[Villulv]

This is a nice story and i would want to know more about the subliminal dominance techniques.

Me too.

But I think, that it is impossible to compare pure wolves and wolf hybrids with a dog breed like
CW and SAS. I can't talk for Saarloos, but CW's are normal dog breed with up to 30% of wolf
blood, which are simply more receptive to shyness and they need special attention.
I had been this weekend at CW summer camp and i was again surprised, how many wolfdogs
there were shy and problematic. I also noticed, that the most shy dogs were usually those of
owners from other countries than Czech Republic (excepts dogs of Margo and Przemek).

What could possibly be the explanation of this? Are Czech people more aware of what they want out of their dog and what they get when they buy a wolfdog? A problem with these kind of breeds must be to avoid to let "wrong" people getting these dogs.

What a luck, that i personally know the same number of wolfdogs, who are normal and
not shy at all, and are trainable and well behaving.

Not shy at all? Referring to what is stated above, they are "more receptive to shyness and need special attention", and that must be an unavoidable and very sound heritage of the pure wolf.

I have been thinking about reasons for this, and still i am not sure. Maybe in other countries
are different rules to treat the dog? I can't believe that the problem would be only in the dogs.

What about different habits and tradition for treating "macho" dogs? Here in Sweden lots of the GSD and Rotweiler people treat and train their dogs either not at all or quite dominantly, with very little knowledge of wolves or dogs in general and their needs and behavior.

More i believe, it's a problem of not enough socialisation in early age of the wolfdogs, and
not enough of attention and training.

Very likely. The lack of competence in our dogowners is severe. But that would mean that Czech dogowners would be more aware of the importance of this, and I wonder what would be the explanation of that? What can we do to learn from the Czechs?

With our breed, the basics of it's character are made before two, maximally three months of it's age.

And that is a fact for any breed, I would say...that far from the wolf isn't any dog. We would have much less problemdogs altogether with more knowledge and interest of breeders and owners. People looking for a puppy should be more careful of choosing the right breeder than they usually are, probably due to lack of competence with the future dogowner. My oppinion is that the Kennel Clubs and/or authorities unfortunately aren't enough concerned with educating, controlling and following up the breeders nor enlighten dog owners, maybe because they themselves lack in competence?

With education and training, you can continue to form the character of the dog up to one year of age, but after this .. no big changes.

My oppinion is that it is POSSIBLE to form a dog at any time of age - but it is certainly much easier at early ages, the same goes of course for any mammal, f e humans. I usually don't train dogs over two years of age, because the outcome is more indefinite.

Sanna