Talk:Guard dog
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit comments - comment history - watch comments ยท refresh this page) Per the request for assessment here I've looked over the article again and feel that it's start classs. One thing is that the "pitbull" isn't actually a breed but rather a term that encompasses the Pit Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier and American Staffordshire Terrier. I would say that all of the Belgian Shepherds have above-average guardian instinct (all of them succesfully compete in schutzhund), not just the mal. I would say the pug is definitely not a guard dog, watch dog perhaps. The Rhodesian Ridgeback probably wasn't developed for guardian use. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 14:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC) |
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[edit] Is breed specific legislation paragraph objective enought?
If not perhapse I should remove the animal racism sentence...Mymazdatribute 01:59, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Legality of training dogs to attack humans
Since when is having a guard dog trained to attack intruders illegal? Seems unlikely that that's the case.
- Good question. Person who added it was generally reliable, in my experience, but doesn't seem to have been on wikipedia much since september. I changed the text to "maybe" language & I'll leave a question on user's talk page anyway. Elf | Talk 05:48, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
- User's response (from my talk page):
- No, I don't have any sources or anything for saying that training a dog to attack people is illegal, but it seems like it is. If a dog attacks a person, the owner of the dog can have files charged against them, so... I dunno. If you think that line should be taken out, go right ahead. Lachatdelarue (talk) 00:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
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- I've never heard of the practice of training a dog to attack humans being illegal. However, it is certainly true that there are many instances where owners have been held responsible when their dogs have attacked people. The distinction is significant, I think. --Hux 12:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
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- As far as I know the training (In the USA) is not illegal as there are trainers in every state who do so for a fee. Many of the trainers also train police dogs and will train bite work on personal dogs as well. However specific breeds may be illegle in some areas, see Breed specific Legislation page here on wiki.Mymazdatribute 01:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Assessment
Sorry for the delay. Article is generally well constructed, and the references section is definitely welcome. However, I would perhaps change the "References" heading to something else and/or create a different "Bibliography" section to mention all the details about the books referred to. Badbilltucker 18:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
will change Mymazdatribute 04:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- Start class. New information is certainly welcome, but still falls a bit short of B article. Also, the word "interesting" might not be the best choice, as it could be taken as being a bit POV. Badbilltucker 17:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Added small commentary on pit bull as guard dog: my reasoning for adding "not always a good choice" is because compared to the others on the list they are less wary of strangers. (Even a doberman or rottie not bred as a guard dog will take time to warm up to you.) Second, the breed was never bred to be a guard and many examples of this breed that I have met would more likely only go batsh@# if an intruder decided to clobber Aunt Edna rather than steal Aunt Edna's stereo.
[edit] Watchdog vs. Gurad Dog
I think two seperate articles should be devoted to the two seperate concepts. Watchdogs (dogs that simply bark or "alert") and guard dogs differ in their roles, characteristics, breeds and so on. Why not have a different article for each of them? A little about the Watchdog vs. Gurad Dog debate can be found here: http://www.homesecurityguru.com/recommended-watchdog-breeds Dvirgassner 07:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
