Norwegian ban on SW and CzW

XaedasKSP · 23-12-2009, 21:02

Well if you have read some of my last posts, then I have written there that I try to find every possible info on the internet about the SWH and I am trying to find some extra literature about them and how to properly train them. And I hope I will find something. Either way if I wont know how to properly teach the dog regarding some kind of behaviour then I shall ask the breeder or/and ask on the forum below in the wolfdog topic.

As for the time being I am waiting on my pup to become 8 weeks and meanwhile learn everything possible about SWHs. As for finding other owners in Norway well I think this can be rather difficult in the area where I live. I know just about the SWH breeder in Trondheim but its like over 600 kilometers from the place where I live.

And as for the wolfdogs I think that it can only help if there will be many SWHs in Norway. Since it will prove that CSV can be safe too. And I know that there are maybe many opponents of wolfes in Norway (although I have never met one in person only on the webforums) but I hope I wont have any problems with them. If I ever get wolfopponents knocking on my door or meet them anywhere then I shall ofc. ask for your advice as to how to properly respond to them.

And as I said before if you need any help with any political pressure to make the future of SWH and CSV safer in Norway then I shall gladly help. And I shall definitly not be an "irresponsible" owner.

I wish you all a great christmas time, and a wonderful new year!

Per Olav · 23-12-2009, 21:48

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Originally Posted by XaedasKSP

Well if you have read some of my last posts, then I have written there that I try to find every possible info on the internet about the SWH and I am trying to find some extra literature about them and how to properly train them. And I hope I will find something. Either way if I wont know how to properly teach the dog regarding some kind of behaviour then I shall ask the breeder or/and ask on the forum below in the wolfdog topic.

You don't learn by reading on a forum, at the most you get some information which you carefully have to select the importance of by yourself. You learn by the help and supervision of experienced owners or trainers and then practicing what you've learned by your own. There are no Norwegian dog trainers knowing this breed.

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As for the time being I am waiting on my pup to become 8 weeks and meanwhile learn everything possible about SWHs. As for finding other owners in Norway well I think this can be rather difficult in the area where I live. I know just about the SWH breeder in Trondheim but its like over 600 kilometers from the place where I live.

You don't know of any other owners except one living 600 km away, and still you are confident in traing a wolfdog, a breed unknow to anyone but a handfull? And what about quarrantine? If you get your dog from abroad I suppose you have to follow normal import procedures - including rabies testing, quarrantining etc?

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And as for the wolfdogs I think that it can only help if there will be many SWHs in Norway. Since it will prove that CSV can be safe too. And I know that there are maybe many opponents of wolfes in Norway (although I have never met one in person only on the webforums) but I hope I wont have any problems with them. If I ever get wolfopponents knocking on my door or meet them anywhere then I shall ofc. ask for your advice as to how to properly respond to them.

The more inexperienced owners the greater chance for making real trouble for the serious ones. The future of the Norwegian SW's already is fragile.

SWs have been poisoned and killed inside their dog yard. The only breeder ended his kennel some years ago because of the safety of his dogs. Some time ago I was requested by this breeder to host a dog for a newly started SW kennel cause this experienced former breeder did not want to expose the dog and himself for any more trouble by the opponents of the breed. You hardly meet Norwegian SW owners at dog shows and they don't take part in any public discussion or on national foras. Except for one, SW owners of this country do not exist in public. What do this tell you?

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And as I said before if you need any help with any political pressure to make the future of SWH and CSV safer in Norway then I shall gladly help.

Heaven forbid,

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And I shall definitly not be an "irresponsible" owner.

In my opinnon you've already proven to be one. My sympathy to the responsible SW owners of this country.

XaedasKSP · 23-12-2009, 23:20

Well as for the law rules regarding import I have a good overview of them since I have both read the rules from "mattilsynet" and spoken with "mattilsynet" personally about the import. Germany is listed as a rabies free nation so after I give an import declaration to the "mattilsynet" they shall give me an import allowance of a pup below 3 months. So there will be no quarantine etc. The customs need only the paper from the "mattilsynet" that I will get before the import.

