Talk:American Eskimo Dog

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:Signed and dated for archive purposes only. William Harris • (talk) • 02:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: DMOZ/Open Directory Project

message: Ok, we're going round and round and round on this.  Here is what my three books say:
#The German spitz is smaller than the eskie & was brought over with immigrants
#This spitz was developed into a larger dog with some admixtures (probably Keeshond) in NYC
#By WW1, it was already a distinct breed from the German spitz and was registered as an American breed
Yes, it came from the German spitz.  No, it is not the same dog.  If you took an eskie to Crufts, it would not look the same as the German spitzes.  Hence, it is an American breed.  If the people who keep saying that it's German have print references, let's please see them.  The most recent reference I've seen to reiterate the NYC breed origin is The Dog Bible.  I'll give it a day to see if I and all those books can be proven wrong.  Otherwise, I'm going to go through the article with a flea comb. Geogre 22:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, yes, antique feminine nouns with their plurals (fox - vixen, ox - oxen).  Mine all say NYC as an origin.  Yes, the bit about the name change is well attested, but whether it is a new breed in the US or not would be disputed at very best.  This is what happens when sources disagree: we say, "Germany or USA" in boxen, and we provide a long answer on the origins section, "Some authorities argue that the American Eskimo Dog is the German Spitz with a new name, while others argue that it was a separate breed before the name was changed."  That way, we're honest with our readers and reflect the opinionen of the world.  (Anglo-Saxon has its spits, but the Saxon plural gets normalized across loanwords that come from cognates.  It's all a question of how voreign ze verd is.)  Geogre 21:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Well, it's great to have you here.  Can you tell us some of the spots that look rough to you?  With any wiki, there are bound to be silly bits and localisms added from time to time (e.g. someone's insistence that they're called "Echo dogs"), but I think folks are working from previously published stuff.  I wrote the bulk of the first draft of the article, and since then I've kept half an eye on the article, generally not intervening as the article has generally improved, but one problem is, of course, the way that AKC has arrived at the dance late, the way that media attention is lacking, and the way that UKC gets downplayed.  That adds to the fact that these were treated as "mixed" for far too long.  Geogre 21:42, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Signed and dated for archive purposes only. William Harris • (talk) • 02:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins

message: Shure that they are used as sledge dogs ? It's not mentioned in the article I think someone rad the name and thought "that must be a sledge dog"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.244.39.199 (talk) 22:05, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Some eskies may enjoy sledding, but at 25-30lbs max, they are not big enough to be successful at competitive mushing.  You may be thinking of the Samoyed which looks very similar, but is about twice the size, and is a utilitarian dog that was used historically for hunting, herding, and pulling sleds in Russia.Opendestiny (talk) 18:16, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: slegde dogs ?

message: Substituted at 07:33, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Signed and dated for archive purposes only. William Harris • (talk) • 02:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: I'm wondering if the Gabe the Dog meme is notable for mention in this article.  I'm new, and seeing that the meme isn't mentioned anywhere, is it notable for mention anywhere.  --One Blue Hat❯❯❯ (talk) 16:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gabe the Dog