Subliminal dominance - shy Wolfdogs

[Pavel]

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).

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

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.

Absolutely agree. CsW have in gens the wolf behaviour, of course. But
read the standard, from wolf have not the shyness. Standard says :
"Lively, very active, capable of endurance, docile with quick reactions.
Fearless and courageous. Suspicious, yet does not attack without cause.
Shows tremendous
loyalty towards his master. Resistant to weather conditions. Versatile
in his uses.".
"Suspicious" is the most important word in this case. Many owners change
the suspiciously by shyness. And its a basicaly fault.

More i believe, it´s a problem of not enough socialisation in early age of the wolfdogs, and not enough of attention and training. With our breed, the basics of it´s character are made before two, maximally three months of it´s age. 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.

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. Why ? Because
the socialisation is by our
dogs most important thing, exactly how Mirka wrote. Other problem is,
how the people keep the CsW. Of course, if is dog whole day locked in
kennel and only 1 time in the day go out with owner to walk, then cant
be waiting good socialisation. CsW have very strongly pack instinct and
about it must the owner always think. Second possible fault is, take a 5
week old puppy from breeder and let him free on the garden with other
dogs. Its a other extrem. Puppy will be good socialisated on dogs, but
not on the human.
And training have a big role in this socialisation and education
process. The puppy would be visiting a dog school very soon as possible.
Not for pure training (8 week puppy, cant be trained in this sense), but
for the "aclimatisation" - means other word for "socialisation". Puppy
is between other strange dogs and other strange people. See, that the
dog must listen own owners, see the activity in the school, hear the
different sounds etc. Come with 2 years CsW first time to training is
little bit late. For some individuals is it no problem, but mostly is
too late for some big successes.

Pavel