What's the Weirdest/Funniest Thing You Have Been Asked About Your Dog?

ThoseWordsAtBest · 08-26-2009, 11:59 AM

Smalls receives a menagerie of questions. Most often people ask if she's a Lab puppy, or if she's a "rare" black Dachshund. I was appalled once at an adoption event when the RESCUE wanted to know what breeder I got her from and if I planned on breeding her. She is CLEARLY a mutt. And breeder? You're a rescue!

On Jack: "He's got wolf in him?" this sometimes is even after we say he's a Norwegian Elkhound. "Elkhound? Is he part wolf?" or the one lady who asked if he was an Akita, and when we said no and told her his breed she said "He's part Akita, then?"

On Jonas: Besides the various Dachshunds owners I meet asking me why he is either too BIG or too SMALL (pick one people, he can't be both) the oddest was a guy in our old apartment complex, who said "Oh, a wiener dog. Does he eat your underwear a lot?" I starred blankly for way too long I guess because he then followed up by saying his grandmother had a Dachshund who would eat her underwear. I just told him I didn't leave my underwear out and where the dogs could get them. I WANTED to say "While she was wearing them!?" but refrained. He was weird enough without encouragement.

MissMutt · 08-26-2009, 12:22 PM

Once a guy came up to my boyfriend and I at the boardwalk and was annoying Marge, talking to her and trying to pet her. He told me all of my training was wrong and that there are certain things dogs will do if they love you, regardless of their training. She proceeded to growl at him. Guess she didn't love him.

Usually people are spot-on about her breed, either asking if she's a Lab (which she's not, but at least she's close) or a Lab mix (which she probably is)..

Laurelin · 08-26-2009, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Keechak

I can understand if it would have been Trey or something, but Summer.......

Once I was walking Trey and Summer for real and was asked that. I pointed to Trey and they said 'No not the sheltie, the toy collie' and pointed to Summer! I was like what the heck?

It happens really often which I don't get. She looks nothing like a collie.

I did also get asked a lot back when we had two shelties and a papillon if the pap was the shelties' baby.

Tankstar · 08-26-2009, 01:07 PM

I was walking him down at the mall (its a strip type of mall with stores outside and not a huge building) for socializing him with people, cars, loud noises ect. a man and his son walked by, the son said "dad I want a dog like that" the man came up and said how much do you want for him? I said, he isnt for sale. He said "But my son wants HIM". "Sorry he isnt for sale" The man says "I will give you as much as you want, anything, 1000 bucks? 2, 3 4, 5 thousand?" Me "No thanks, he is NOT for sale."

Once in the pet store a women with her daughter and VERY fat pug/beagle mix (puggle) came over and asked me if my dog was male, I said yes. She asked if I wanted to breed to her female. I was horrified. I said no, neither should be bred, and boy would they be ugly dogs. Imagine a "puggle" with a long nose and long shaggy hair, *shudder*

Another time I was walking in the woods with him. I sen a group of people yelling "FOX, FOX, FOXXXXXX". So I quickly called Blaze over to me, thinking there was a fox nearby. Nope they were talking about Blaze, and were amazed that I tamed a fox lol

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A lady ran up to me at petco once while I was walking Hawk and Kechara around and said "OH Shelties! I used to breed shelties!"

Had the same thing, except the women bred and owned GSD's, said that my dog was a very obvious GSD, and I was lied too. yes Im sure i was lied to, since I was sold a sheltie, but my sheltie is 60'ish labs and is 21inchs at the sholder. So he is obviously a collie or a mix with sheltie and collie. but no way a GSD.

ioreks_mom · 08-26-2009, 01:40 PM

we were walking iorek on a off leash dog walking trail and a man came up to me and asked what mix he was. uh, he is a samoyed. i think that they look pretty unique, hard to mix up with something else. he then went on to tell us that he was an expert dog trainer and he had and trained many many dogs all his life.

