rabatsa
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This reminds me of the time I was walking a male goat along a riverbank. A gentleman asked me what breed was my dog?
What is the most stupid thing said to you by another dog owner??
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QuantockHills
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when I had my Great Dane.... 'why don't you put a saddle on him'.... must have heard this at least 50 times.....
Indy
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My little Border Collie stopped to have a wee on some grass (council looked after grass) outside a house. The woman who lived there was unloading her car and said a bit aggressively I hope you're going to pick that up. To which I replied what would you like me to do suck it up with a straw.
MurphysMinder
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That’s mean spelling it like that ! ?
Rokele55
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A neighbour once brought his girlfriend and her dogs (neutered, male Manchester terriers) to visit my very recently whelped terrier bitch and her puppies. Fortunately I was out and had actually remembered to lock the door, he came round later to say they were sorry not to have seen them and introduced her little doggies to them as they hadn't seen tiny puppies before. He was very surprised when I pointed out that my bitch would have ripped the heads of any unknown 'doggie visitors' and probably savaged his girlfriend to boot, then quite possibly eaten her puppies. The girlfriend was slightly.... odd, but i would have expected better from the neighbour!
sbloom
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I REALLY have to bite my tongue on that one, it was amusing to explain my job the first umpty-million times....then there's "hope you've got a big house", "that's a pony not a horse"...I'm sure there are others that don't come under the vaguely-sensible-question tag.
paisley
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The idea by more than one person that because the mostly whippet is 1/8 collie, that this is the reason for his ability to sit/down/ recall etc and not steal food. Nothing to do with hours and hours of training ?
Pearlsasinger
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After having to have one of the 6 yr old Rotters pts we got 2 Lab pups, 1 black, 1yellow, to keep the remaining Rotter company. I lost count of the number of people who asked if they were her pups. NO, she is black and tan with the usual Rottweiler markings, while the pups are both solid coloured, although admittedly the yellow is really butterscotch coloured and almost matches the Rotter's tan. But them many people asked what the Rotters were when they were pups - they couldn't really have been anything else but several people were surprised.
The Irish Draft 2022
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They do have blue tongue it only the pure breed it nothing to do with bears . It only cause by to much pigment and overbreeding.A friend who owned a rather lovely black chow chow proudly informed me she had a black tongue because they are directly descended from bears!I laughed thinking she was joking and I remembered vaguely that some bears had black tongues. I explained that it was impossible for the dog to have bear ancestors as they are totally different species, but some bears did also have black tongues, she was truly offended.
She even called her husband into the conversation to back up her claim. I am shocked to say that her husband who is a primary school teacher was equally offended and also insisted that it was true that the chow chow is descended from bears!
I think it was from that point that our 'friendship' tended to seep away into the no longer compatible section of my social sphere lol!
Mrs. Jingle
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Oh totally - I was not denying the dog had a very dark blue tongue, that was not the issue. It was how adamant she (and her OH) were that the tongue colour definitely meant it was absolutely indisputable fact that her ancestors were bears! I have to wonder where she did her research on the breed before buying the dog!
Nicnac
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Stick and flick is fine in the woods, not on a path which is used by kids on bikes, horses etc. She flicked it with her shoe which is gross. She defo lacked the common sense gene!
Parrotperson
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????
Parrotperson
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same but with Irish wolfhound ??
Parrotperson
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my dog wee'd once with a lady walking past. she said "are you taking that home" too. I said oh its ok she just wee'd. She said (and I kid ye not!) "you should really bring a Tupperware container with you to catch it".
I was extremely hard pressed not to swear.
AShetlandBitMeOnce
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'Get that vicious thing away from my children' at which point my long legged staffy companion was literally laying belly up with her tongue lolling out.
Parrotperson
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eek! Way to make you kids frightened of animals in general not just dogs.
ponyparty
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Oh my GOD! Why ever would they do that?! Not to mention the fact that their dogs may have attacked the puppies (if your bitch had let them get anywhere near). My dog would have probably tried to eat the puppies, he absolutely detests puppies! Absolute recipe for disaster in so many ways *facepalm*
(Secretly wondering if I know (of) them as the Manchester Terrier world is pretty small
)Annette4
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I used to get asked if Jack (tri colour Pembroke corgi) was a GSD x Jack Russel all the time, when I explained what he was I then always got 'no, corgis and red and white'
AmyMay
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The NT actively encourage stick and flick.
Nicnac
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But not right next to the path? She used her shoe and kicked it with her foot - it was massive so moved just to the side of the path. It defo wasn't a stick and flick job.
conkers
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Both of these within the last few weeks.