If everybody had to relay on other SW owners then there would be only SW owners in Trondheim, but from what I know there are going to be many new SW owners in Norway in 2010 and probably many of them will live far away from Trondheim. So it should be possible by using a proper amount of time, patience and carefullness to properly train a SW. And I am not totally unexperienced since I have about 14 years of experience with a German Sheperd.

And if you say that SW owners dont exist in public well then maybe its the reason why the law is so "unsafe". In England the CSV was banned too and then they took a very public course of action which made the ban lifted. So maybe its something to think about I dont know. The wolfhaters are like 0,1 % of the whole population I think or maybe I have just had the luck of never meeting anyone of them. I think you can find more "rotweiler-haters" in Norway, and still Rotweilers are not in danger of being illegal.

I think that the other reason of not meeting so many SW owners on the foras is that the race is not so well known as the CSV so its not only in Norway but in other countries too that its hard to find any SW forum, it was even hard to find the breeders in Europe (where the dog is not in any "unsafe" position) so the cause is maybe the rareness of the breed too.

If you already think that I am an "irresponisible" owner....well I dunno what you do base this statement upon other than the fact that I think that more publicity about a race and more knowledge will just be good and not bad. I think that most "bans" and quarries between people come from the lack of knowledge and the fear of the "unknown".

I think there are few dog owners that use/will use so much time and effort on their dog and really care about it. And I am not a person that do easily give up when meeting on difficulties. I am not confident that I will do it perfectly or anything like that but I know that with enough effort it should go well and I can always ask both the breeder and other people who own SWs if something is not as it should be.

I think that it could be wiser to think about those anonymous 11 or more new SW owners that will get their dogs in 2010 in Norway than about me. What is hidden from the public eyes is more often the reason of something not wanted that happen. Instead of using your efforts on criticising me because I am going to have a SW, it could be actually better to give some helpful advice......(just dont tell me to resign from buying the dog).

Claressa · 26-12-2009, 04:41

Dear XaedasKSP,

after reading this very long and heavy discussion,
I must say that it seems to me that you just discovered the breed.
For how long time have you really known about the CzW or the SW?
Just by reading this discussion, I am under the impression of that you discovered CzW somewhere in November 2009 and then was seriously considering to import a CsW Illegally to Norway! Shame on you!

And then suddently you discovered the Saarloos, and it seems like you made an reservation as soon as you knew about its existence...

I my opinion this is not responsible, no matter what kind of breed you choose. This is not a decission you should make over the nigth.

14 years of walking the family`s german shepherd don`t automaticly make you experienced as a dog owner. It does`nt really matter how many years you owned a dog or not, it is more about what you experience together with your dog during these years. And what you make of it.

I am not convinced that you have taken enougth time to consider this.

You should respect the knowledge from more experienced owners and breeders, listen to their advice and take them seriously.
Listen their advice and memorize them.

Listen to Per Olav. The situation with both of these breeds in our country is VERY fragile. Owning a wolfdog in such as our country, follows a huge RESPONSIBILITY!

Hope you understand what I`m talking about, despite my kinder-garden english...

Merry christmas to you all & Best wishes for the new year to come..

Best regards,
Steffen

XaedasKSP · 26-12-2009, 05:51

I do know of the responsibility its is something needed when owning any dog not only a wolfdog. As for the advice well here on this forum I havent heard any advice regarding keeping of the wolfdog itself.....

If it goes about my knowledge of the dogs then I have heard about the CSV long ago but didnt plan then to own a dog, so when I decided to get a dog then I did check more info about it and in the end found out that it really is banned in Norway in a way that makes it impossible to own the dog in Norway until it gets legalized. While learning more about the CSV I did also discover the Saarloos and got more info about it. And after reading the breed characteristic I found out that it is very similar to the CSV in character and that some of its traits are even better for me and the place where I do mainly live. Therefore I decided to get a Saarloos. And while I am waiting on my pup to become 8 weeks, I do try to get most possible info about how to properly train a Saarloos so it can be a nice company dog for me and dont get into any "accidents". Ahh and I didnt make the reservation "over night" it took like 2 weeks to find a breeder with wolfgrey pups for sale after a long search through the internet and asking many breeders who didnt have any litters or planned ones soon.