like someone else said - we had a siberian husky growing up and all the kids in the neighbourhood thought that he was blind because he had blue eyes. they were always astonished that he would follow them, they couldn't figure out how he could see them. no matter how many times we told them he was not blind, he just had blue eyes! there was also another kid down the street from us that told us that he was not pure because he has 2 blue eyes and everyone know that siberian huskies that were pure always had one blue eye and one brown eye...just like his! well, there is no way to tell for sure if he was pure or not since he didn't come with papers but his mom and his dad were both siberians (without papers) and unfortunately the "breeder" was a byb. we got him from my dad's cousin (who bought him from the byb) because he couldn't handle him any more. our husky was the best dog ever.

hbowen87 · 08-26-2009, 02:49 PM

Wonder what it is with kids and blue eyes. I know someone with a border collie/ black lab mix that has blue eyes. Some kid at a dog park kept following them saying over and over and over "That dog has weird eyes" so finally, irritated, he told the kid "and she can shoot lasers out of them" which to his surprise the kid believed, later overhearing the kid tell his mom "that dog has weird eyes....they shoot lasers."

My dog Star is fairly boring, all I've ever been asked is "is that a border collie?" "wow! She must be a handfull!" or "is she a puppy?" all of which are partially correct. Oh and once "Is she a shelter dog?" which I found curious what about her made him know that (she is though).

My last dog though I was asked by a guy that worked for the electricity company "You still got killer?" me: *blank look* "Killer?" guy: "Yeah, I used to be the guy that had to check your meters years ago, and there was that doberman up there in that window like he was gonna chew through and eat me!" (she was actually half miniature doberman, half some sort of terrier, and only 30 lbs)

Then there was the never ending question from the pizza delivery guys: "You serious? That big of a bark out of that small of a dog?" No, I'm just kidding, you're watching her bark genius.

Michiyo-Fir · 08-26-2009, 03:03 PM

Ok we have no Papillons at all in our area except for mine and mine's name is Nia.

Once I was walking Nia and this man came up and said hey Caramel! I haven't seen you in a long time! Where's your brother??

What? I don't even know any dog with a similar color as mine in our area! And we don't have any long haired Chis around here either, not sure why he would say he knew my dog...

Also, I find that random people just walking up to me while we're on walks and asking the price I paid for my dog is quite rude. I've had this at least 10 times.

Just 2 days ago a lady and her husband were muttering in a different language about my dog and the lady came up and asked how much is your dog? I responded and she immediately went to her husband and said SEE! I told you they're expensive!

Foyerhawk · 08-26-2009, 03:06 PM

People comment that my dog must have cost a lot of money too. I suppose it's common knowledge that German lines GSDs are expensive (though mine actually wasn't by most standards). My Whippet they assume is expensive because it's an uncommon breed. However supply outweighs demand, and a fine show quality Whippet can be bought for $600-800 easily- half what a PET Golden or GSD from a top breeder would cost. People always almost universally ask if my Whippet is a show dog (he was). It must be his arrogant, proud stance and how clean and calm he always is. That, too, makes them say, "He must be worth a lot" (Actually he's financially worthless- he's 12 and he's neutered).

Keechak · 08-26-2009, 03:07 PM

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My last dog though I was asked by a guy that worked for the electricity company "You still got killer?" me: *blank look* "Killer?" guy: "Yeah, I used to be the guy that had to check your meters years ago, and there was that doberman up there in that window like he was gonna chew through and eat me!" (she was actually half miniature doberman, half some sort of terrier, and only 30 lbs)
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I assume she was half Miniature Pinscher or was it a small Doberman Pinscher?

Michiyo-Fir · 08-26-2009, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ioreks_mom

we were walking iorek on a off leash dog walking trail and a man came up to me and asked what mix he was. uh, he is a samoyed. i think that they look pretty unique, hard to mix up with something else.

Actually a while ago I asked a Samoyed owner what kind of dog she had which now I feel ashamed about. But that dog was just shaved (very hot 100 degree weather) and didn't look like a samoyed. Looked more like a shaved down standard poodle with pointy ears. He was completely shaved, almost no fur left so I couldn't tell.

