Talk:Caucasian Shepherd Dog

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I do not understand the phrase in the original edit summary. This is from Molosserdogs.com and can not be used freely without modification. Wikipedia requires all the materials to be available by GFDL and be freely modifiable - that is wiki is for. abakharev 09:43, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I may not understand the edit summary correctly. Do you mean that we are not allowed to modify the article or that it is OK with the copyright owner not to modify it? abakharev 09:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Alex - I understand. This is the best information on this breed. I am submitting it to wikipedia under your conditions of the GFDL. It is freely modifiable. I do think that in short order the material will probably be so modified as to be far away from the original. However, when I learn how to put a link with the article - I'll add and external link to www.molosserdogs.com and www.caucasian.org both are my sites.
Thank you so much. I have lots to learn here. {{Maximus 08:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)}}
Don't forget to sign your posts, you can do so with ~~~~ (four tildes in a row)... As for the links to your sites, I added them for you, you just do it like this: * [http://www.caucasian.org www.caucasian.org] .... Hope that helps! (we own a Belgian Malinois, another fairly esoteric shepherd breed) Happy editing! ++Lar: t/c 00:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


Shouldn't this be redirected to more precise name of the breed - "Caucasian Shepherd" - Alsandro · T · w:ka: Th · T 03:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Citations

Dog breed articles drive me nuts when browsing Wikipedia. They are often heavily lacking in citaitons, and this article is no different. You CAN'T say "breed X is usually Y" without backing it up with a reputable source. Even worse, many anthropomorphize exclusively human traits ("truly a thinking dog") which can not be legitimately provided citations for. PLEASE clean up this article before most of it has to be "cite needed" tagged and removed. Alvis 05:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wow, What?

"Ovcharka AKA caucasian mountain dogs are used to hide amongst sheep in herds. A pack of wolves (3 or 4) will attack the sheep not noticing the Ovcharka, and the dog will throw down with a couple wolves at the same time. The fur is several layers and thick giving the wolves teeth the inability to reach its flesh. They are loyal to their duty in protecting their flock and family and will stand by and defend through any circumstance. Unfortunatly they are often misrepresented as being dangerous and violent, when in fact they are not unless there is a threat or a perceived threat to family and home."

...This needs a rewrite. Badly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.217.196 (talk) 22:18, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shepherd not Ovcharka!

Ovcharka simply means Shepherd in Russian language. If the article is written in English, why aren't some words translated?


You are correct, the translated name should be: "Caucasian Shepherd" while transliterated is "Kavkazskaya Ovcharka"

131.247.19.186 (talk) 18:39, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Central Asian Ovcharka / Sredneaziatskaya Ovtcharka

Hi, I'd like to write an article on the Central Asian Ovcharka (aka Sredneaziatskaya Ovtcharka or CAO). Since it's related to the Caucasian Ovcharka I though I'd mention it here. Also, it will require a disambiguation of Ovcharka to clarify that there are two (or, some would say three) different kinds of ovcharkas. Everyone OK with this?Osli73 (talk) 22:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC)