Talk:Dalmatian
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Run Dalma Run!
Why would one breed a dog to run along horses or carriages? Kent Wang 01:27, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
- LOL! The same reason why people breed freakish looking poodle or pug. --Menchi 02:09, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
- I found better info in my dog books. Does this answer the question mo better? (You ask interesting questions! :-) ) And Poodles aren't really freakish looking (see photos on breed page). They're actually quite standard-looking beasties!--just the haircut seems sometimes a little odd to us normal people, and we don't have photos of those more hoity-toity cuts in their article. Probably should. Now, Pugs, on the other hand-- Elf | Talk 02:32, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
- Great edits to this article recently! I really like the extra content and clarification. --Nevilley 23:37, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
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Smaller Danish Dog
However, I took out this sentence: "It is also sometimes, believed to erroneously, named Smaller Danish Dog." - as it does not on the face of it seem to make sense. What does it mean? Can we sort it out and put it back? --Nevilley 23:37, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
- I have no idea and couldn't figure it out but left it there hoping that someone else might know what it meant. I'm guessing that something somewhere (no idea in or out of wikip) refers to it as a "smaller danish dog" and whoever added this was pointing out that this is incorrect. Don't know whether it's necessary unless it's an authoritative source, but I don't know and didn't check history to figure out who added this. Elf | Talk 20:04, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I wrote that to mean "Dalmatian is also sometimes called "Smaller Danish Dog", but some people believe that name is erroneous" (since it also applies to some bulldogs, it seems). OED says "Dalmatian dog, the spotted coach-dog, sometimes called ‘smaller Danish dog’. Also Dalmatian pointer, etc." --Menchi 22:10, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