- Is he a Daschund? No. He's a whippet.
- Met a woman with an off lead cocker spaniel who came over to my dog and was playing with him whilst I still had him on the lead. This little spaniel was bouncing around, jumping around and trying to get my puppy to chase him. So I let my puppy off the lead so they could run round properly. Cue the owner of the spaniel saying 'ooh. He'll be alright as long as he doesn't jump on mine. He had an operation last week'. I immediately offered to capture my little lad and put him back on the lead but she said - its alright as long as he doesn't jump on him.
I was imagining that it had been a minor operation seeing as her dog was running around off lead like a race horse and she wasn't calling him back. Oh no. Major intestinal surgery after he swallowed one of his toys. One week earlier!! I really didn't know what to say to that.
- Is he a Daschund? No. He's a whippet.
- Met a woman with an off lead cocker spaniel who came over to my dog and was playing with him whilst I still had him on the lead. This little spaniel was bouncing around, jumping around and trying to get my puppy to chase him. So I let my puppy off the lead so they could run round properly. Cue the owner of the spaniel saying 'ooh. He'll be alright as long as he doesn't jump on mine. He had an operation last week'. I immediately offered to capture my little lad and put him back on the lead but she said - its alright as long as he doesn't jump on him.
I was imagining that it had been a minor operation seeing as her dog was running around off lead like a race horse and she wasn't calling him back. Oh no. Major intestinal surgery after he swallowed one of his toys. One week earlier!! I really didn't know what to say to that.
Pearlsasinger
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AmyMay
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Blooming hell. Jo collie was lead walks only for weeks after a similar surgery ?
teddypops
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I had a fright one day hacking in the woods as for a split second I genuinely thought there was a bear appeared through the undergrowth to chase us. It was a massive dog of some sort, but just for a second, my brain screamed BEAR??
Country Mouse
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On the beach with my Golden Retriever, I was asked "How old was he when he became obedient?" I did not bother telling about his training classes, would take too long.
AmyMay
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I actually think it’s a really pertinent question. Certainly not one to be sneered at..
CorvusCorax
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Not quite the same but I was practicing retrieve over a portable hurdle to the side of a football pitch. It was a complete shitshow and I was on the verge of tears. I ended the session and turned around to take the dog back to the car whereupon a full family (parents and three kids) who I hadn't realised were behind me, gave us a proper round of applause. 'Obedience' is all relative ? they thought we were amazeballs.
My oldest dog is very snorty/screamy and used to get very excited at the first whiff of salt water and explode when we went over the first of a set of speed bumps at the beach car park.
I was getting ready one night and he was going bananas in his crate while the tailgate was up and a small boy passed by and asked HAVE YOU GOT A PIG IN THERE?
My oldest dog is very snorty/screamy and used to get very excited at the first whiff of salt water and explode when we went over the first of a set of speed bumps at the beach car park.
I was getting ready one night and he was going bananas in his crate while the tailgate was up and a small boy passed by and asked HAVE YOU GOT A PIG IN THERE?
P3LH
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I lose track. Last time I posted about it though I was made to feel the biggest antisocial bugger in the world. Which I am. I enjoy dog walks alone really, without being pestered - though I do love a chat with disapproving old people who seem to share my thought process despite being about forty/fifty years ahead of me.
Owning two quite ‘pop culture’ breeds (not that I own either of that reason) you get quite a lot of stupid.
for the corgi:
- where is the queen?
- are you a missing windsor?
- how far are we from Windsor/buck palace/balmoral? (This depends where we are in the country but is something we get quite a lot)
- ‘ah a corgi cross’ (she’s not a cross) ‘but she’s the wrong colour’
-what strange little legs she has
-ah corgis can go anywhere because they have a royal warrant
-does she bite? They’re all snappy aren’t they? (She only bites stupid people - usually evokes a response)
- when will you breed from her? (A womb equals money don’t you know)
- oh look she wants to play (she definitely does not want to play which is why she has pinned your irritating dog to the floor)
-oh with those little legs you should carry her, I bet she can’t walk far (she does hours of exercise and is still never quiet)
for the rough collie:
-no wells round here mate
- have you got sheep
- timmy isn’t here
- she’s lovely (always she)
- she’s very fluffy
- ah all lassie dogs are great with kids
- she doesn’t look that old (when I say please keep your puppy from jumping on him)
- bet they take loads of exercise
- them dogs need to live on a farm
- no mate that’s a Welsh collie
When dear Cooper was alive too, blue Merle traditional rough
- why ain’t it as hairy as the other one then?
