What sort of dog is that

GSD Woman said:
My German Shepherds are sable and the two bitches are bi-colors. I'm often asked if they're Belgian Malinois. One man asked me about my sable boy's bloodlines so I thought he knew GSDs and started talking about his breeding when the man cut in and asked what sort of mix he was.
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I wouldn’t mind if GSD’s weren’t built totally differently to Belgian Shepherd dogs 😂
 
GSD Woman said:
My German Shepherds are sable and the two bitches are bi-colors. I'm often asked if they're Belgian Malinois. One man asked me about my sable boy's bloodlines so I thought he knew GSDs and started talking about his breeding when the man cut in and asked what sort of mix he was.
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Lol. As I mentioned on another thread, my black LSH used to get called a Gronendael or a collie cross, lots of people think the sable is a mali/mali cross/wolf cross and someone who kept show GSDs thought he was crossed with a pit bull as his head is massive :p
 
GSD Woman said:
Malinois, at least in the USA, are fawnish with black mask. The Groendaal is the one that has the longish black coat.
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Yes I appreciate that, I was referring to the black shepherds CT was referring to? There are groendaals living down the road from me, and also 3 turverans so I’m very familar with the breed 😊
 
Chiffy said:
What about flatcoats then? No one ever knows what they are. Either Lab x Spaniel or some sort of setter.
A friend with a black one ( not even liver) got asked if it was a red setter!! 🤪
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I know what they are, I love them! I love Gordon setters too, there is one local to me and the lady was shocked I knew what he was when I first met them. I have a Affenpincsher and no one ever knows what she is either
 
Unsurprisingly Daisy just gets mistaken for a lab rather than the mutt (lab x gsp) she really is. Last week a lady (with a fabulous, fit, entire lab) asked me if she was neutered because she was just her type of lab. Did make me chuckle.
 

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vallin said:
Unsurprisingly Daisy just gets mistaken for a lab rather than the mutt (lab x gsp) she really is. Last week a lady (with a fabulous, fit, entire lab) asked me if she was neutered because she was just her type of lab. Did make me chuckle.
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She is very labbish in her body, isn't she? The head and ears are a bit pointerish though. :-)
 
I'm always getting told how fit my black labs are (they are solid black GSP's). I once had an old guy with two elderly black labs tell my dogs "You're going end up just like this one day!" .. i didn't have the heart to tell him i very much doubted it!
 

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vallin said:
Unsurprisingly Daisy just gets mistaken for a lab rather than the mutt (lab x gsp) she really is. Last week a lady (with a fabulous, fit, entire lab) asked me if she was neutered because she was just her type of lab. Did make me chuckle.
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Daisy reminds me very much my little girl Lexi, who we sadly lost last Summer, well before her time ...
 

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eatmyshorts said:
Daisy reminds me very much my little girl Lexi, who we sadly lost last Summer, well before her time ...
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They look very similar!

Clodagh, she has a very lab like body until you look at her from behind and watch her waddle with the very typical 'I've crapped my pants' pointer waddle 😂
 
pippixox said:
I get asked if my yellow lab (who was bought by original owners from a breeder and looked like an Andres puppy back then) is a young dog (he’s 3 so fully grown) or a cross breed, because he is a bit smaller than average and a lot skinnier than average (I know some people have fit and/or working labradors but sadly there seem to be mostly obese ones)
No this is what Labrador’s can look like when fit and healthy thanks!
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I have the same with my 6 year old yellow lab. They are really shocked when I say how old she is. She is also skinny/fit!
 
This is a very entertaining and informative thread.
Especially when pedigree dogs are questioned by people who don’t own them!
 
Joined by a friend at ringcraft this week and she thinks the long coated entlebucher-a-like is an Australian shepherd. When did they get so heavy, long and short?

Another comment today from someone who 'didn't realise they could be solid black', I just know they think he's a husky puppy. :p
 
I have a Bedlington, you can only begin to imagine what I get asked. is he a sheep, is he a goat. Is he a poodle cross. What sort of cross breed is he. Is he a long haired italian greyhound!

I have been told he cant be a Bedlington as he is not grey well he is some weeks and not others, it a typical Bedlington coat that changes colour weekly, from dark grey to nearly white, depending on the time of year, and where he is in his grooming,
 
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