User talk:Coaster1983/Archives/2010/June

Greenland Dog
Do you know someone who could improve the temperament section on the Greenland Dog page? Currently it sounds doubtful, and I read the whole article it refers to, it's really great, but doesn't mention anything like the statements it's used to justify. Dominant-aggression between dogs when the top-dog dies to establish a new top-dog (as mentioned in the article) doesn't necessarily have any correlation to difficulty for humans, in fact they're normally very different types of behaviour. Kester ratcliff (talk) 15:11, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Kester, I left a message at the Dogs WikiProject asking for help.Coaster1983 (talk) 01:08, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, and I've got a counter-reference now too: Coppinger, Raymond & Lorna “Dogs” 2001, p.186 -it talks about how he and other mushers, including Inuit mushers he knew, selected and trained dogs to be more and more mutualistic/cooperative and not dominant-aggressive, because that meant good 'team morale' and the dog sled team was more effective running together in harmony. He ridicules with reasons the notion that sled dogs are like wolves or like the popular misconception of wolves. If what he says is true, my one experience of a Greenlander x Siberian being THE biggest softie I've ever met might even be typical! :) If I can find it I'll copynpaste this over to the Dogs Wikiproject page too. Kester ratcliff (talk) 16:22, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Undoing oldsingerman's edits:

I really had to laugh. At first I thought, "Uh oh, coaster doesn't like what I wrote." Then I thought, " Well, dumb me, If I'd sign my edits this might not happen." Thanks for restoring them.BTW I really appreciate folks and especially you keeping things fine tuned and correcting my errors. Hopefully I'm learning. It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks!! osm20Oldsingerman20 (talk) 03:35, 9 June 2010 (UTC)