Stupid things we have seen today

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- A woman pushing a buggy and walking an extremely rotund lab on a flexi lead. The handle of the flexi lead was looped over one of the handles of the buggy. :eek:

As we passed the lab lunged out at us (flexi not locked), I darted forwards to block it with my knee so it didn't pull the bloody buggy over/start on my dog/continue into the road, woman rewards me with a dirty glare. :o

- "That's one of them, whatchamacallit, wotsit dogs. Very nasty, aren't they, very aggressive?"

Said by a man whose greyhound/whippety thing was snarling non-stop on the end of the lead and went to snap at him when he told it to pack it in. Nasty, aggressive wotsit dog was sat at feet desperately wagging tail.

- "My sister's got one of them inuit dogs, timberwolf, yeah."

If I had a penny for every person who said they had a wolf hybrid, I'd have... well, sixpence, probably. But still. Of all the ones I've met I've only been convinced by one, and that was imported under license from Canada and looked an awful lot more wolfy than the GSD/malamute cross from down the road that is supposedly half wolf. :p

If you're wondering about the amount of numpties I meet on an average day's walk, we don't see a single person while out and about cross-country but I made the mistake of taking a shortcut home through the park. All of the above numptiness occurred in the fifteen minutes it took us to cross said park. :o

Feel free to contribute, I'm procrastinating again this evening...
 
I wont join in, its bad for the blood pressure!
Poor you, some days numpties seem to flock towards me like bees to a hunny pot. You always get days where it seems like someone released all the numpties together from underneath the numpty rock! :mad:
 
I have seen or had the misfortune of meeting any numpties today, however I have clipped two cocker spaniels, one of which was so badly matted it came off like a sheep's fleece :rolleyes: the other wasn't as bad, but purely because it had a nicer coat - I last clipped them 6 months ago and they clearly haven't been brushed since :mad: I don't care how often people get their dogs clipped, but if they aren't going to brush them they need to bring them in much more regularly!
I had to hack out the worst bits, take the feathering really short and it still took me two hours to brush them out!

I did have my day brightened by walking a year olf mastiff, he is so big I could ride him down the lane, but softer than grease! I want him!!! :D :D
 
For top numpty behaviour, simply go to my woods: OH was walking Brig and the pups and had stopped to talk to the two old dears who we've known since we got Brig and Jake. One of them warned him that a known nasty dog was approaching, he hears a big commotion going on (Brig being attacked for the nth time) and idiot woman appears, hitting her nasty ill-socialised lab with his lead, shouting 'When will you learn?' Facepalm. When will she learn and either socialise the poor dog properly or muzzle it in public?
 
Ah, walking at night, no numpties :D

Blackcob, I phoned up to report someone selling wolf hybrids on Dumbdeal and the guy laughed his ass off and said if they were true wolf hybrids he would give me £100 :p
 
On Sunday a woman asked me if my 4 month old Patterdale was a labradoodle. When I said no, she's a Patterdale, she informed me ' you don't usually see those in black'
 
I still get the old "are they alsatians or german shepherds" occasionally. Most recent was at Weston Park on Saturday, one of the cadets asked his female "leader" (don't know what they are called), what Evie was and she told him an alsatian.:mad: I put them both right, later on in the day I heard her telling another cadet she was a german shepherd so thats hopefully the cadets of RAF Shawbury educated.:p
 
CaveCanem said:
Ah, walking at night, no numpties :D

Blackcob, I phoned up to report someone selling wolf hybrids on Dumbdeal and the guy laughed his ass off and said if they were true wolf hybrids he would give me £100 :p
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Having had a slobbery toy deposited on me for the eleventy billionth time this evening I think am going to have to start walking in the dark, she's missing her usual 9pm jaunt and driving me bloody mad. :o

In the interests of knowledge and generally being nosy I've just read the Defra report on wolf hybrids, they reckon that in the UK there's 8 wolf hybrids licensed to private owners but only one of them actually is one and the rest are probably domestic dog crosses sold as hybrids. :p

The RSPCA claims just over 100 probable wolfdogs in the UK but the report basically couldn't find any other than the one licensed one, the rest were wannabes and lookalikes and they thus estimate maybe 10 unlicensed true wolfdogs in the UK.

I still maintain that the one I met last weekend was one, she was distinctly 'other' compared to the million huskies around and a world apart from the GSD/mal crosses you usually see. Might have a photo somewhere as I got to have a squeeze, hang on...
 
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LOL, MM, on the Saturday I got "Is that a proper husky then?" in a sceptical tone. No, love, it's a fake one, I glued the eyebrows on. :p

Even breed-savvy people can be numpties, I spent a bored half-hour listening to a bloke at the husky meet wax lyrical about his mate's 'pure malamute' with 'piercing blue eyes'. :o
 
I'm gonna get a flors one with HUNGARIAN VIZSLA on....and a hoodie for myself with ''yes it is pronounced veesh-la in hungary but A) we are in england and B) you didnt know what it was before I told you, how did you just become a breed expert?!'' Do you think thats a bit long winded?! :p :D Or perhaps one for Flora with ''no I'm not small I'm actually fairly large for a vizsla bitch...dont tell my mum I'm stunted cos I'm way smaller than a pointer or a weim...she may punch you'' Again...perhaps a little long :D :D
 
Now this is true..promise.Years ago I used to breed pretty excellent obed/agility border collies.Me,of course, bred weird and wonderful colours..red merle/blue merle/slate merle..you name it..but not boring old black and white.ANYWAY,one summer it was extremely hot..you can tell it was ages ago by that..and I decided to clip out the collies.Got a bit inventive,so they had feathers on the front legs,a half plume tail and bushy ears..and mine mostly had upright ears. ANYWAY ,this twerp comes along to board his dog..pauses and asks "what breed are they"?? Could`nt resist it could I? "Oh they `ve just come out of quarantine,first domestic ones in UK, African Hunting Dogs"..He believed
me.
 