- can’t be a lassie dog that’s the wrong colour
- he’s definitely got lurcher in him
- he’s definitely got Belgian shepherd in him
-trust me mate having a half blue eye means he’s blind in it
- the ones with sticking up ears are for working sheep, the other ones for showing
-what is it
general comments that stick out this year:
-couldn’t have dogs like that, not with all the inbreeding (from doodle poo owners)
- why do you make them walk so close to you (usually also from doodle poo owners)
- just let them off to play (from owner of anti social, Ill mannered, lock down dogs mainly)
- all dogs love to play
- worm her more, it calms them down (as boisterous corgi was happily charging around with her ball, obsessively focused on me and said ball - ignoring the boxer owned by the man who said this, who was trying to shag her. The dog, not the owner)
- he’s a Randy bugger but you can’t get these dogs nuts chopped off or the police think you fight them (staff owner)
- sold the other pup and got this one, he had a dark roof of the mouth so was a pedigree - the other one weren’t (an owner with XL bully types)
- no he’s not common like yours would have been, he’s the new papers type. They are different (from a KC Jack Russell owner who I told their dog was lovely and explained I grew up with a russell)
- they’re primitive, you can’t tell them off or it breaks the pack dynamic (from a man being dragged by four husky types and a pair of malamutes)
- I’m gonna train him to look after my autistic kid (owner of poorly socialised young lab who was terrified of everything by man who couldn’t train flea circus let alone therapy dog)
Owning two quite ‘pop culture’ breeds (not that I own either of that reason) you get quite a lot of stupid.
for the corgi:
- where is the queen?
- are you a missing windsor?
- how far are we from Windsor/buck palace/balmoral? (This depends where we are in the country but is something we get quite a lot)
- ‘ah a corgi cross’ (she’s not a cross) ‘but she’s the wrong colour’
-what strange little legs she has
-ah corgis can go anywhere because they have a royal warrant
-does she bite? They’re all snappy aren’t they? (She only bites stupid people - usually evokes a response)
- when will you breed from her? (A womb equals money don’t you know)
- oh look she wants to play (she definitely does not want to play which is why she has pinned your irritating dog to the floor)
-oh with those little legs you should carry her, I bet she can’t walk far (she does hours of exercise and is still never quiet)
for the rough collie:
-no wells round here mate
- have you got sheep
- timmy isn’t here
- she’s lovely (always she)
- she’s very fluffy
- ah all lassie dogs are great with kids
- she doesn’t look that old (when I say please keep your puppy from jumping on him)
- bet they take loads of exercise
- them dogs need to live on a farm
- no mate that’s a Welsh collie
When dear Cooper was alive too, blue Merle traditional rough
- why ain’t it as hairy as the other one then?
- can’t be a lassie dog that’s the wrong colour
- he’s definitely got lurcher in him
- he’s definitely got Belgian shepherd in him
-trust me mate having a half blue eye means he’s blind in it
- the ones with sticking up ears are for working sheep, the other ones for showing
-what is it
general comments that stick out this year:
-couldn’t have dogs like that, not with all the inbreeding (from doodle poo owners)
- why do you make them walk so close to you (usually also from doodle poo owners)
- just let them off to play (from owner of anti social, Ill mannered, lock down dogs mainly)
- all dogs love to play
- worm her more, it calms them down (as boisterous corgi was happily charging around with her ball, obsessively focused on me and said ball - ignoring the boxer owned by the man who said this, who was trying to shag her. The dog, not the owner)
- he’s a Randy bugger but you can’t get these dogs nuts chopped off or the police think you fight them (staff owner)
- sold the other pup and got this one, he had a dark roof of the mouth so was a pedigree - the other one weren’t (an owner with XL bully types)
- no he’s not common like yours would have been, he’s the new papers type. They are different (from a KC Jack Russell owner who I told their dog was lovely and explained I grew up with a russell)
- they’re primitive, you can’t tell them off or it breaks the pack dynamic (from a man being dragged by four husky types and a pair of malamutes)
- I’m gonna train him to look after my autistic kid (owner of poorly socialised young lab who was terrified of everything by man who couldn’t train flea circus let alone therapy dog)
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fankino04
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Aah those good old husky and Malamute owners that don't believe there dogs can be trained coz pulling, chasing prey, etc is what they were bred for, met far too many of them at breed walks ??
P3LH
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There is one that regularly tries to eat my friends small, quite hairy, terriers and the owner just laughs it off….says it’s part of the breed….morons