Breed confusion?

[heinz57_79]

People always ask me if Charlie is chloe's son... Do they LOOK anything alike??? Being a groomer, I've seen all sorts of "breeds"... one thing that always irritated me was hearing a yellow lab referred to as a Blonde Lab. I Put down "yellow lab" on the info sheet, and the owner goes "NO! He's a BLONDE lab!" Whatever you say! And someone the other day just told me they had a brindle lab, who's mom was a blue lab. I HATE know it alls who think they know everything about everything!

I know this is a wee bit off the subject but it makes me think about the last time I was at the dog park. This woman had an aggressive terrier mix who started THREE fights while I was there. Rules are, 1 fight and you leash your dog and go home. She refused to do it, in fact, spent the whole time on her cell phone. The last fight, she attacked a GSD puppy and ripped his lip. We were up in arms! We told the woman she needed to get the &*^%#! out before we beat the crap out of her. (We were a littled POed ) She eventually did, but there was this nosy know-it-all who insisted that the dog wasn't aggressive, but was exhibiting dominance. I told her she was an idiot, and just about everyone agreed with me. She was one of those people who had owned dogs, and so she obviously knew EVERYTHING about them. Later on that evening, she took a hand to a friend's dog when she and a pit puppy were playing too close to her. All 6 of us almost got up and went over to smack her around a little.

Sorry for the vent... just me going off on a tangent!

[tikeyas_mom]

People always think Tikeya is a wolf, and a male.. UGH

People ALWAYS say that Baby looks like a weimeraner*sp?*.. She doesnt even look like one... Dumb...

[guster girl]

A lot of people ask if Finn is a golden retriever. He's a yellow lab, just more of the redder yellow. What's really irritating, is when people ask if he's a labrador or a retriever. I'm like, huh? I always answer "he's actually a labrador retriever." So, I said this last night to a friend of mine at a pool party, and, he said "ah, they don't like the water as much as labs, though." I was dumbfounded. Finn just wasn't in the mood to swim alone (there was too much food around, too!), but, I wanted to ask him what the heck he was talking about, but, I let it be. I noticed someone said something about people saying "golden labradors", that drives me crazy!!!

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Originally posted by micki76
Oh, my husband doesn't even understand the difference! I love it when he says Golden Labrador about a Yellow Lab

Oh, I hate that!

When someone says that, I always get confused if they're talking about a Golden/Lab cross, or a Yellow Labrador. Just say "YELLOW", people!

[Aspen and Misty]

No one knows what any of my dog's are Waa ha ha.

Everyone looks at Connor and says "What breed is he?" and I always say, A brown one

With Nova, when they ask I always say a Chinook Mix, they are like Oh a Chinook ...LOL, like they know what one is then with Breeze she is always A Lab.

Ash

[countrycowgirl]

well eveyone always says (when looking at little bit) aww what a cute jack russell or look its a fox terrier ..... I just smile and kindly say thank you but he is a Rat Terrier ..... everyone always asks if chewie has lab in her ..... and she doesnt even look like one to me anyways... and everyone can pretty much figure out that roxey has beagle in her

[bizdevguy]

after 9 years of Buddy being a "golden/border collie mix" I learned that he may actually be a nova scotia duck tolling retriever....but that's too tough to say, and I'm used to saying the other...so he's a golden/border collie mix. Although there are onlya few Tollers in Atlanta, so it'd be "sexier" to call him that....

[Toller 42]

I often get asked if Tango is a belgian tervuren/golden retriever mix! she is actually a Border-collie/Toller mix. Once I even had a woman argue with me that there is no such breed as the Nova scotia duck tolling retriever, and then she kept going on and on about how she knew all dog breeds in the world!!!!!!

[Toller 42]

Could I please see a picture of buddy!

[stacwase]

People always thought Jake was a collie. I can understand that, though, because he was so big. He weighed about 45 lbs - a lot for a Sheltie.

[pitc9]

Everyone knows what Buddy is, but with Sierra, I've had a lot of people ask if she's part wolf.

[wolflady]

Originally posted by Toller 42
I often get asked if Tango is a belgian tervuren/golden retriever mix! she is actually a Border-collie/Toller mix. Once I even had a woman argue with me that there is no such breed as the Nova scotia duck tolling retriever, and then she kept going on and on about how she knew all dog breeds in the world!!!!!!

LOL LOL I just had to laugh because self-proclaimed know-it-alls like this annoy me!

A lot of people ask me what Priya is, and I always tell them she's a Heinz 57! I don't even know what she is! She must have some dachshund in her, because she has that sort of body frame, long and low to the ground, but her face is completely wrong for the dachsie body. She has a very spitz-like foxy face! She's all black with one little white blotch on her chest. She also has a spitz tail. I'm thinking perhaps dachshund/papillon or dachshund/pomeranian....who knows?!! LOL

Fun thread!
**hugs**