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Eskimo vs. Inuit

This article mentions both Eskimo and Inuit as the people of Greenland. Following the link to Eskimo yields this: "In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is considered pejorative by the natives and has been replaced by the term Inuit." Since this is about the people of Greenland and they consider themselves Inuit rather than Eskimo and the word to be pejorative, I am changing references from Eskimo to Inuit in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.222.183 (talk) 20:40, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Temperament

The article referenced to back up the statement "the Greenland dog takes a very firm and confident owner to make a good pet" is a wonderful article, but does not in fact mention anything of the kind.

It seems likely that the temperament is very similar to Siberian Husky, since they probably originated from the same population and were bred for the same purposes only separately. Independent, stubborn and mischievous yes, fear-aggressive or dominant-aggressive towards humans probably not.

I'm working in a vet clinic currently, today we had a Siberian husky and a Siberian x Greenlander in, and they were both the two biggest softies ever. Completely easy to handle even tho they were in a lot of pain.

I suspect that most cases of people finding their dogs 'difficult to control' are because they have overlooked the foundation stages of good socialisation.

I do not know enough about Greenlanders specifically, but I doubt that the section on Temperament so far is accurate or balanced, and certainly its only reference does not say anything like what it attributes to it. Also it would be useful to include comparison to the Siberian husky on recall and prey drive.

Kester ratcliff (talk) 18:07, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kester, I also checked that reference and I agree that it does not support the sentence you mentioned. I have tagged the sentence with a {{Failed verification}} tag until someone can find another reference. I currently do not have much time to properly research the Greenland Dog, so I really cannot say what their temperament is like.Coaster1983 (talk) 01:07, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

While browsing pictures of dogs with a good friend of mine, I came across two articles on the same animal, and I said to myself, tally ho! I must make a merger procedure so those good wikipedia chaps who know what they're doing (unlike me) can merge the pages together. They can go bang bang bang, and then my friend and I won't be confused over why her page on the Greenland Dog has pictures and mine doesn't. Ha ha ha! Cheerio. --Sumestest (talk) 06:34, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be merged with the "Greenland Husky" article, as they are talking about the same dog, however, this one is much more developed than the other one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.39.201.166 (talk) 19:44, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Greenland Husky now redirects to this article, per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greenland Husky. No article content was copied across. --Der yck C. 19:22, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History

Nansen wrote in his book "Farthest North" that he used dogs from Russia, Samoyeds ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.204.41.74 (talk) 09:29, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nansen text now removed because it was not found in the cited reference. William Harristalk 07:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]