As for the situation of the wolfdogs in Norway, well I think that publicity can only make it better like it did in the UK (some other people do also share this view and for example the Norwegian SW breeder got a homepage where they tell about the SWs, so its wrong to say that every owner of SW in Norway tries to "hide"). But since people got different points of view regarding how to make the situation of SW safer in Norway and unban the CSV then it becomes fast something to argue about.

What I plan to do is to get the legalising of CSV on the list of things to be done by the political party that I am a member of, so they can put this case first in "Fremskritt" (the partys newspaper), then on the "landsmøte", eventually to be voted upon in the Storting. Without going to deep into politics (so I dont get banned again) I can say that FrP care very much about the freedom of the individual so this case of banning a breed and preventing people from owning it with no real reason of doing so will be something that they shall gladly try to solve when they get the proper knowledge about the case. I dont want to talk especially about politics here but since the law is connected with the politics I cant just skip them since changing the law requires political action. I hope the moderator will understand this and dont ban for talking about politics when trying to change a law.

I hope you all have a nice Christmas, and again I wish you all a happy new year!

Rona · 26-12-2009, 12:30

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Originally Posted by XaedasKSP

As for the situation of the wolfdogs in Norway, well I think that publicity can only make it better like it did in the UK (some other people do also share this view and for example the Norwegian SW breeder got a homepage where they tell about the SWs, so its wrong to say that every owner of SW in Norway tries to "hide"). But since people got different points of view regarding how to make the situation of SW safer in Norway and unban the CSV then it becomes fast something to argue about.
!

Dear XaedasKSP,
Though deeply in my soul I think your "case" is hopeless

, I want to make a few things clear, just to have clear conscience in the future:
1. A few months ago I talked with somebody from DEFRA who explained to me very precisely why the ban on wolfdogs in the UK was lifted. I don't want to go into details, but the reasons were entirely different from what you imagine. And unlike you, I don't specatulate what they might have been, but know what they were.

2. If you had spent enough time on reading the forum you would have known that the problems of wofldogs in the UK are totally different than in Norway and wouldn't notoriously be practising "wishful thinking" and speculating about the products of your imagination.

3. Wolfdog.org is a very rich source of information about bringing up pups, about living with wolfdogs - lots of topics on how to train them, how to solve problems, anticipate difficulties, etc.!!! From what you write, one can clearly see you haven't read many threads, if any at all. You complain that people do not help you get informed, but have you asked any specific questions? Have you enquired about anything? So far you've been writing mainly about yourself! Per Olav and other experienced owners and breeders try to get you informed, but your reaction so far has been weird - you keep convincing everyone that you know better! (which sadly, doesn't show in what you're writing

)

Just to give you an example: GSD, CSV and SW are different breeds. Have you read topics about differences among them? There are quite a few good threads on the English and Polish forums. If you had, you wouldn't have stated that you're a potential 'experienced' owner of a wolfdog due to the fact that you owned a GSD

.

5. You write that you studied legal regulations, rules, etc. but people who are older and have experienced more are aware that there is more to life than "papers". Often the 'unwritten' knowledge is more important and more valuable than readings. Noone sane would let a surgeon operate on a patient if his expertise came only from books or reading of a forum for surgeons. Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you?

(Naprawdę życzliwie!!!

)

If Per Olav, who is one of the most experienced, conciliatory, and kindest people on this forum, who has been involved in struggling for the breed in Norway for years now, tries to tell you something, why don't you listen to him? Why do keep arguing with somebody who's trying to save you and your dog from serious troubles in the future? Why don't you appreciate that he's offerring you his time, by explaining the same things again and again? You may not be aware of this, but you sound very arrogant and self-confident in tone, but turn very ignorant when it comes to content. You simply don't know how little you know about wolfdogs

, behave as if you knew everything, but in fact refer only to what you imagine, not to facts!

Nobody here is telling you that you shouldn't buy a wolfdog, but everybody advises you to be patient, to educte yourself, to see the dogs live, to become more aware of what their needs and situation in the country are, not only on paper, but in reality, etc. before you actually get one.

