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Originally Posted by saschia
Well, all of us hope that not.
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The problem with CzW seems to me the problem of genuity and sincerity. You can't fool a CzW. If the owner is an active person, who does sports, works outdoors and/or would spend much time on various external activities anyway- CzW would easily adapt to his paricular life-style, accompany the master and find pleasure in "working" whatever one understands under this term. And would instinctively try to fit itself in the activities of the pack and "serve" to his/her best abilities since it loves being active and has fantastic energy and lots of stamina. I imagine CzW could be a great working dog with rescue teams (however much more independant than other dogs), sportsmen (runners, swimmers, skiers), geologists, etnologists, soldiers, etc. maybe even sheperd dogs (under specific conditions?). And training the dog in these spontaneous conditons is rather easy due to CzWs' natural working instinct. Great results may be obatined just by food reinforcement and praise ( e.g. see the photos of Akim in the mountains and in the sea)
But training them just for exam results is probably hard (I've never tried), because the "pragmatic" element seems to stronger in CzW than other dogs that are more mentally dependant on their owners and perform tasks just to please them...
That's why it is so hard to specify the exact "sport" or "work" CzW are good at - they're good at what members of their "packs" are keen on.
