Talk:Free-ranging dog

Proposed merge of Street dog with Free-ranging dog

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To merge Street dog into Free-ranging dog, maintaining a separate section; overlap and context. Klbrain (talk) 10:18, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

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The entrance sentences indicates this is a better way to comprehensively cover the subject. --stultiwikia^{text me} 09:25, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Support we have two articles on the same thing. Traumnovelle (talk) 20:45, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Oppose, as Street dog is a subset of Free-ranging dog, as the lede of the latter article describes. Each are well-developed and referenced, and they're linked. Readers are best served by keeping the concepts separate as they are. Klbrain (talk) 05:39, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Support because Street dog is a subset of Free-ranging dog, as the lede of the latter article describes. Policy reason for merge is overlap and context per WP:OVERLAP. Street dog (size=28kb) to have its own section under Free-ranging dog (size=23kb), where it can be found by search engines. Street dog to be turned into a redirect to that section. The merged article will still be only size=50kb max. 14.2.206.234 (talk) 02:11, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

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  Y Merge completed Klbrain (talk) 10:18, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Sloppy language in Rabies impact section

That section is written as if rabies is a problem all over the world. It's not! Our Rabies article says "A number of countries, including Australia and Japan, as well as much of Western Europe, do not have rabies among dogs. Many Pacific islands do not have rabies at all." New Zealand doesn't have rabies. It would take a fair bit of fixing, but something needs to be done. HiLo48 (talk) 00:32, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Rabies is not a problem "all over the world", but it is a problem in most parts of the world. And the countries where there is no rabies are typically the same countries where there are no free-ranging dogs. In an article about free-ranging dogs, discussing rabies prominently is not only acceptable, it is necessary. The article must be written from a global point of view, not from a Western point of view. And I don't think anything in the article implies that rabies exists in all countries; quite the contrary (see the section "Management", where it is stated explicitly that a minority of countries do not have rabies).2A02:2F0F:B208:C500:BD40:FBF2:153A:258B (talk) 22:24, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Australia's dingo is a free-ranging dog. HiLo48 (talk) 00:16, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

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