Originally posted by binka_nugget
- People giving commands to my dogs without even realizing what the commands really mean. This one girl comes over from time to time and tells Kai to down when he jumps up on her. I can't stand it! Down for him is lay down..not stop jumping. I've told her before and it still happens.
Oh I can take it one step further. I had a lady argue with me that Emily was indeed a collie. Her daughter had come up to me to ask if she could pet Em, and I said yes, and her mom piped in "That's a collie dog like lassie" and I said actually she is a shetland sheepdog also called a sheltie. The lady got angry with me and told me she knew her dog breeds and that was a collie.
- If Clipse is jumping up on me and I say down, he lies down. If I say off, he springs off of me.
- People yelling "Fido come! Come! Come here fido! Come!" to their dog over and over again when it's obvious that the dog won't.
I hate when people call my dog to come. That's their formal recall command. Unfortunately many people over use it so I'm re-training my dogs so that their formal command will be "front" instead of come.
- People who greet me by saying "IT'S A LASSIE!" when they see my dogs.
Now of course I get "oh look a lassie dog and a border collie...."
At least they got the breed right!!Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver
I can't believe I forgot that one!
ARGH, you don't know HOW many times Molly gets called Lassie every flippin' day. Excuse me, but she has a name!Lassie was played by male dogs anyway...
Get it right people!
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