Name of breed

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Originally Posted by LKO

I would just like to say that I think the name "Chechoslovakian Shepard" ( Please forgive the spelling) would be a more appropriate name for this breed. Since it is only a small percentage of wolf, and that would remove all the negative connotations of "wolf" from the name. I'm certainly not suggesting the name should be changed, but I wonder if it had been named "Shepard" instead of "Wolfdog" it might have been easier gaining acceptance.

But with changing the name we will get even bigger problems than lack of acceptance. I already saw that there is no bigger problem to get people to like CzWs if we will show them CzWs are nice, trainable and with good character. Some years ago we had the same problem in Poland. Everyone heard CzWs are horrible and aggressive. Everyone said: "if you want a nice wolfdog which can be used for training, you should buy a Saarloos". But we didn't give up. We showed our dogs on meetings, shows, wrote articles, a.s.o. People also saw Saarloos Wolfhonds on the shows in other countries and they changed their opinion completely. It's really working.... Last month there was an articles about European Dog show in Bratislava written by a well-known Polish judge. And you can read there:
"Czechoslovakian Wolfdog is now more popular than his Dutch cousin Saarloos wolfhond. People say he has nicer character"
It is important because this person is not in any way tied up with CzW but a big fan of Terriers...
And the CzW gets not only better opinion comparing to Saarlos Wolfhonds but also in comparison to some other breeds from the 1 FCI group....

But back to the "Shepherd" - if we would change the name it would make false connection suggesting CzW has something common with German Shepherd Dog. You're right: CzW has almost 70% of GSD blood. But the most important point while breeding CzW is: this breed should look like the European Wolf and any feature characteristics of GSD (falling topline, black mask, long ears, brown eyes, long tail, wide chest, short legs) are serious faults and often disqualification faults by CzWs....