A very good post and I agree that these are not pure wolves and as such it does nobody any favours.
As for the UK situation the main problem is that unlike the GSD which dropped the name Alsatian Wolfdog very quickly the czech needs to do the same as this does nothing other than to encourage the wrong type of people to want one and plays into the hands of the likes of DEFRA who simply say that it is part wolf because thats what you call it,the fact that they are in the main many generations removed from the wolf has no meaning to them and until a genetic test can prove the real amount of wolf in both the czech and the gsd I dont think we are going to get anywhere.
There are many cases of recent wolf blood being added to the GSD but it is not made obvious and I am certain that some of these dogs have been imported into the UK for breeding one I recently saw was more wolf than GSD but was accepted as a pure GSD because of its paperwork.
The fact that the FCI accepts them means nothing in the UK and a few other countries.
What does annoy me is that both czechs and pure hybrids are coming in as GSD crosses because nobody is checking to ensure that they dont and I am also sure that many of these will in time be siezed and I wonder what sort of people own them.
Paul
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09-01-2005, 01:48
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