Defense Training

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Originally Posted by WolfmanUSA

How are CzWs in defense training? Do they make good guard/personal protection dogs?

Yes and...no... It depends what you mean. If you mean protection as sport than I can say: no. They are much worser than other breeds because they do not attack "just for fun", without any reasons. So if you work with Wolfdog:
- it will attack if it sees a reasons for it - if the decoy will work "hard" and play his role really good. The dog must FEEL the owner is in real danger. It is really hard to set a dog on decoy if the CzW knows the man is just playing his role....
- it will attack because it is fun for him. But in this case you will see the dogs "laughts"... I don't think the judges will like it...

Anyway: for me CzW are very good guard dogs because if the are propertly socialized (are not shy!) they will handle only in serious cases. I had GSD before and I can say the GSD was trained for IPO. But I feel much more safe with Bolton - a CzW with .... basic obedience....