the barmy questions you get asked when your walking your dog...

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i took my two out for a quiet (i wish) walk and as i was walking along a guy who was going the opposite way from me stopped me and asked 'is the long haired one an akita?'
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now i wouldnt say either of mine have long hair and neither of them look like an akita
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then a bit further on i got stopped by a couple of older ladies who were fawning over chaos then one of them turned to me and said 'oooh he is beautiful but is it not dangerous keeping a wolf as a pet?'
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i must attract the crazies
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so has anyone else been asked a completely barking question while they have been walking their dog?
 
Hahaha!

I am friendly with the dog warden up here and the amount of people he says report pit bulls which turn out to be boxers and akitas is not funny.

I get asked if B is a wolf or part wolf quite a lot. I just point to Bella and go - 'Well, that's his sister, what do you think?'
Other times I offer to show them his five-generation pedigree
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His breeder's father was hiking up a mountain with his bitch in preparation for the German Sieger show (she was very highly placed there before, a super example of the breed) and two men stopped and said 'Aren't you lucky having that husky to pull you up the hill!)
He was mortified
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Usually when the greyhounds have been muzzled "do they bite then?" (my reply: no, they will murder your small fluffy dog though)

"arent they thin, dont you feed them"

"do you race them"

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i have no idea how i kept a straight face, im so glad i wasnt walking with the girls i usually walk with, one of them has an inuit (she really does look like a wolf), and the other has a husky not sure what the ladies whould have made of them
 
I get these all the time

"wow thats what I call a pack"?

"Must cost you a fortune to feed those"?

"Are u Cesar Millan...?"Do I look like a small male mexican with a moustache
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Is that a husky, samoyed, Mamalmute?......"No it's a fecking akita"

"Would you consider breeding from your...."whatever the fluffy thing is".........The akita....NO!

"Has your blue brindle whippet been castrated, would you consider studding him out"..............NO!

"Would you take my dog"......NO!
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I was walking my english mastiff and my golden retriever and someone said "ooo what lovely dogs are they GSDs?" I didn't know what to say!!!
 
Oooh I like this game! Tilly is having gender identity issues after comments we've had over the last few weeks - one of the conversations went like this:
"Oh he's nice"
Me: Thanks - She's called Tilly
"How old is he?"
Me: SHE is 4 or 5 we think - SHE was a rescue case.
"Oh good for you, has he been difficult"
Me: No, SHE hasn't been...(inwardly: not as difficult as you are mate!)

She was also mistaken for a Daschund - because Sprocker crosses apparently "look quite sausage-like!" I'll swear to my dying day, Till growled at the bloke who said that! Naughty boy...I mean girl
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I was walking my english mastiff and my golden retriever and someone said "ooo what lovely dogs are they GSDs?" I didn't know what to say!!!

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PMSL that has to be the best one so far
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I was stopped at Badminton a few years back by an elderly couple who puported to be from WHippet rescue, and ased if my dog was an Italien greyhound, no it's a three month old lurcher - surely they shoul have known the difference.

And the most recent one - 'what dog is that', 'it's a working cocker', cue then ' no it's not, that's not a cocker! in outraged tones... yes it is retard, now bugger off and leave us alone!
 
I have a shiba inu, who everyone thinks is a husky
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But the best was when i was walking her a few weeks ago and a young girl walked up to me and asked

"is your dog a lamborghini?"

I looked down, but no......still a shiba
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All the time: Is that a pug? Is that a French Bulldog? Once: Is that a JRT?
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Once: Is that a baby Pit Bull?
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Less so now with her funky glass eye, but everyone used to think Stella was about six-months-old.
 
Walking a Standard Poodle and stopped at a crosswalk. A little Greek boy beside me.
Little Greek Boy: What is that? Is Sheep, no?

Another crosswalk, waiting for the light to change. Another little boy beside me.
Little Boy: What kind of dog is that?
Me: She's a Standard Poodle.
Long pause while little boy considers the dog.
Little Boy: Could you not afford an automatic, then?
 
spotty scotty - I LOVE IT! LOVE IT!

Yep, I get stoooopid comments too but I find now most of the time they come in the shop where I groom dogs.

My favorite: I had a woman that used to bring her Bichon to me - (perhaps it was my choking back laughter that made her go elsewhere). Anyway, she phoned me to say that she wasn't sure if she should come in with her little bichon to be groomed because she was coming in to season. I told her it was fine, she could bring her anyway. So she replies "Oh, I wasn't sure - cos I know that you often have lots of Bichons in at once, and I didn't want her to get pregnant".

Erm....what do you say to that???
 
