Talk:police dog

RFV discussion: April 2018
Sense 2: German shepherd. Some police dogs (not all) are German shepherds, but is the term used for German shepherds that have never worked for the police? Equinox ◑ 18:13, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Possibly. There's this exchange from a book by James Thurber, but it isn't 100% clear that the dog has never worked for the police. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 19:08, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This 1930 article states German shepherd is "commonly known as a police dog", as well as this one. I don't know how to search for appropriate uses, though. Einstein2 (talk) 19:22, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Given the dates of those quotes as well as the Thurber story, it may be en by now. It's interesting that in the first link Einstein2 gave it says that German shepherds have been called police dogs "since the war" (i.e. World War I), so it may have been a "freedom fries"/"liberty cabbage" phenomenon where words associated with an enemy become taboo. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 19:58, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

This is cited. In addition, I recall the use of "police dog" to mean German Shepherd when I was a young child, although I haven't heard it used that way since the 1960s. Kiwima (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 19:31, 22 April 2018 (UTC)