Breeders in the United States

[Kev8551]

I'm very interested in this breed.

not to show them. not to breed them. but they are beautiful animals. when my German Sheperd Dog goes to Doggy Heaven, i am very seriously thinking about getting one.

do they like to live inside? do they like going horseback riding? do they like kids? other animals?

most of the answers i've heard are YES.

now the big one.

Are there any laws prohibiting them in the US?

Are there any clubs near the US?

[Hanka]

Kev. come to summer trip to Czech republic. You can choose from muuuuuch wolfdogs
In USA are owners only, not breeders. In Canada is one "breeder", but I think , his wolfdogs have not HIP dysplasia results and bonitations.

[wolfangel]

Hi Kev,
From a recent post to the AKC last week... actually NO CSV is register there. All owners I contacted still don't have their wolfdog.
There is ONLY one breeder in North America : Wolfen kennel.
He produced only one litter end 2004 and did not produced others for two reasons : first the breeder wanted to obtain full recognition of the breed in Canada (his country), second he wants official reservations because he don't sell puppies via newspapers or pet shops.
All his puppies are sold under a co-ownership agreement to protect the breed against puppymills. All BREEDING stock is clear for hip+elbow dysplasia + eye diseases prior to be use in his breeding program.
All dogs are raw fed and holistically reared.
For futher details please contact me privately and I'll give you the breeder's information.

Good luck in your search!

[roo]

Hi Kev8551,

As you can see, there is a lot of information here on this breed and many, many nice people who are more than glad to help answer any questions. I definitely recommend learning as much as you can about the breed and if you can swing a trip to Czech or Slovakia, you are likely to learn a great deal more (as well as make several great friends).

I imported a CSV into the U.S. last year, and she will be a year old this week. I can confirm the answers to your questions:

do they like to live inside? - Sure, but they also love lots of exercise and the outdoors. Mine has made "her" spot at the foot of our bed every night.

do they like going horseback riding? You bet (just not ON the horse...)

do they like kids? Mine seems to like the way they taste (just kidding!), but she will lick the their cheeks raw with kisses if they let her.

do they like other animals? -She was a little spooked around acttle at first, but she's fine now. She loves her big sister (a german shephard mix already in our family). She really, really like chasing and catching lizards...

With regards to laws in the U.S., that will be a State or local issue. But, I have had no problems and am not aware of any state issue since they are a recognized breed by the FSS of AKC and are NOT wolf hybrids.

I am not aware of any clubs in the U.S., as I believe there are currently less than 20 CSW's distributed all over the country. But, there has been talk of the owners setting a date and place to get together.

Please feel free to contact me anytime or PM me if you would like to discuss this really beautiful and unique (though sometimes challenging) breed further.

Robert
Louisiana

[wolfangel]

WOW! If there is at least 20 CSV in USA, all must be AKC-FSS registered soon....

To help us, Canadian and American owners, to meet each other and exchange information easier...
I just created a group and invite all USA and CDN owners to join the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CDNUSA_CSV/

I think that group can be a good place to work for the full recognition of the breed in each side of the border

And yes CSV LOVES indoors and to be part of the family...
If properly socialized they love kids and are eager to play with them.

[hanninadina]

CSW is a breed which is breed in FCI worldwide and they are allowed in US and CANADA why not? A halfsister of my Myla Crying Wolf from first litter - Frida Crying wolf - is living in the Us. Look in data base and contact them.Good luck. And I think you can get from europe one.Christian

[wolfangel]

Originally Posted by hanninadina

CSW is a breed which is breed in FCI worldwide and they are allowed in US and CANADA why not?

Unfortunately, because of its French & English name's translation (Chien-Loup & Wolfdog) some states may refused the CSV.

In Canada and in most US states, it is against the law to own an hybrid...

I perfectly know that the CSV should be considered as a dog and not directly as an hybrid but some states' shelter inspectors & gouvernement inspectors may put a CSV owner in lot of trouble.... As an example, a law against all dogs of pitt bull type exist in Ontario and a retired couple needed to pay lot of lawyer expenses when their animal control inspector made a complain against them because they "owned" a dog of that type. In fact the dog was a Labrador !!!!!!

In North America some inspectors are not so good and easy to deal with. Every US owners should be sure of their states law to avoid problem.
Also as soon as all CSV in US will be AKC-FSS registered, owners will have a proof of their dog's origin as a dog .... not a direct hybrid.

There is too many kinds of hybrids in US and most are not legally owned.... this hybrid popularity play a bad role on the CSV future.

It is for me like the American Staff and Pittbull relation. Now that Pittbull (not a rcognized breed) is considered as dangerous and so many laws are against that type of dog, AmStaff are also putted in the same bag.
I wish to never see that happening in the CSV... with all hybrids in USA and Canada that are considered dangerous...

On the market there is so many false papers goind on and there so maybe the officials will not recognized a foreign pedigree... specially in a foreign language than English!

The way to obtain the AKC-FSS registration is really simple : two photos of the dog, the copy of its pedigree and $30.

Not always easy to deal with North American bureaucratic

[lupis]

Originally Posted by Hanka

Kev. come to summer trip to Czech republic. You can choose from muuuuuch wolfdogs

Roo ask for breeder in Slovakia. Czech dogs are very much strange.

Originally Posted by pdmcgrane

Feel free to send me a message if you need any advice in regards to importing a puppy. I received my puppy (Zahara od Uhosti) in late February and she made it through the shipping process just fine.

If you look for dog for breeding i will not import it. Definitely best dogs you find in some kennel in slovakia, italy, germany and poland. not all sure but most. one in france.
in czech is very much hard to find normal pup. all dogs are very much shephard, same swiss i see.

[Kev8551]

thanks, both of you, for replying.

as of right now, as i said, we have a big German Sheperd that thinks he is one of our kids, and i guess he is.

when he does leave us, hopefully a while from now, i just might have to make a trip to the summercamps.

what happens at the camps?

how lost would i be speaking only english?

thanks again.

[Koos]

Hi Kev,

I am from Holland and of course I don't speak the Czech or Slovak language too, so we speak or German or English.

At the beginning it is a littlebit difficult to know which person is speaking another language but after a few days you will meet some people.

When it is possible we go there every year and there are a lot of people there to train with the dogs and possibly do exams with the dogs but most of the time you are free to do what you want. Will you go for a walk, you can go, will you train with your dog, you can do, will you sleep with yor dog, you can do. It is a summerholliday for most of them.

And there is also something organized to go to some places in the surrounding or a night safari in on of the most beautiful zoo's.
This is in Czech republique.

Sometimes there will be a little show and a bonitation in the last days of the camp and also a bonitation in Slovakia.

The summercamp in Slovakia is really holliday. In the morning and in the evening there is some training and you can part of it and at the rest of the day you can do what you want to do. There it is one big family and in the evening there will be a fire the whole evening and even the night through with mostly a lot of beer.

But at both camps you can talk with other people and when there is someone who doesn't speak another language there will be another person to translate so you allways can communicate.

This is shortly what you can do an both camps are in a wonderfull surrounding so it is really summerholliday.

( I speak about the summercamp in Lazne Belohrad but there are some other camp in Czech Republique)

I hope you got an impression of what the possibilities are in such a camps,

Letty