helped. Best regards...
Al
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