Everything is true what is written here but I wanna add a thing. I have a female and male csw. The female has let us say short coat. She lived 3 years in the house and then 2 years in enclosure because in the new house was to small for 9 dogs. So Myla got in this two winters much more coat. And as Margo wrote, it became thicker, a bit longer but not really "wolfish" long. On the other hand I have Tala. His lines are from fathers side italian. He has much coat. He even does have in summer. In winter much more of course. My personal experience is that the italian dogs have more coat than the rest of the "pack". Funny thing is that in italy it is not so called like in the rest of middle/northern countries. So they managed to breed more the long coated wolfish looks. That looks from my point of view nicer. The only problem is that these dogs "suffer" more in the heat of the summer. But czechoslovakian wolfdogs does not change so "dramatically" their coat like wolves do. You see of course differences, but Wolves got in winter much more coat than in comparison a csw. I do not talk about expception which surely exist in csw world too.
It is a question of genetics which kind of coat the animals will have. You can test it before with the upcoming parents if you want to breed in the one or the other way. Today all is possible.
Christian
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