If you are unable to listen to people, who're using your language, how will you be able to listen to your wolfdog, whose communication system is much more subtle and indirect? If you don't listen to you dog, you won't be able to build a sound relationship with him; if you don't, you'll sooner or later be in trouble.This is exactly what some forum members mean, when they say that you're unsuitable owner: you've shown here that you're not a good listener, which is the crucial characteristic of a good wolfdog owner.

I really wish you'd get a wolfdog one day, but remember: wofldogs' main purpose is to teach their owners modesty. We love our wolfish pets, though this "educational process" is sometimes painful in mental and sometimes even physical and economic sense. The 'quality' of the owner can be measured by how he recieves these 'lessons' and how much he is able to learn from them. It's still worse, if the costs have to be paid by the dogs, and this is what Per Olav and Steffen seem to fear most, while you treat their worries as a personal crusade against you.

Please, treat this honest post of mine as a Christmas gift, and reflect upon it before you start "fighting back".

Merry Christms!
Rona

PS. One more piece of advice: if you really care for the wd breeds, keep anything concerned with them, as far as possible from politics, as Per Olav advises you! Show at least here, that youy're ready to learn from the more exeperienced!

Per Olav · 26-12-2009, 13:51

Dear XaedasKSP.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Then I once again do regret your lack of knowing the body of politics and how laws are made.

First of all I apply to you to search once more and carefully study what is available to the public concering the Norwegian Dog Law and its Breed Spesific Legislation - which in this matter mean the reasons why certain breeds are banned. Secondly you should be aware of papers received by others but the decisionmakers do influence the making of laws and third the fact that a huge amount of papers are not available, e g from people on this forum and other foras our Ministry received close to a thousands mails and petions informing of the breeds. Mails and information which influence to the Ministry were less to none.

You also should bear in mind that if not for the knowledge of the spokesman of your Party - a close and dear friend of mine and a breeder of a large breed herself -the outcome of your Party's voting of BSL would be rather unpredictable. Now this MP has resigned from politics and no one can tell which side your party will support if the dog law once again should be debated by our Parliament.

Beeing unaware of the fact that some SW owners are residing in your proximity and do have homepages describing the breed do tell me something of your efforts in seeking and also getting some "in real life" information. Myself I've requested one of them to contribute to this thread, if he decide to do so future will show.

As Rona writes - the "UK situation" is not comparable to the Norwegian one.

and at last - Claressa - a country fellow man of yours has been to the Czech Republic studying the training of these breeds. Fortunately he made up his mind of not possessing one. To my knowledge he is a skilled owner training his dog by the Norwegian Rescue Dog Organization.
--
po

GalomyOak · 26-12-2009, 13:07

I am only an owner...by far, no expert. I have never met a Saarloos before - the high degree of health and breeding issues, and skittish nature described in this breed turned me away from it - not quite as naive, I now realize these things also exist with the CSV - there is a lot of careful work to be done within both breeds. I own 3 adult CSVs, and an 8 month old male - a full brother and sister (different litters) from Finland, a female from CZ, and a male from Italy - same breed, mostly diverse from one another (except for the siblings). When I got my first female, I "broke the rules" and decided to import without visiting the breeder. I had worked with dogs most of my life - and for a short while - wolves. I read, and read, and researched the breed, and the lines of my dogs for 8 months before my first dog arrived. I bought a house and property, and set up a kennel yard in such a way, that even if a dog with the abilities of a superhero emerged from the airplane, I felt confident in my facilities to protect my dogs and neighbors. I spoke with owners in the US - I contacted owners abroad and asked many questons. Last spring, I had the opportunity to travel to Europe, and see many different CSVs, including the parents/siblings of some of my dogs. The breed became a journey for me, not a destination...

