Ways of evolving of CzW...

[GalomyOak]

Originally Posted by Margo

Hartl made our breed because he also didn't liked the character and look of GSD. Character because GSD were to "lazy"; stable but in the fact indifferent for everything what happens near by them (not vigilant enough).

Vigilant...yes...that's the word that describes the wolfdog over the GSD. If something happens - a car turns onto my road for instance - my wolfdogs know long before my GSD reacts. If a stranger comes to the house, the wolfdogs will run up to investigate - and will usually bark briefly - and then evaluate the situation. Thankfully, all people that have come to my house intend no harm, so they only get some suspicious looks from the wolfdogs - but the wolfdog never, not for a minute, forgets where the people are - and would be my side in a second if trouble started. I've seen this naturally protective side to my wolfdogs only once, when an angry ex-student (age 17, definitely the size of a grown man), came walking aggressively up to me in a back alley (he'd been arrested for promoting gang violence in school, and wasn't very happy with us for expelling him). In all other instances, they accept new people - touching, petting, acting foolish...

In the same situation, at my house, my GSD runs up, also checks out the newcomer - but then she assumes all is okay, and goes about her business - laying in the sun, chewing on a bone. If trouble were to start, she first would look to the wolfdogs to see what to do, and might join in...same training, same upbringing, very average American bred GSD...but I think even she knows that she is not as bright or witty as the wolfdogs...