[Huan]

Hi,

But the issue of the look like a European wolves is difficult too, isn't it?
There are the Italian wolves, those guys are very small and skinny. The ones they are in Siberian are stronger and taller. And what about the German shepherd look?

Margo was not specific enough. For creating the breed was used exactly one
subspecies of European Wolves: Canis lupus lupus. To be even more exact it
was one type of Canis lupus lupus: the wolves are called Carpathian Wolves
and leave in middle Europe (Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Ukraina and some time
ago in Czech Republic). You can find some photos of Canis lupus lupus or
American wolves that are similar to this subspecies in wolfdog.org gallery.

I ask, because I always fall in love with the CzW, there are the rather
thin ones and do not have the German shepherd look. But I'm not sure if that really counts to the CzW standard. Can you tell me?

Every characteristic that is typical for German Shepherd like strong
angulation of legs, black mask, too heavy head (with open lips) or slopping
topline are considered a fault by Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. In general the
more a specific CzW is similar to the Canis lupus lupus the better in
regards to breed standard the CzW is. In one point the standard summarize
even that CzW should look like a wolf.... Unfortunately it's not specified
that it should be similar to Canis lupus lupus subspecies and people may
have incorrect image about perfect breed representatives looking at US grey
or arctic wolves.

But don't worry Margo is preparing a commentary to the breed standard that
will soon be published on wolfdog.org website that will exactly describe
every single part of perfect CzW body building and exterieur. The commentary
will be based on breed standard, original writtings of Mr. Hartl and Mr.
Rosik and on scientific researches of Prof. H. Okarma who published a unique
monograph of wolves living in Poland and Slovakia (which are Canis lupus
lupus). So be patient ))

Greetings,
Przemek