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Myself I have not been aware of the manic resistance against our breeds
from certain individuals and groups until recently. On the contrary -
people have been most curious and friendly but the last months the media
has been publishing several unfriendly articles about the subject, and our
main television channel has produced a most unfriendly feature. Mr. Werner
was intervied as an expert on our breed, most probably due to an article of his, published on a net page related to banning of "dangerous" breeds.
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We have had this terrible problem in the USA too. Because of a very small
group of people like Mr. Werner there are many states that basically state
that even if a 'dog" has 1% "wolfblood" he must be classified as a wolfdog!
I personally know of one man in NYC that was crossing Husky's and Shepherds
(both parents AKC registered within their own breed) and he sold these pups
claiming that they were "low percentage" wolfdogs. Because he wanted to get
more money for the pups he had! One of them that he sold to a nice family
(a very nice 2 year old pet) had to have his head removed for testing (for
rabies) because the neighbors said he had wolf in him, and had to be
destroyed ;( This breeder even tried going to court to prove that he was a
liar & that there was NO wolfblood in this dog, but they did not listen!
People in this country seem to get hysterical when they hear the word "wolf"
.... so most of the serious breeders have to go "underground" and carefully
select future owners that live in states that are not as bad YET .. but I can
see it happening here & in Canada too .. because of ignorant fools that know
nothing, but talk a lot ;(
Actually that was one of the reasons that I chose to investigate your breed
more carefully. I have a friend here that is training dogs for a new movie
about the Hobo dogs, and was looking for dogs that resembled London. <A HREF="http://www.cedarwoods-k9.com/eisenmann/">
Charles Eisenmann Books - The Littlest Hobo - German Shepherd Dogs</A> I hope
this link works for you, if not you can go to
Http://www.cedarwoods-k9.com/eisenmann
Since your dogs look similar and are FCI recognized, I thought that my
friends would be interested in possibly Importing a few to train for the new
movie. I did ask my brother to contact some of his friends in Czechoslovakia
and asked him to send me more information about this wonderful breed. After
the reports & pictures I received, I was very excited .. especially when I
got reports back that Ing. Karel Hartel thought it would be a wonderful idea.
That is why I found your list & wanted to join to ask more questions (for my
own genetic knowledge as well) but when I realized that you have Parker on
your list, we all felt that it would not be good to go any further with any
potential hopes for the movie ;(