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Dear Pavel,
I absolutely agree with you and as you already said we see a lot of wrong
judgement in Germany because german judges sometimes seem to think a CSW should
look and move like a german shepherd. At the moment we are working a lot in our
IG, as you know, to get to a better state in Germany. I hope the Czech and
Slowakian Club will help us with that as they did a great lot before. The VDH in
Germany wants a Charakter test in all breeding dogs and we are all together
working on it so I think in a few years things will be a lot better at least with
the VDH dogs.
If you need any arguments against "top breeding" in its negative results you only
have to have a closer look at the sarloos wolfdog who is in its origin very
likely to the csw. The sarloos has extremly high problems with imbreeding know
because they got PRA in their breed and because it isn´t a dominant gene they
didn´t realise it in time.According to Claudia they now seem to have two
different types of PRA one of them goes together with a Smallbrain-Degeneration
(I hope this is the right english translation). When the did some genetic
research on them some years ago the scientist asked them if they had divided the
blood sample of only one dog because he never before saw such a small genetic
base. I don´t know how they will solve this very bad problem without crossing
them with another breed what isn´t allowed by breeding regulation.
Regards Ina
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