Despite all of the research, I still was not completely aware of what I was purchasing...IT CAN'T SIMPLY BE READ ABOUT...Even though most/many CSV personalities embrace the standard, each dog has a distinctly unique set of quirks: some which are positive, some that are very challenging - some that could be dangerous if one did not recognize and address the behavior effectively, and allowed it to escalate - these signs are very subtle, and frequently not at all like a GSD, or any other breed, or even a wolf. And then, there are the oddball puppies who don't meet the standard...I have met CSVs with even stronger and bolder personalites than mine - with the experience, patience, and dedication of their owners, they were really exciting dogs to watch in training. I've met the same type of dog with inexperienced owners...the dogs were time bombs waiting to injure someone because they were not placed in an appropriate home. Experience is not something to only read about...it involves an investment of time, "getting your hands dirty", of money for proper facilities quite often (I can't imagine working with my dogs if they did not have time and space to run SAFELY unleashed with other dogs, and simply "be dogs"), a huge degree of humiliation, and a huge amount of cleverness and discipline to make the dogs realize their full potential - especially in front of critics. Experience must be through observation and practice. The new owner should be settled, with limited possibilites of life changing events that could disrupt healthy ownership - I am 27 - still young - I know firsthand how quickly life changes at our age in this generation. Looking back, I was foolish not to heed the warnings of experienced breeders to meet the breed first, to know it, to see it with objective eyes - and only lucky that I didn't pay some huge price. This is a unique creature with good, but also very difficult qualities...not simply an entity to be possessed someone that adores the wolf, or by someone who doesn't want to be told what to do by "the man".

As I have begun the process of placing my first litter, I can use my own mistakes to learn from, and really reflect on where my puppies should go - but it is still a murky process. I have received over 200 inquiries...thus far, I have turned down about 90% of the potential owners...it's something I think all breeders should think about so heavily....

Knowing what the "right move" is with this breed, in terms of legality, upbringing, feeding, training, breeding - or anything else...is not light or easy. Accidents WILL happen...

I love my dogs and breed immensely...but to love is to accept them for what they really are...and not what we fantacize about, or justify in our mind. We must provide what they really need, even if it means sacrificing our own time, money, or happiness sometimes.

Whatever your future holds...I hope it is successful and prosperous.

Marcy

Claressa · 29-12-2009, 03:10

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Originally Posted by XaedasKSP

I do know of the responsibility its is something needed when owning any dog not only a wolfdog.

Sure, you are supposed to take care of another living creature.
But this is not what I am talking about.
I think Per Olav describing it some better in this post: http://www.wolfdog.org/forum/showpos...&postcount=243

Quote:

Originally Posted by XaedasKSP

Ahh and I didnt make the reservation "over night" it took like 2 weeks to find a breeder with wolfgrey pups for sale after a long search through the internet and asking many breeders who didnt have any litters or planned ones soon.

Haha! Personally I don`t think 2 weeks are any better. If I were you I would at least try to visit a breeder, before making a desision about if I should purschase a saarloos or not. And also I don`t think color should be so important, I think it is more important to find the rigth induvidual suited for you.

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Originally Posted by XaedasKSP

And if you really want to be the hero, why dont you organise a puppy course for wolfdogs.

A littlebit disrespectful I think. In my opinion he already is a hero

No one else that I know of has made such a great effort to avoid or lift the banning. Your doing a great job Per Olav, after visiting your webpage I can see that you also write like a true professional!

Best regards,
Steffen

loup-de-bretagne · 29-12-2009, 21:10

Good luck with your SW pup. It took me six months to find my first one. The Saarloos can be a very difficult dog to live with and not good with strangers or visitors. I had to move house and buy land to walk my dogs on as my neighbours didn't like them at all; even though they always told me how much they like dogs!

The situation in the UK is not very good. Since the change in the law many wolfdogs and cross breeds of wolfdogs have been sold and now a lot of them are for re-homing. People found that they do not suit their 'life style'. Owning one of these dogs means you have to change your life to suit your dog!

Have a good new year 2010.

