Weird breed guesses?
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I hope Laurelin shows up in this thread because she has the best story by far. :lol-sign:
The only weird guess I've ever gotten, surprisingly, is someone who asked if Rowan was a Miniature Australian Shepherd. Normally if people guess wrong, they guess Springer, which isn't a weird guess at all. If you don't know dogs, they look pretty similar.
I suspect I'll get some strange guesses with Firenze, though. We just haven't had any yet.
The only weird guess I've ever gotten, surprisingly, is someone who asked if Rowan was a Miniature Australian Shepherd. Normally if people guess wrong, they guess Springer, which isn't a weird guess at all. If you don't know dogs, they look pretty similar.
I suspect I'll get some strange guesses with Firenze, though. We just haven't had any yet.
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I've heard A LOT of bizarre breed guesses. People just generally don't have much knowledge of breeds so they make really really blanket assumptions. I had a friend once say "oh look at that Rottweiler over there" while pointing to a 30ish lb brindle dog. I'm pretty sure a few people called my standard sized Eskimo a chihuahua. Mostly people called him a Samoyed. He weighed 30 lbs. my boyfriend can't freakin' tell apart a pug and a French bulldog half the time (especially not in a drawing or something) and it drives me insane. My mom, who owns a wheaten terrier, thinks every beige-tan-wheat colored labradoodle she sees is a wheaten.
I had someone bring to daycare what I can only possibly imagine being a border collie MAYBE mixed with something similar who were convinced she was a "mini goldendoodle". Also like 25 people around here bring their haveneses to get groomed and they are almost 100% all or mostly poodle, so I'm assuming a local BYB is charging an arm and leg for inbred poodle puppies on the grounds that it's a rare breed.
I had someone bring to daycare what I can only possibly imagine being a border collie MAYBE mixed with something similar who were convinced she was a "mini goldendoodle". Also like 25 people around here bring their haveneses to get groomed and they are almost 100% all or mostly poodle, so I'm assuming a local BYB is charging an arm and leg for inbred poodle puppies on the grounds that it's a rare breed.
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You all will get a kick out of this one- when I was a kid, one of our goats got into the horse field, and my Dad's QH trampled him. My mother and a friend took the goat to the vet. The vet had 2 waiting rooms- one for dogs, one for cats. Mom and her friend were sitting on the dog side with a tri-colored Nubian goat (complete with good sized horns) with his hind end in a garbage bag. Yep- someone asked them what kind of dog he was.
Sam has gotten all sorts of weird ones. A lot of people don't buy that he's just a plain old mutt and insist he is some sort of exotic dog breed. one lady insisted he was a chi mixed with GSD. One lady said alpino which to my knowledge isn't a thing. He's also gotten papillon and schipperke which I guess isn't that far out there.
Most people think Wilson is an aussie because he holds his tail low and "border collies don't come in that color". There was a guy who guessed english shepherd, but he had two english shepherds with him that looked just like him. He looked really disappointed when I said he was a border collie.
Most people think Wilson is an aussie because he holds his tail low and "border collies don't come in that color". There was a guy who guessed english shepherd, but he had two english shepherds with him that looked just like him. He looked really disappointed when I said he was a border collie.
