One comment by side: the standard is based on the WOLF.
If you know Wolves you know some are a little bit bigger, some smaller, some lighter, some darker, some have longer coat, some very short. But Canis Lupus (exception: dogs) is very homogeneous species - all of them look almost the same. Why? Because the Mother Nature created them. During thousands of years of evolution the Natur created perfect body which is able to live in all conditions and all places on earth.
The founders of this breed specified additionally exactly how a typical CLC should look like - like Carpathian Wolves which are very similar to each other and it is easy to say which CLC is typical and which not.
Do you think someone have the right to say: "I know better how a CLC should look like?", "I'm sure dog with such angulation and such body is better creation than real wolf?" and "I breed better (other) type of CzW"? Everyone from us knows already a famous case where pride breeders "knew better" how the dogs should look like. They though they were also more clever than the founders of the breed - I mean breeders of German Shepherd Dogs. They also created "better" type. And the results is: ailing dogs where you can see whole palette of genetic faults. Modern GSD have nothing to do with Stephanitz idea - now they are just wreck and travesty of the "real GSDs"...
We don't want to make this mistake. The real CzW should be healthy (no HD), tough (short body with wolfish angulation(!) and long legs), with quick reactions (light body), resistant to weather conditions (rough coat with thick wool), fearless and courageous (never with tail between legs!). And there are many additional features which make CLC and wolves better and healtier than other (dog) breeds.
If someone want to change the standard on his own way - no problem. But such dogs will be not recognize as "CLC line of the breeder XXX" but as "CLC of not typical exterier"...
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