Slightly o/t but when my daughter was about 3 we drove past a farmyard where a large red chow was lying in front of the buildings. Without showing any excitement my daughter turned to me and said "I've never seen that lion there before".
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And the most recent one - 'what dog is that', 'it's a working cocker', cue then ' no it's not, that's not a cocker! in outraged tones... yes it is retard, now bugger off and leave us alone!

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My Parent's get that one ALL the time, My Dad's cockers are Liver Roan and he gets told they are Springers.
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My Mum gets told what breed her dog is too - 'Oh, that's a Labradoodle'... 'No, it's not, it's and Irish Water Spaniel'... 'No, it's a Labradoodle, my friend has one just like it but it's black'.. cue my Dad holding black my Mum, who has started emitting steam from her ears 'No, it's a bl@@dy IWS, and they only have one coat colour, BROWN!!!!'
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Whilst I was at Burghley this year, someone pointed at Otto and said, 'Oh, look at the Dalmatian'
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Otto was most offended!!
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Peanuts ALWAYS gets mistaken for a Maremma Sheepdog.

Ok, in Italy Maremma Sheepdogs are more common than golden retrievers, but even so...can't they see she is NOT white?!

Since having Florimell, it's been a feast of dumb questions. Most people will ask if she's a Chihuahua, and when we reply she's an Italian greyhound, they ALL always, invariably, inevitably say 'oh, a greyhound! it's a puppy then! How old is she, she is soo tiny'. I honestly don't think they believe me when I say IGs are a toy breed. They all leave convinced that I am deluded and, despite what silly me says, she will eventually grow into a 'proper-sized' greyhound.

Ah, I've lost count of the number of times we've been accused of starving her
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I have a lab, and once got asked as she spotted a squirrel and proceded to chase it ( they are her very favourite game
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) "Ooh have you taught her to herd sheep as well?"
"errr no. A) she's a lab B) trust me she's not trying to herd that squirrel!
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We had a blue merle collie with a blue eye, we were often asked is she as blind in that eye. A small boy also asked if she was a Hyinea.
Overheard a father telling his little girl our Spinone was a large spaniel.
 
I used to get the doberman puppy queries so often with my MinPin that at one point I was going to get a tee shirt emblazoned with "They're NOT PUPPIES" across the chest. However, I figured that might draw some rather strange comments.
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Last night I was at the hairdressers and one of the staff's two young kids were there chip-chappin away to me as they do - really really cute. They've been in to my shop to visit my three dogs - they knew that my old girl is a MinPin. They knew that Merlin's a poodle. But then they were asking me about Chester, my mongrel...(which is a rather common breed for this area - a border terrier....). Tee hee.
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I often get folk booking in their cockers - and for grooming purposes I always find it useful to know ahead of time how much work it's going to be-- so I often ask "Is it a working type or a show type?" <as show types tend to be a bit hairier and take longer to dry/brush etc> and they often say "Oh, it's just a pet". And DON'T get me started on those that don't know what breed of dog they have: Lassoo Apsoo, Bison Frish, Shizoo, Dulux dogs, Standard Yorkie, or say they have a collie - and when asked if it's a Border, Bearded, Rough, Shetland Sheepdog - they just haven't got a clue... OOPS, got myself started.
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EVERYBODY says 'ooh, you've got your hands full' when I'm walking my five. Not stupid because yes I have, but not original either! And like all the other greyhound/sighthound owners people are always telling me they don't like to see dogs so thin.........and that's usually by people with grossly overweight dogs at their sides
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Oh I could scream at the countless people who think that Pops is a lab puppy!!
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One of the funniest ones I can think of, was years ago, walking Puppy when she was in her prime, and a young boy pointed at her and said "Look, it's one of those police dogs!"
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It always used to amuse me when Eliie used to do her fear agression act when she saw another dog and I used to get " Oh my god don't let go of that dog!" Firstly, why would I?! And secondly, had I let go of her, she'd have ran all the way home with her tail between her legs scared out of her wits by the piddly JRT.

Another one that gets me is when visitors or guests come round, see Ellie and then all the cats and then say 'Oh so she doesn't mind cats then!?', like it is the strangest thing in the world for a GSD to like cats. Granted she does take it too fair with her cat love to the point I think she thinks she is a cat.....
 
Funniest we`ve every been asked is can our dogs do karate
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Blue eyed sibe - is he a rare black and white GSD
- Oh poor boy being blind *rolls eyes*

Diablo (sibe) - What a lovely collie
- Hes such a lovely malamute
- Hes not a real husky he doesnt have blue eyes

Loco (malamute) - Shes not a malamute she doesnt have blue eyes
- Is HE and AKITA

When we first got Loco our neighbours who have known both our boys since pups asked why we hadn`t said we had a litter of puppies as they know a friend looking for a husky, they thought Loco was a product of the boys mating *rolls eyes*
 
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