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Chihuahuas: Drama queen cuddle-bugs

Corgis: Mouthy jerks

Shitzus: Floofy balcony barkers (mostly from my apartment complex now)

Bichons: Rich peoples' dogs that live forever and are spoiled into being manner-less

Labs: Dumb with no sense of personal space

Chessies: Dumb with no sense of personal space but loyal to their family

Poorly Trained Boxers: Humping beasts of annoyance

Pit-type mixes: Lovers with no sense of personal space
 

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Hmmm...well I am sure there are exceptions but here are a few I have developed:

Koolies: probably going to spend most of their time at your chest level or above. Even if you are standing. Especially if you are standing.

SPoodles: Bouncy jumpers. Sproiiing.

Shelties: So much talking.

Aussies: So much shouting.

Groenendael/Belgian Sheepdog: Do not trust around your dog. Walk away, and watch as you go.

Chessies: Retrievers without the happy. Also do not trust around your dog, but not as bad.

Goldens, Labs, Flatcoats: Wear their happy on their sleeve. And your sleeve. And your lap. Workaholics and class clowns by turn. Bruises likely. More and bigger bruises from the Labs.

Malinois: Blood on the outside. Yours, theirs, maybe both. Possibly accidental, probably enjoyed ;)

That's all that come to mind at the moment.
 
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Ok, so lots of these are unflattering but it's just what we see a lot of in my particular area and what's coming to me off the top of my head. For whatever it's worth I still like the good examples of a lot of these breeds...

GSDs: Neurotic, unstable, strangely soft and sensitive. Incapable of play with dogs, even as youngsters, and what looks like play winds up turning into guarding (a person, a space) or herding/non-mutual chasing.

Border Collies: Soft as warm butter with people (yelling "hey!" actually does affect them), strange with everything else - from lights moving to other dogs.

Papillons: Looooooooud. Shrieks to rival a cattle dog's or a Shiba's.

Boxers: Barrier issues, reactive, often bad with other dogs (too pushy in the play, don't take corrections well especially from dogs of the same sex, will redirect onto other dogs if the barrier frustration grows too much)

Standard Poodles: Vertical in all senses of the word. And do a hard nose jab at dogs they want to play with - repeatedly. No matter how much the other dog doesn't want to play or how many "please leave me alone" signals it gives.

Shar Pei and Chows: Watching you like the velociraptor in Jurassic Park does. If they like you, they love you - if they don't like you, don't even bother trying

Chihuahuas: Bite first, ask questions later. Pull scary faces frequently

Aussies: No sense of personal space, will bulldoze into you and not understand why not everyone finds that endearing

Goldens: Either the life of the party OR the stressed-out fun police who don't understand why there's so much noise and chaos and oh god make it stop

Belgians and ACDs: Did you want me to herd that dog to you? Here, let me herd him over. That'll teach him to have fun when I'm around!

Dobermans: Separation anxiety for days

Spaniels of all stripes: Big babies but will quietly accept what they consider to be their horrible fate (getting groomed, what have you) with incredibly heartbreaking faces and a lot of lip licking

Pits: overarousal problems out the wazoo. No impulse control, like to play with other dogs but the play frequently tips into something less pleasant for the other dog
 
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Flat-coats and Goldens: so much happy, happy about everything, do they ever worry about stuff? It's not normal to be so happy ALL DAY for your whole life.

Papillons: Cute on their own. Lethal in packs.

Mini Schnauzers: what is that screaming noise? Why must they run up to my dogs and then bolt away screaming when my dogs only look at them? Just stay away in the first place!

Border collies: Serious, humourless workaholics when out and about, but soft-natured and in tune with their owners. Fun police around dogs like goldies and flat-coats.

Brittanys: not your typical "everyone I meet is my new bestie" gundog, too busy hunting, basically a nose on fast long legs. Love their family, indifferent to everyone else.
 

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My observations from daycare
Doodles: Dumb. All of them. Always the first in the pool, and the first to come over and throw their sopping wet bodies all over you.

Beagles: Sweet as pie, but everyone humps the beagles. Everyone.

Danes: Spastic players who rapidly outgrow their cuteness. Hated by the other dogs due to too much body slamming and their huge size.

Pits: Prefer to marinate in the pool like hippos in their wallowing hole. Fail to understand that not everyone likes a full body slam, whether it's staff or other dogs. Tails like clubs and tongues like geckos. Not sure how such a squat dog can reach your faced with those thing, but they manage.

Pugs: Nice little dogs, but the reverse sneezing and snorting freaks the other dogs out.

Shepards: I cringe every time. Noisy, neurotic, terrible social skills, and most of them have that 'bite you now, bite you later' look in their eyes.

Bulldogs: Everyone one I've met has had aggression issues, whether it's with dogs or people. Not one has enjoyed daycare.

Sighthounds (ok, my two. They're the only sighthounds in daycare): Like to rile up the yard by running and getting the pack chasing them. No self preservation instincts.
 

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Flat-coats and Goldens: so much happy, happy about everything, do they ever worry about stuff? It's not normal to be so happy ALL DAY for your whole life.

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Just so you know, this actually made me laugh out loud.
 

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Oh I've noticed the snorting thing with other dogs too, more with Bulldogs. THEY like other dogs (sometimes IME) but even well-socialized other dogs see them coming are like "WTF is that thing THAT IS NOT A DOG AND WHY ARE ITS NOSTRILS GROWLING AT ME"
 

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Chessies: Retrievers without the happy. Also do not trust around your dog, but not as bad.
This is true. LOL Although I would say Retreivers without the Happy in public. At home, with good friends? Good Lord, is the happy everywhere and into everything and over everyone. hahaha He's as exuberant as a Labrador with "his" people....could give a flying flip about strangers in public. When people try to pet him he just stands there like, "Really? You're doing this now? You're weird." At home, if you're a guest he likes? Prepare to have a dog sitting on your head with his ball the entire time. LOL
 

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He's as exuberant as a Labrador with "his" people....could give a flying flip about strangers in public. When people try to pet him he just stands there like, "Really? You're doing this now? You're weird."
I love this description, sounds perfect for me. Very GSD-ish.
 

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