[michaelundinaeichhorn]

Dear Philippe,

I just read in some literature I can´t remember (maybe Dog breeding 2000 from
Professor Helmut Wachtel, Austria, maby something by Trumler)that very many wolfe
hybrids tend to get their litters earlier then wolfes in Dezember, January.
In wolfes the social interaction in the pack is essential for spermproduction of
the males and for getting in heat of the females. Even when our alpha-female
normaly gets in heat every eight month, she normaly has a short heat in between
without a ovulation when our Irish wolfhound bitch gets in heat before her (she
follows the normal 6 month terminal of housdogs) and I know that it is a big
problem in breeding csw-bitches that live without a male ore that are dominated
by another female, because they don´t get to ovulation in the normal time ore
they interrupt their heat bevore and start all over again later. So even if they
don´t follow wolfe´s cycles they are a lot different to normal dogs.
I don´t think the whole problem has anything to do with training abilities.

Best regards Ina