Excluding nested keywords

Ok, I have a keyword hierarchy. Working in a busy fieldseason I import my picture and quickly assign them keywords as good as I can. For example wild dogs from the Luambi pack in Liuwa Plain National Park get the keyword 'Luambi', The hierarchy is Wild Dog > Liuwa > Luambi.
Within the Luambi pack there are several individuals. Now the field season has ended I want to identify the individual animals in the pictures.
Thus, they already have the keyword 'Luambi' and from those I'd like to assign them to individuals, for example 'Wild dog 01' within the Luambi pack. But there are already many pictures from previous years, so just selecting 'Luambi' doesn't work as it includes all already keyworded animals in the Luambi pack.
I could create a smart collection with: contains all - 'Luambi', and a 'doesn't contain' for each animal in the pack but some groups are pretty large (>50 individuals, and it can happen there are multiple individuals in one pictures of which some are identified and others not), so this takes a lot of time.
When using filters, and chosing 'flat' as view  it doesn't seem to work either, there are several issue.
See attached picture.In the right hand pane you can see that there are 44 pictures with the keyword 'wilddog', I want to see those pictures, and only those pictures, there are >150 nested keywords under it. In the left hand pane you can see that the filter only tells me there are 41 pictures with the keyword 'wilddog'???
If I click on 'wilddog' in the filter nothing happens, I don't get to see a selection of those 41 pictures.
Most keywords are working as filters in the filter pane, but some aren't.
I've done some searches on how to select parent keywords without including nested keywords and the only solution I saw was filtering, which in my case doesn't seem to work.
I'm working with Lightroom 5.3

Oh, I forgot about that bug -- yes indeed, both the Keyword column in the Library Filter bar and the Keyword List can only handle about 1600 keywords showing before they start acting erratically (on Windows).  This bug has been present since at least LR 3, and it's never been high enough priority for Adobe to fix.   Please add your opinion and vote to the official bug report:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/i_cannot_access_the_whole_keyword_li st_to_edit
For the Keyword List pane, there are easy workarounds -- use keyword filtering of the list, or introduce a keyword hierarchy and keep most of the hierarchy collapsed.  Here's a workaround for the Library Filter bar bug:
1. In the Keyword column, change the view from Hiearchical to Flat:
2. In the Keyword List pane, in the "Filter Keywords" box, enter the desired keyword, e.g. "Wilddog" (I entered "p1638" in my test catalog):
3. Hover the mouse to the right of the keyword (just past the image count) and click on the right arrow that appears:
(In your case, "Wilddog", not "p1638".)
At least in my test catalog with 2000 keywords, this leaves the Library Filter bar's Keyword column with that keyword selected, in Flat view.
Another workaround is to use my Any Filter plugin, using the criterion:
Explicit Keyword = Wilddog

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