Foyerhawk · 08-26-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Michiyo-Fir

Actually a while ago I asked a Samoyed owner what kind of dog she had which now I feel ashamed about. But that dog was just shaved (very hot 100 degree weather) and didn't look like a samoyed. Looked more like a shaved down standard poodle with pointy ears. He was completely shaved, almost no fur left so I couldn't tell.

OMG that's horrible! LOL (Imagining a shaved Sammie... ack!)

hbowen87 · 08-26-2009, 03:17 PM

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I assume she was half Miniature Pinscher or was it a small Doberman Pinscher?

Miniature pinscher, hehe sorry brain failure there. The immigrant family that barely spoke English we got her from told us her mom was a doberman though, (we saw the mom, this was a ~6lb dog) but as a 7 year old when we got her I didn't know any different so I called her a doberman until i was about 12.

Hard habit to break completely. I promise that I know now that they're completely unrelated breeds, my brain just reverts to a 7 year old occasionally

ThoseWordsAtBest · 08-26-2009, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Michiyo-Fir

Actually a while ago I asked a Samoyed owner what kind of dog she had which now I feel ashamed about. But that dog was just shaved (very hot 100 degree weather) and didn't look like a samoyed. Looked more like a shaved down standard poodle with pointy ears. He was completely shaved, almost no fur left so I couldn't tell.

I think it's nice you asked. I think if you don't know, it's polite to ask and not just say "What a cute (insert dog breed here)!" Some people actually are offended when you get the breed wrong. My boyfriend gets so huffy when someone thinks Jack is a Siberian Husky.

I have to remind him we're in Michigan, not Norway, so sometimes people aren't going to know what his dog is.

Thracian · 08-26-2009, 04:38 PM

I've told this story before, but here it is again. I took Clayton to the vet for a puppy wellness check, and a woman leaving the office asked if I dyed his hair.

Um, no.

I can't imagine trying to dye around his eyes!

cece6 · 08-26-2009, 04:42 PM

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Then there was the guy who kept insisting that my Boston Terrier is a black and white Boxer puppy

We had someone say the exact same thing about our Boston too.
Not really funny but everyone always askes what kind of dogs are those with our Italian greyhounds.Then they say "you should get a real greyhound"..Whatever..

ThoseWordsAtBest · 08-26-2009, 04:46 PM

Oh, and if we could include stupid questions we've been asked about dogs at work, I'll throw in the lady who asked me if it was safe to paint her dogs teeth with nail polish. Despite my horrific objections, she explained she only wanted to use white because they were so yellow and dirty looking.

hbowen87 · 08-26-2009, 04:49 PM

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Oh, and if we could include stupid questions we've been asked about dogs at work, I'll throw in the lady who asked me if it was safe to paint her dogs teeth with nail polish. Despite my horrific objections, she explained she only wanted to use white because they were so yellow and dirty looking.

...wow...just wow

cece6 · 08-26-2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ThoseWordsAtBest

Oh, and if we could include stupid questions we've been asked about dogs at work, I'll throw in the lady who asked me if it was safe to paint her dogs teeth with nail polish. Despite my horrific objections, she explained she only wanted to use white because they were so yellow and dirty looking.

OMG

that is just nuts.You should have asked her if she would paint her own teeth with nail polish..How would you hold the dogs mouth open long enough for the stuff to dry anyway????? That person really shouldnt have a dog.

Foyerhawk · 08-26-2009, 06:12 PM

I know you are not making that up, but I wish you were!

deege39 · 08-26-2009, 06:18 PM

Kids ran up to me the other night, "Can we pet your dog? Can we pet your dog?" They were sweaty, exhausted from running to catch me, and panting heavily, so I said, "No, he doesn't like kids... Sorry." and the one kid asked, "Are you sure?" 0.0 Ummm... I said, "Would you like to ask him?" at that exact moment Donatello started barking and carrying on at a squirrel...