Hi everyone.
A couple of days ago the Norwegian Television showed a most unfriendly
commentary regarding the CSV and SW.
As I previously wrote, the Norwegian Ministry of Justice is making a list
of proposed banned breeds. The main subject is banning "fighting dogs" or
breeds that may be compared to these, like American Staffordshire Terriers,
Bull Terriers etc. Secondly the Ministry is considering banning breeds
that have proven overrepresented in bite statistics or breeds that might
cause fear to the public by their extraordinary hunting instincts. The
keeping of wolf hybrids is already forbidden, allthough a number of such is
supposed to be kept secretly. Now the time has come to look to the few SW
and the single CSV in Norway.
The Directorate of Nature Management is investigating how close is the
relation between the wolf and the two FCI approved breeds, that is - if
they are a kind of "wolves in disguise" irrespective their FCI approval.
Therefore the owners of SW and CSV are dependent of all kind of statistics
to show the Ministry of Justice with respect to attacks made by CSVs and
SWs upon human, compared to other breeds.
We also should like to have more information on the subject of how close
the relationship between the wolf and our two breeds is. Anyone who can
help be referring to links of offical information or by mailing any kind of
information which may be helpful?
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Per Olav
http://www.norwolf.no