Luna`s mum, now you gave the answer why csw differ so much in behaviour, the mix of genes. And now you know why italians csw are much more doggie like than the rest of the "pack" because the "right" breeders do much more and faster selection than the others simply because they do more litters and can choose always the best and doggie like animals.
Sorry, Ina if you would read "The keeping of wolfdog-hybrids in Great Britain" - it is from 2000 - you would notice that it is not a question of "hard" selection but truely a selection of course of tame, friendly, open, not aggressive and not shy animals. The workabilities are not interesting, only for military. Other wise Great Britain never would say in his laws that from F 3 on every wolfdog is a dog! The netherlands say the same. And in italy is the law that from F 2 you do not need permission - so because it is dog.
And as I wrote, I do not know, how the character of Rep was, but it seems to me that he was a nice guy. Otherwise I would not know why he was bred so often.
Out of Stephanitz, The german Shepard, edition from 1921, page 10:
"There live naturefriends between us, who have much tame, wilddogs, espicially wolves, used to streetlife in big cities and who claimed that is nothing difficult to get used them to do that. Such tame "wilddogs" - Stephanitz calls wolves wilddogs - learn to bark, show their feelings to their owner or other family members in the same way like normal dogs do."
And on page 45 you can see a german shepard leashed beside a wolf, like two dogs!
Very interesting!
Nice weekend to everybody.
Christian
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