People who think they know your dog better than you!

[MyHorseMyRules]

At work, the wallpaper on my desktop rotates randomly through my pictures. And we had a delivery driver come in and start watching them, and he pointed at a picture of Raja and said, "That dog's blind in one eye." I was like, "No. She's not." He first insisted that I must have missed the picture. And he waited for another one to pop up of her, and then pointed at her again. "That one. That dog. She's blind in that eye. Look. There's another one. See? She has a blind eye." I was like, "No. I know which dog you mean, and she's not blind. She's my dog. It's just a blue eye." He kept insisting that she was, in fact, blind in that eye, so I just gave up and walked off. It's become a joke at work now to point out the pictures of the dog with the blind eye.

 

[SarahHound]

I get all the time that my dogs are actually whippets, I never understand it. Sure they are tall and skinny, but far too tall and larger built for a whippet.

 

[Gypsydals]

Usually the conversations go like this.
Conversation 1.
Person: Ohh can I pet your dog?
Me: yes but let him smell you first. He doesn't care for people just rushing up to him.
Person: ohh well you shouldn't let him get away with that, and you should show him whos boss.
Me: he knows, but its his personality and honestly I don't blame him, I don't care for it either.
Or this one
Person: Ohh a dalmatian puppy. how old is he???
Me: nope he is an adult.
person: ohh really? whats he mixed with? Hes too small to be full.
Me: nope hes full, pedigreed and a Champion.
Person: noooooo hes way to small to be full.
Me: nope hes right with in the breed standard which calls for a dog NO taller than 23 inches at the shoulder. The ones who are 26+ inches and 80 + pounds are way oversized.

I usually don't stay and talk long.

 

[Red.Apricot]

I've been informed that Elsie is:

a chow,
a husky,
a GSD,
a wolf,
a coyote,
a fox,
shy,
stupid,
calm,
too small,
too large,
dominant,
submissive,
and an anteater.

I just nod.

 

[MyHorseMyRules]

I think I've got you beat. I was informed that Raja was a poodle...

...and that Boone was a bichon.

 

[Laurelin]

Mia and Summer have been Sugar Gliders and Chinchillas before.

The best is still the crazy lady (I think she was a prof too which makes it worse) that told me Summer was a killer in disguise that she had seen in a vision and was really named Fang. I will never forget that one.

 

[cliffdog]

I get told at least once a week that Bonnie is a very nice black and tan coonhound mix...

 

[RD]

mia and summer have been sugar gliders and chinchillas before.

The best is still the crazy lady (i think she was a prof too which makes it worse) that told me summer was a killer in disguise that she had seen in a vision and was really named fang. I will never forget that one.

lmfao

 

[Tankstar]

Some crazy woman once tried to convince me Blaze was a GSD. She knew what a GSD was, and clearly I didnt, because I had one. I was with a friend and his GSD, who is a all black GSD. When I said Zak (the real GSD) was a GSD. she said, No he is a black lab. GSDs dont come in all Black. This lady was just a moron.

 

[Bahamutt99]

I've gotten the "too small to be a Pit Bull" thing quite a bit. Typically people who see my dogs like to share their own experiences by telling me about a dog they have/had/knew/saw whose head was about ___________ that big around. I also get the "what kind of pit...?" question a lot, which I will never understand. I think its because people generally accept "pit bull" as a "type" of dog that encompasses whatever they want to throw in there, instead of a nickname for an actual breed.

 

[cliffdog]

I've gotten the "too small to be a Pit Bull" thing quite a bit. Typically people who see my dogs like to share their own experiences by telling me about a dog they have/had/knew/saw whose head was about ___________ that big around. I also get the "what kind of pit...?" question a lot, which I will never understand. I think its because people generally accept "pit bull" as a "type" of dog that encompasses whatever they want to throw in there, instead of a nickname for an actual breed.

That's really annoying. I went by my mom's office the other day to bring her lunch and had our mutt Abbey with me. Abbey weighs about 68lbs. All of my mom's coworkers were petting her and someone asked what type of dog she was. I said, "Near as I can tell, she's a Pit Bull mix, but we don't know." They all said Noooo, she's too small to be a Pit Bull mix, her head isn't big enough, and one lady proceeded to show me pictures of her big blue lowrider bully on her phone, saying "THIS is a Pit Bull." LOL.

 

[DogKisses]

"What type of Pit?"

They might be asking about "Blue nose, Red nose, Razors edge," ect. You wouldn't believe how many people think "Red nose" is a "type" of the breed, not the actual nose color. (Like razors edge.) Ugh.

 

[Moth]

Watson is often mistaken for a miniature fox terrier...or just some kind of terrier.

I am always surprised when someone gets it right and says basenji.

Menchi usually not misidentified

However, people always like to tell me that both my dogs belong to breeds that are not very nice...