26-12-2009, 04:41	#4
Claressa Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Rogaland Posts: 4	Dear XaedasKSP, after reading this very long and heavy discussion, I must say that it seems to me that you just discovered the breed. For how long time have you really known about the CzW or the SW? Just by reading this discussion, I am under the impression of that you discovered CzW somewhere in November 2009 and then was seriously considering to import a CsW Illegally to Norway! Shame on you! And then suddently you discovered the Saarloos, and it seems like you made an reservation as soon as you knew about its existence... I my opinion this is not responsible, no matter what kind of breed you choose. This is not a decission you should make over the nigth. 14 years of walking the family`s german shepherd don`t automaticly make you experienced as a dog owner. It does`nt really matter how many years you owned a dog or not, it is more about what you experience together with your dog during these years. And what you make of it. I am not convinced that you have taken enougth time to consider this. You should respect the knowledge from more experienced owners and breeders, listen to their advice and take them seriously. Listen their advice and memorize them. Listen to Per Olav. The situation with both of these breeds in our country is VERY fragile. Owning a wolfdog in such as our country, follows a huge RESPONSIBILITY! Hope you understand what I`m talking about, despite my kinder-garden english... Merry christmas to you all & Best wishes for the new year to come.. Best regards, Steffen Last edited by Claressa; 26-12-2009 at 04:43.

26-12-2009, 13:51	#7
Per Olav Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 395	Dear XaedasKSP. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Then I once again do regret your lack of knowing the body of politics and how laws are made. First of all I apply to you to search once more and carefully study what is available to the public concering the Norwegian Dog Law and its Breed Spesific Legislation - which in this matter mean the reasons why certain breeds are banned. Secondly you should be aware of papers received by others but the decisionmakers do influence the making of laws and third the fact that a huge amount of papers are not available, e g from people on this forum and other foras our Ministry received close to a thousands mails and petions informing of the breeds. Mails and information which influence to the Ministry were less to none. You also should bear in mind that if not for the knowledge of the spokesman of your Party - a close and dear friend of mine and a breeder of a large breed herself -the outcome of your Party's voting of BSL would be rather unpredictable. Now this MP has resigned from politics and no one can tell which side your party will support if the dog law once again should be debated by our Parliament. Beeing unaware of the fact that some SW owners are residing in your proximity and do have homepages describing the breed do tell me something of your efforts in seeking and also getting some "in real life" information. Myself I've requested one of them to contribute to this thread, if he decide to do so future will show. As Rona writes - the "UK situation" is not comparable to the Norwegian one. and at last - Claressa - a country fellow man of yours has been to the Czech Republic studying the training of these breeds. Fortunately he made up his mind of not possessing one. To my knowledge he is a skilled owner training his dog by the Norwegian Rescue Dog Organization. -- po Last edited by Per Olav; 26-12-2009 at 17:21.

