Talk:Dog

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This is wikipedia, not yahoo. The "external links" should be used in rare cases when external sites contain useful, but copyrighted (and hence cannot be incorporated into Wikipedia) information; The "external links" should not become a huge list of every site that is about somehow relevant to dogs. The latest link added, supposedly to a very specific health problem (dry eyes) in dogs but actually on a cat site (!) - is a prime example of what should not be on the external links link. The link to the amstaf site is another good example - why link to this specific site and not to one of the other 100 breads? After all, there's a seperate dog breeds article, and perhaps even a separate amstaf page - so move that link there. I'm not bold enough to trim the link list myself because it appears that there are several frequent contributors to this article who are better knowledgable about the philosophy of this article. Nyh 14:18, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hasn't there been a change to calling the domestic dog canis lupis familiaris?

Daniel C. Boyer

Added sentence expanding on jobs of dogs. --Daniel C. Boyer

The article implies that wolves are dogs. Isn't this false in any sense? They're both canines, but they aren't both dogs. (Is there an older or specialized sense of "dog"? If so, it shouldn't be the first one listed.)

I have a picture of a dog that can be used, but what is the size of the picture have to be? - fonzy

The instructions about how to administer medicine to a dog calls me to question to this to the limited extent that each of my two dogs would not take a plain pill out of my hand if it were given to them "cold" (they would either not take it in their mouths at all, or take it in their mouths and immediately spit it out), but they would take the pills if I said to them, "You need to take this to make you well!" and took them out of my hand and swallowed them plain. Thus I think the implication that every dog would need to be administered medicine by this method (or the idea I have sometimes heard stated that dogs have to have pills wrapped up in meat or cheese) is untrue. --Daniel C. Boyer 14:52 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)

"There are dog farms in South East Asia, where dogs are grown as source of meat. While Philipine outlawed the consumption of dog meat, it upset a local tribe which regarded dog meat as their traditional food. In 2000, animal rights activists criticised the Korean practice of eating dog meat and some angry South Koreans instead decided to promote dog meat culture during the Olympic Games" - Does anyone else think this is too obscure? Evil saltine 06:13, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Perhaps. But it is a fact and it is usually the news headline (not in America or Europe, of course) when animal rights activists crash with those dog eaters. While half of the article is about dog-as-pet, we have the duly to tell the readers about the "dark side" of the dog-human interaction. It is sad, you can rewrite the paragraph but you cannot simply delete it and ignore this fact. Sorry. -wshun 06:40, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I wasn't going to delete it, and i know it's sad, it just seemed like it could use a little clarifying, that's all.

Wish the rewriting is better. wshun 23:55, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

There is still a request for a dog pix on the main page. Would this one work? Image:Shepador_Chewer_Thumb.JPG

(Copy "Image" designation and remove "_Thumb" to get a larger image. This puppy is part German Sheperd part yellow Labrador retriever.

Patrick0Moran 04:12, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

"Understandably, the conflicts between dog lovers and dog eaters occasionally appear as headline news."

From a strict NPOV, couldn't both groups be described as "dog lovers"? (As in, "steak lovers" or "fish lovers".)

Seriously, this sentence might be better re-written, or deleted.

"Adult Female Cockadoodle"? Perhaps I'm exhibiting ignorance, but I do have interest in dog breeds and this is the first time I run across this particular one. Google cross-referencing only turns up a Tom & Jerry episode named Cockadoodle Dog. And if not the breed, what does "Cockadoodle" exactly refer to? In case it is the name of that particular dog, my vote is for putting the breed instead of that... --AceMyth 05:36, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The last edit by Elf is seemingly a good one. ~~but information has been lost. What happened to Trophallaxis, e.g.? Can I revert?~~ Paul Beardsell 03:41, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sorry. Paul Beardsell 03:58, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Rewrite/reorg

I think the paragraph on chocolate is out of place. I appreciate the intent of the author to try to save dogs' lives, but find that paragraph disproportionately emphasizes one specific health issue, as well as being written in a style that is not appropriate for an encyclopedia (e.g. exclamation point, etc) If there was an article on dog health, then a section on chocolate would be fine, but otherwise it seems as random as putting something like "always have young children ride in the back seat" in the article on homo sapiens.

Also I think the section on dogs as food seems a little strange, given the size of the overall dogs article, I'd think one sentence would do it, rather than a whole section.

Just my suggestions....

-rob ( user:Robbrown )

and good suggestions they are, too. Actually the whole article needs a rewrite, taking into account the more specific articles that we now have. Some of the bits in it look decidedly amateur now. seglea 07:57, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The general organization is very similar to the Horse article and that seems to work fairly well. Not that the article couldn't use work, as it has definitely expanded in bits and pieces. Based on thoughts above, I was going to start an article on Dog health but I couldn't find a similar model to base it on (like Horse health, Feline medicine, or similar), so I didn't do it. Yet. Any opinions on the best title? (E.g., Canine health?) Elf | Talk 00:46, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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