 

[JustaLilBitaLuck]

I've gotten the "too small to be a Pit Bull" thing quite a bit. Typically people who see my dogs like to share their own experiences by telling me about a dog they have/had/knew/saw whose head was about ___________ that big around. I also get the "what kind of pit...?" question a lot, which I will never understand. I think its because people generally accept "pit bull" as a "type" of dog that encompasses whatever they want to throw in there, instead of a nickname for an actual breed.

I get the "too small to be a Rottweiler" or "she must still be a puppy" on Missy all the time. And when I tell them that she's full grown, and a normal size for a female Rottweiler, they tell me that I'm wrong.

 

[ravennr]

When we had our black Pug, a few people in the community were afraid of him. They said he was a pit bull, LOL. They were afraid of his snorting, I told them he couldn't help it.
"You better not let that pit bull off that leash!"

Okay, crazy person, whatever you say.


Also, not a dog, but with my cat: He knows his name, and will come when you call him. My roommates are of the opinion that cats cannot be trained, cannot learn their names, and simply 'respond to sounds'.
Ry and I have given up on telling them differently. But I really get tired of hearing their CLICK CLICK CLICK with their tongues to call the cats, instead of just calling their names. They both come to me just fine without obnoxious sounds, especially Rockefeller. Little do they know, I've been working with their cat while they're at work everyday, LOL. Secret training. :rofl1:

 

[AliciaD]

Person: Ohh a dalmatian puppy. how old is he???
Me: nope he is an adult.
person: ohh really? whats he mixed with? Hes too small to be full.
Me: nope hes full, pedigreed and a Champion.
Person: noooooo hes way to small to be full.
Me: nope hes right with in the breed standard which calls for a dog NO taller than 23 inches at the shoulder. The ones who are 26+ inches and 80 + pounds are way oversized.

I usually don't stay and talk long.

Yes! People always think that standard dalmatians are too small! You can find some pretty big ones.

I once was greeting a German Shorthaired Pointer, I said to the owner that he was the first GSP I had met, and he was shocked. Apparently most people think he's a dalmatian. Glad I'm not that guy, I couldn't handle correcting/arguing with people day in and day out.

 

[Renee750il]

Mia and Summer have been Sugar Gliders and Chinchillas before.

The best is still the crazy lady (I think she was a prof too which makes it worse) that told me Summer was a killer in disguise that she had seen in a vision and was really named Fang. I will never forget that one.

Okay. :first: You win???? :rofl1:

 

[TicTacTug]

I let a lady pet Lotte one day, and she starts asking me what breed she is. So, I tell her she's a miniature schnauzer. Lady begins insisting to me that *she* has schnauzers, and my dog is definitely mixed with something, because their coats don't feel that rough. (Note: I strip Lotte to maintain her wire-coat... hence why she feels so "rough")

I also had a woman at the dog park screaming at me for bringing an in-heat female to the park. When I calmly pointed out that my dog is spayed, she told me that the way Lotte was "posing" (she was play-bowing) was what females do to proposition the males when they're ready to mate.

And, the pet store employee who told me that my then-4-month-old puppy was going to be an aggressive dog. Shortly after I got Lotte, I had trouble finding a harness that fit her correctly. So, we went into a big-chain pet store to try them on before I bought another one. I put a vest type that slips over the head on her - a size up from what the packaging claimed she needed, because it looked so small to begin with - and it got stuck. Lotte got agitated real quick and started throwing a puppy tantrum. In the end, it took three of us to carefully get the harness off of her again. However, because of the puppy tantrum (the screaming, the growls, and some snapping, though no contact with skin was made), the pet store employee who helped us started in on me about how she was a nasty little thing, and she was going to grow up into an aggressive dog, etc... To date, my now-adult-dog is definitely not aggressive.

 

[Laurelin]

lmfao

Okay. :first: You win???? :rofl1:

I had a post about that one when it happened. It was really really odd. I couldn't decide if she was being serious or not (seemed so).

After I moved away from the college campus the weird stories stopped. I think it's just the fact it was on a college campus. I got the one guy yelling at my dogs that he was not a squirrel, the one girl that told me someone she knew had a dog JUST LIKE mine but it got sat on and had brain damage, and I could go on... :lol-sign:

The lady that said Summer was named Fang was the weirdest though. She came out of the Academic building with a briefcase. I'm pretty sure she was a professor of some sort... Scary thought.

Summer has yet to kill me in my sleep.

 

[Kimbers]

Schaffer gets the "oh, waaaay too big to be a purebred GSD" thing a lot.
Now he is an inch taller than the standard, but that's not uncommon. The shelter gave us his papers, and he truly is a purebred GSD. Just with extra fluff.
He's also mistaken for a lion or a bear a lot.
'Cuz, ya' know, we definitely have African lions and blonde bears here in Colorado.

Just for reference, this is Schaffer.