26-12-2009, 13:07	#8
GalomyOak Howling Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 436	I am only an owner...by far, no expert. I have never met a Saarloos before - the high degree of health and breeding issues, and skittish nature described in this breed turned me away from it - not quite as naive, I now realize these things also exist with the CSV - there is a lot of careful work to be done within both breeds. I own 3 adult CSVs, and an 8 month old male - a full brother and sister (different litters) from Finland, a female from CZ, and a male from Italy - same breed, mostly diverse from one another (except for the siblings). When I got my first female, I "broke the rules" and decided to import without visiting the breeder. I had worked with dogs most of my life - and for a short while - wolves. I read, and read, and researched the breed, and the lines of my dogs for 8 months before my first dog arrived. I bought a house and property, and set up a kennel yard in such a way, that even if a dog with the abilities of a superhero emerged from the airplane, I felt confident in my facilities to protect my dogs and neighbors. I spoke with owners in the US - I contacted owners abroad and asked many questons. Last spring, I had the opportunity to travel to Europe, and see many different CSVs, including the parents/siblings of some of my dogs. The breed became a journey for me, not a destination... Despite all of the research, I still was not completely aware of what I was purchasing...IT CAN'T SIMPLY BE READ ABOUT...Even though most/many CSV personalities embrace the standard, each dog has a distinctly unique set of quirks: some which are positive, some that are very challenging - some that could be dangerous if one did not recognize and address the behavior effectively, and allowed it to escalate - these signs are very subtle, and frequently not at all like a GSD, or any other breed, or even a wolf. And then, there are the oddball puppies who don't meet the standard...I have met CSVs with even stronger and bolder personalites than mine - with the experience, patience, and dedication of their owners, they were really exciting dogs to watch in training. I've met the same type of dog with inexperienced owners...the dogs were time bombs waiting to injure someone because they were not placed in an appropriate home. Experience is not something to only read about...it involves an investment of time, "getting your hands dirty", of money for proper facilities quite often (I can't imagine working with my dogs if they did not have time and space to run SAFELY unleashed with other dogs, and simply "be dogs"), a huge degree of humiliation, and a huge amount of cleverness and discipline to make the dogs realize their full potential - especially in front of critics. Experience must be through observation and practice. The new owner should be settled, with limited possibilites of life changing events that could disrupt healthy ownership - I am 27 - still young - I know firsthand how quickly life changes at our age in this generation. Looking back, I was foolish not to heed the warnings of experienced breeders to meet the breed first, to know it, to see it with objective eyes - and only lucky that I didn't pay some huge price. This is a unique creature with good, but also very difficult qualities...not simply an entity to be possessed someone that adores the wolf, or by someone who doesn't want to be told what to do by "the man". As I have begun the process of placing my first litter, I can use my own mistakes to learn from, and really reflect on where my puppies should go - but it is still a murky process. I have received over 200 inquiries...thus far, I have turned down about 90% of the potential owners...it's something I think all breeders should think about so heavily.... Knowing what the "right move" is with this breed, in terms of legality, upbringing, feeding, training, breeding - or anything else...is not light or easy. Accidents WILL happen... I love my dogs and breed immensely...but to love is to accept them for what they really are...and not what we fantacize about, or justify in our mind. We must provide what they really need, even if it means sacrificing our own time, money, or happiness sometimes. Whatever your future holds...I hope it is successful and prosperous. Marcy __________________ "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."~Henry David Thoreau http://www.galomyoak.com

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23-12-2009, 21:02	#1
XaedasKSP Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skien/Oslo Posts: 83	Well if you have read some of my last posts, then I have written there that I try to find every possible info on the internet about the SWH and I am trying to find some extra literature about them and how to properly train them. And I hope I will find something. Either way if I wont know how to properly teach the dog regarding some kind of behaviour then I shall ask the breeder or/and ask on the forum below in the wolfdog topic. As for the time being I am waiting on my pup to become 8 weeks and meanwhile learn everything possible about SWHs. As for finding other owners in Norway well I think this can be rather difficult in the area where I live. I know just about the SWH breeder in Trondheim but its like over 600 kilometers from the place where I live. And as for the wolfdogs I think that it can only help if there will be many SWHs in Norway. Since it will prove that CSV can be safe too. And I know that there are maybe many opponents of wolfes in Norway (although I have never met one in person only on the webforums) but I hope I wont have any problems with them. If I ever get wolfopponents knocking on my door or meet them anywhere then I shall ofc. ask for your advice as to how to properly respond to them. And as I said before if you need any help with any political pressure to make the future of SWH and CSV safer in Norway then I shall gladly help. And I shall definitly not be an "irresponsible" owner. I wish you all a great christmas time, and a wonderful new year!