Vizslak said:
I'm gonna get a flors one with HUNGARIAN VIZSLA on....and a hoodie for myself with ''yes it is pronounced veesh-la in hungary but A) we are in england and B) you didnt know what it was before I told you, how did you just become a breed expert?!'' Do you think thats a bit long winded?! :p :D Or perhaps one for Flora with ''no I'm not small I'm actually fairly large for a vizsla bitch...dont tell my mum I'm stunted cos I'm way smaller than a pointer or a weim...she may punch you'' Again...perhaps a little long :D :D
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Ooh catchy! :D

Last week in some woods, a couple of odd blokes appeared from the undergrowth straightening their clothes :eek: as they walked past, one of them asked "are they hunting dogs?" "Yes" I replied not wanting to get into a conversation with them "oh what do they hunt then?" "rabbits and perverts" I replied :rolleyes:
 
I'm going to get a t shirt with 'Yes, he's full Weimaraner, yes he has long hair, no it won't fall out. No, I didn't pay any extra for the long hair and yes, if you let your small yappy dog run up to him and snap at him while he's on a lead, he will bite it.'

Just as well I'm a porky old bag to fit all that on, hey?
 
Ah, see with scruffy unbreed I get no such questions. :D

I do however always get stopped by people to ask where the "little brown one" went and had he lost the anger issues. :o Although I think most people know now. :D
 
I saw a chap at Badminton with what I believe was an Irish Wolfhound; he was wearing a t-shirt with the following printed on it:

Yes, he is big isn't he?
Yes, he does eat a lot.
No, I don't put a saddle on him and ride him.

:D :D
 
My t-shirt would say:

1. We don't know what he's crossed with
2. We got him as a rescue puppy
3. Yes he does look like he has Husky and GSD in him along with his Collie colouring!

I didn't sign up for a sled dog but as Stevie has matured he definitely has a husky tail, I shall try and get a pic and so you can see what I mean....
 
Am not sure what my t-shirt would say, probably "owner just as crazy"!!

Today in the vets we saw two :eek: :eek: things.....

1 - a very sweet and very upset old lady with a very ill terrier type as she had fed it a whole box of chocolates :rolleyes:

2 - a lady who decided to ignore my repeated requests to keep her collie pup away from my stressed spaniel (he *just wanted to play*) resulting in Archie snapping at it and her telling me I have an aggressive dog :mad: :mad:
 
JoG said:
1 - a very sweet and very upset old lady with a very ill terrier type as she had fed it a whole box of chocolates :rolleyes:
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Ooh, that reminds me, I was recently recounting to my grandparents the tale of Daxy's eating of the packet of raisin cereal and the subsequent £60 trip to the vets to have it all puked back up. They couldn't understand why I'd taken her to the vets - I explained that raisins are poisonous - my nan slowly blanches and admits that since he was a pup they've been buying their JRT bags of chocolate-covered raisins from the corner shop, at least weekly, because he 'really likes chocolate'. :eek:
 
Blackcob- Your nan reminds me of my mother! We've had the following conversations....

Mum: Loki looooves chocolate, I gave him some earlier. You should have seen him licking his lips!
Me: Chocolate is poisonous to dogs. You KNOW this. Do not do that again.
Mum: But he loves it! He's my friend when I give him treats.. (these were her actual words! :eek:)

Mum: I'm going to give Loki a chocolate.
Me: No, you're not.
Mum: I am, he likes them....
Me: *various repetitions on the theme of 'do so and I shall cause thee pain, much pain'*
Mum: Well, I'm going to give him one when you're not around then. (Said in a tone of voice more suited to a petulant 5-year old).

She feeds him off her plate, once even allowed him to eat FROM her plate.... and then complains when my da and I are able to eat our dinner in peace, and hers is being snatched from under her nose. Needless to say we're both rather blunt with our lack of sympathy. What irritates me the most is she KNOWS better, she really does. I can only assume she is becoming senile and deaf with age :mad:
 
Pix said:
Mum: I'm going to give Loki a chocolate.
Me: No, you're not.
Mum: I am, he likes them....
Me: *various repetitions on the theme of 'do so and I shall cause thee pain, much pain'*
Mum: Well, I'm going to give him one when you're not around then. (Said in a tone of voice more suited to a petulant 5-year old).
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Have you tried hitting her or caging her? I reckon that would work really well!

I swear to God, I would KILL my mother (not much persuasion needed, frankly) if she did that. Duh!
 
fadedv said:
I saw a chap at Badminton with what I believe was an Irish Wolfhound; he was wearing a t-shirt with the following printed on it:

Yes, he is big isn't he?
Yes, he does eat a lot.
No, I don't put a saddle on him and ride him.

:D :D
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I want a t-shirt with this written on for when im walking Sonny :rolleyes:
 
Mine would be;

1. If you see me walking away. Don't follow me!
2. No he's not a pure German shepherd.
3. Your dogs hanging off his ear, and no. That isn't playing.

:p
 
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