does it ever bother you?

[coco-bean]

does it ever bother you when people call your dogs boy or girl...when it's the opposite sex that they are calling it?
i have cainan wearing a green collar with a green leash and corona and coco where pink and pink...but for some reason no matter where we go everyone is always calling cainan the girl and coco the boy...and corona is just "so adorable" that she doesnt have a sex when people give her attention!it drives me crazy that even though the colors of collar and leash are VERY different, people still call coco a boy and cainan a girl! Grr... does anyone else bothered when this happeneds?

[borzoimom]

People, because of Hotties color, call him a female all the time- uhh he has a males coat?? and uh a few other parts.. lol. I have told it is because of his face- well he looks masculine to me...

[coco-bean]

People, because of Hotties color, call him a female all the time- uhh he has a males coat?? and uh a few other parts.. lol. I have told it is because of his face- well he looks masculine to me...

haha, its just odd to me especially will cainan because of his male "part" that is only VERY obvious to see when he is walking, just because he's an inch or two shorter than coco doesnt mean that he's a girl! Just irritating i suppose!

[borzoimom]

haha, its just odd to me especially will cainan because of his male "part" that is only VERY obvious to see when he is walking, just because he's an inch or two shorter than coco doesnt mean that he's a girl! Just irritating i suppose!

I mean look at the coat difference in the last photos attached of the stack with hottie- then look at femka or galina- I mean a adult mature males coat is obvious to me... Its much longer etc..

[Uabassoon]

For some reason I've never really cared. It's not like with people where usually you can tell from far away if someone is male or female. I honestly think that Payson wouldn't be offended if someone called him a she, as long as they were petting him and telling him that he's beautiful he could care less what he is called!

[Kfamr]

Everyone calls Mufasa a girl - when you can clearly see his "thing."
Kiara is often called a boy, although she always has pink or purple collars.
People mistake Nala for a boy, I suppose because of her size?
Simba is never mistaken - he's 100% handsome male!

It doesn't bother me that much, I just correct them politely, and they usually never make the mistake again.

[chocolatepuppy]

People always think Lacey is a boy, I guess I do get upset because it's all the time. I try to remember though, I have female dogs and cats and tend to think of all dogs and cats as females. When I had my RB Corey, a male dog, I tended to think of all dogs as male.

[lute]

Everyone calles Beanie a girl and Gracie a boy. Mom says Beanie is too pretty to be a boy. it doesn't really bother me really. sometimes I don't even tell them any different because when they figure out their names they know.

[Twisterdog]

I don't pay a bit of attention to it, if it's just a passerby on the street. If they say, "Oh, he's so cute!" to Lucky, who is a girl, I don't correct them. Why? Chances are they will never see me or my dog again. It just doesn't matter.

I correct family members, or close friends, who will see my dogs umpteen times over.

I own a grooming shop and a boarding kennel, and it's actually a peeve of mine when people get huffy and insulted when you get the sex of their animal wrong. Come on ... we groom and board thousands and thousands and thousands of animals, it's really not possible to memorize the sex of every one. If the dog's name is Brutus or Hank, we assume it's a boy. If the dog's name is Lacie or Suzie, we assume it's a girl. However, we have female dogs named Sam, Toby, Spike .... and we have male dogs named Muffin, Kaya and Lanie.

I certainly don't mind if people politely correct me, I just hate that self-righteous attitude .... "Hrrrrmmp! You should KNOW Muffin is a boy!" How?? He's a shih tzu with a lot of hair, his name is Muffin, and we've never groomed him before!