[z Peronówki]

Mirka, let me know to little bit comment your opinion. Its true, that
percentage of shy CsW is higher in other countries outside CZ and SK.

You forgot Poland - the percentage of shy dogs here (from 16 CzWs we have
;D ) is even lower

But by us is number of this problematic CsW relatively high as well.

This number is proportional to the number of people which have no idea about
what they are buying. In some countries where the main information about
this breed is missing people are buying a CzW instead of buying a wolf. They
even do not try to their their dogs...

But read the standard, from wolf have not the shyness. Standard says [...]
Suspicious" is the most important word in this case. Many owners change
the suspiciously by shyness. And its a basicaly fault.

Not only many owners. Speak with the breeders - some of them are telling a
CzW can be shy because it has wolf in it.
There is also something other: the better-known breed is Saarloos Wolfhound.
It's older, almost all judges know their breed standard. And they are trying
to judge Czechoslovakian Wolfdogs the same way ... but a Saarloos, as
written in the stardard can be shy, and can run away from a stanger. For a
CzW it a huge fault. A CzW can be only "suspicious".

One of this problem is, that in some countries is practically no
possible to take a puppy before his 8th week. Its generaly regulation of
FCI. In CZ our kennel club understand our specify situation and
tolerate, when the new owners take a puppy in 5th week.

It's old "good" topic. We are just working on it on one of the polish
mailinglists. The are different points of view. Some of them are telling the
best time is 8th week. Other people will not sale a puppy until it is 10
week old or more. But I see amost all CzW picked up so late are shy and they
need much more work and more patience than other puppies (it is the reason
why the breeders sending us info about their litters want to sell puppy at
the age of 6 weeks).

Because the socialisation is by our
dogs most important thing, exactly how Mirka wrote. Other problem is,
how the people keep the CsW.
Pavel

But we can't forget:
- the breeders...
.... and where the puppies stay whole day before they go to their new
owners. Some of them keep puppies in the kennels and they see their breeder
only while feeding time. Behind it they do not have any contact with other
people or dogs. On the other end we have breeders which keep puppies only at
their home. Sounds good but such puppies are also not good enough socialised
as the puppies from a kennel. Only a puppy which had contact with strange
people, dogs and sound can be later a good dogs and we will not have to work
on fault a breeder made when the puppy was 3, 4 or 5 weeks old...
- the parents of our puppy...
... some dogs come from good breeder, have a good owner but will never be so
good as other dogs. And that's because of the character of their father or
mother. If you see different litters, different lines you can see the
character of the parents (or its parts) mirrors in their puppies. Sometimes
even very good socialisation is not enough...

Greetings,
Margo