23-12-2009, 23:20	#3
XaedasKSP Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skien/Oslo Posts: 83	Well as for the law rules regarding import I have a good overview of them since I have both read the rules from "mattilsynet" and spoken with "mattilsynet" personally about the import. Germany is listed as a rabies free nation so after I give an import declaration to the "mattilsynet" they shall give me an import allowance of a pup below 3 months. So there will be no quarantine etc. The customs need only the paper from the "mattilsynet" that I will get before the import. If everybody had to relay on other SW owners then there would be only SW owners in Trondheim, but from what I know there are going to be many new SW owners in Norway in 2010 and probably many of them will live far away from Trondheim. So it should be possible by using a proper amount of time, patience and carefullness to properly train a SW. And I am not totally unexperienced since I have about 14 years of experience with a German Sheperd. And if you say that SW owners dont exist in public well then maybe its the reason why the law is so "unsafe". In England the CSV was banned too and then they took a very public course of action which made the ban lifted. So maybe its something to think about I dont know. The wolfhaters are like 0,1 % of the whole population I think or maybe I have just had the luck of never meeting anyone of them. I think you can find more "rotweiler-haters" in Norway, and still Rotweilers are not in danger of being illegal. I think that the other reason of not meeting so many SW owners on the foras is that the race is not so well known as the CSV so its not only in Norway but in other countries too that its hard to find any SW forum, it was even hard to find the breeders in Europe (where the dog is not in any "unsafe" position) so the cause is maybe the rareness of the breed too. If you already think that I am an "irresponisible" owner....well I dunno what you do base this statement upon other than the fact that I think that more publicity about a race and more knowledge will just be good and not bad. I think that most "bans" and quarries between people come from the lack of knowledge and the fear of the "unknown". I think there are few dog owners that use/will use so much time and effort on their dog and really care about it. And I am not a person that do easily give up when meeting on difficulties. I am not confident that I will do it perfectly or anything like that but I know that with enough effort it should go well and I can always ask both the breeder and other people who own SWs if something is not as it should be. I think that it could be wiser to think about those anonymous 11 or more new SW owners that will get their dogs in 2010 in Norway than about me. What is hidden from the public eyes is more often the reason of something not wanted that happen. Instead of using your efforts on criticising me because I am going to have a SW, it could be actually better to give some helpful advice......(just dont tell me to resign from buying the dog).

26-12-2009, 05:51	#5
XaedasKSP Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skien/Oslo Posts: 83	I do know of the responsibility its is something needed when owning any dog not only a wolfdog. As for the advice well here on this forum I havent heard any advice regarding keeping of the wolfdog itself..... If it goes about my knowledge of the dogs then I have heard about the CSV long ago but didnt plan then to own a dog, so when I decided to get a dog then I did check more info about it and in the end found out that it really is banned in Norway in a way that makes it impossible to own the dog in Norway until it gets legalized. While learning more about the CSV I did also discover the Saarloos and got more info about it. And after reading the breed characteristic I found out that it is very similar to the CSV in character and that some of its traits are even better for me and the place where I do mainly live. Therefore I decided to get a Saarloos. And while I am waiting on my pup to become 8 weeks, I do try to get most possible info about how to properly train a Saarloos so it can be a nice company dog for me and dont get into any "accidents". Ahh and I didnt make the reservation "over night" it took like 2 weeks to find a breeder with wolfgrey pups for sale after a long search through the internet and asking many breeders who didnt have any litters or planned ones soon. As for the situation of the wolfdogs in Norway, well I think that publicity can only make it better like it did in the UK (some other people do also share this view and for example the Norwegian SW breeder got a homepage where they tell about the SWs, so its wrong to say that every owner of SW in Norway tries to "hide"). But since people got different points of view regarding how to make the situation of SW safer in Norway and unban the CSV then it becomes fast something to argue about. What I plan to do is to get the legalising of CSV on the list of things to be done by the political party that I am a member of, so they can put this case first in "Fremskritt" (the partys newspaper), then on the "landsmøte", eventually to be voted upon in the Storting. Without going to deep into politics (so I dont get banned again) I can say that FrP care very much about the freedom of the individual so this case of banning a breed and preventing people from owning it with no real reason of doing so will be something that they shall gladly try to solve when they get the proper knowledge about the case. I dont want to talk especially about politics here but since the law is connected with the politics I cant just skip them since changing the law requires political action. I hope the moderator will understand this and dont ban for talking about politics when trying to change a law. I hope you all have a nice Christmas, and again I wish you all a happy new year!

29-12-2009, 21:10	#10
loup-de-bretagne Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 10	Good luck with your SW pup. It took me six months to find my first one. The Saarloos can be a very difficult dog to live with and not good with strangers or visitors. I had to move house and buy land to walk my dogs on as my neighbours didn't like them at all; even though they always told me how much they like dogs! The situation in the UK is not very good. Since the change in the law many wolfdogs and cross breeds of wolfdogs have been sold and now a lot of them are for re-homing. People found that they do not suit their 'life style'. Owning one of these dogs means you have to change your life to suit your dog! Have a good new year 2010.