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Kay, that theory cannot be completely true. Gonzo is always called a "she" or "pretty" by everyone! =P I think it might be because he's such a softy. Even 2 ladies on our Flyball team, who we've known for over a year, call Gonzo a "she"... and they have a male BC. It does get annoying, after you've said "No, he's a boy." 10x.
Strangely, everyone knows Fozzie is a wittle boy. He must exude masculinity ;)
Cali, I think the show you're referring to is "the Facts of Life". My best friend is a girl named Blair! So I also associate it with females.
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My current dogs don't get mixed up. Tommy is so large he's just obviously male :p.
But with Willie and Cody it was different. Sometimes both were called she, but Cody was ALWAYS called she. Because he looked like "lassie" I suppose. There may be something to the black dog thing as Willie was called she far less. I still remember one lady's response after I told her Cody was a boy "Oh but she's too pretty to be a boy!" Never forgot that one LOL. Ironic too considering males generally have the thicker/longer coats. :)
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my old dog Max was often called a girl.. I even saw people look at his belly & say, isn't she pretty.. ummm that wasn't a nipple lady lol :rolleyes:
I think most people thought Max was a girl because he was so slim & he was fixed. People who don't know squat about dogs don''t understand that the male part is inside the dog & doesn't hang like a humans.
I only think this becasue my mentally challenged friend looked at my dog while he was on his back & told me Max was a girl. When I asked why she said there was no testies (not her words, so I'm cleaning it up a little) & no penis. I said yes he has penis, its right there & she said no, because its not hanging, so it has to be a female.. long story short, I had to teach her about male dog parts. She never mistaken a male for a female ever again after that :D
So if my mentally chalenged friend thinks like that, I'm sure people who don't know squat about dogs, think the same way.
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I think, in general, people seem to think dogs are male. Not sure why. And, it used to be, before everything got so "politically correct", and it became "he/she", people referred to anything where the gender was unknown as "he." If I remember correctly, that was the "correct" way in English class. I still do that when I'm writing or typing or speaking although people think I am just assuming, when all I'm really doing is going by the way I learned in school, even if it is not as "PC"... I refer to everything as "he" unless or until I'm told otherwise. Or it's something obvious like a feminine name or color or something...but, even then, I've seen people put pink collars on male dogs. I know I'll sometimes just ask "is your pet male or female?" just to avoid annoying people. It has never bothered me in the past, though...my dog Bruno was small, so, I think that's why some people thought he was a girl, but, even then, that didn't happen often. I don't think anyone's ever asked if Finn was a girl...they just always call him a "him." But, it wouldn't bother me if people thought he was a girl.
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Snowy has been called a boy several times while wearing a pink collar and pink harness.
Although, it might have been because she has a blue leash... :p
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Yes. Snowy gets mistaken for a boy quite often, even here at Pet Talk :D
a gentle reminder for everybody, Snowy is a girl :)
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oh yeah
we got a kitten aqnd was told it was a female and wenamed her Nala. # weeks later at her 1st vet visit, the doc told us she was a HE!!! So now we need a new name and have to train our selves to stop calling him she and Nala. Also the pretty pink with stones collar looks silly now..lol!
