YEP get that here too

> my friend took her pom to the vets and a vet nurse came over and had a go at her as cats are ment to be kept in baskets

OMG!  This was a vet nurse?  Didn't know a dog from a cat!!  I would have cracked up laughing.

> YEP get that here too

Well how bizarre....!
Remind me to move back to the more polite place. Or just remind me to buy a ton of breed-related merchandise next crufts.

Oh Brainless... just remembered I'm only 30 miles south of you now, so no flipping wonder there then! LOL

well there you go.

I had a judge ask me what Calida was on Sunday, I didn't mind because as others have said at least she had the dignity to ask.  She wasn't judging me by the way.

> OMG!  This was a vet nurse?  Didn't know a dog from a cat!!  I would have cracked up laughing.

Reminds me of when I took my MALE collie to the vet with a urine infection and the vet kept on calling him SHE. I must have corrected him at least 3 times! (I'm not with that vet practice now ;-) )

My Berns are often called Newfs, but it is those who insist they are Pireniean's that make me giggle...dohh wrong colour altogether!! I have had quite a few ask if they are Tibetan Mastifs... I think as there is a woman with 3 who walks in the same places as me.
When we have had enough of everyones kids running up to cuddle our big bears and Mother asks the breed we often say Collie rottie cross and smile as the whip the children out of "danger"!!!
When I had GSD's I had 3 all blacks and even while walking 6 together some being the standard black/gold I have had arguments that the black ones must be crossed with labs!!!
Sam you really must stop standing your Basset pups in grow bags!!!!
Aileen

LucyDogs, parents should so not be allowed to attend shows with you.  Some of the things my Mum has said ringside have had me wishing the floor would open up!!!

I was talking to a lady a while back who had a gorgeous 12 week Rottie pup with her, we were rudely interrupted by another lady shouting, 'ooooh, how exciting I'm picking up my Manchester Terrier next week too'.........................who sells these people puppies?! ;)

Oh dear Susie! Perhaps I should have thought of this before arranging to meet Dad for lunch at the Home Counties club show on Sunday..... Any American cocker people on here, I'm awfully sorry about my Dad - he means well! :-p

Heehee, I've officially banned my Mum after she called a Doberman 'one of those Rottador things'??! 

Although, if I hadn't banned her I think everyone else in breed would have after she announced loudly at Crufts that she wouldn't be coming next year because Fozzie didn't get placed and it was quite obvious he was the best dog in the ring :-O

Totally agree, my mother in law will not have it that my dogs are not perfect!! The only time we allowed her ringside we heard, "That judge needs their eye tested, look at the state of that one that came first!" we slunk off into the background, grabbing her on the way past!

Yes, my very pale chocolate bitch gets mistaken for a Chesapeake, or they ask if she's fox red, at least that's the same breed, just a different colour :)

I was told recently that my HWV pup was most definitely a Red Leicester!!!  (Correct me if i'm wrong but I think that's a cheese?!) I did try to put her right but the lady was absolutely sure because she knew someone who had one :-)  I had a strong urge to ask if her friend kept her's in the fridge - but I behaved myself :-)

Theres some funny ones here!

I don't mind if people get it wrong, after all some breeds people will only have seen in photos and they can be very misleading. Other breeds can look v similar UNLESS you stand them next to one another or you have something for size reference in a photo - often photos of dogs in breed books have nothing alongisde for a size reference and although it usually tells you the height, it isnt the same as seeing it with your own eyes.

I very much doubt i would tell a PGBV from a GBGV without them being stood next to one another, and I seriously struggle with some huskys at the bigger end of the scale to tell them from a smaller Malamute - again, stand the two next to one another and then I am fine.

What cheeses me off is telling someone the breed and having them laugh in my face and tell me ive been had, or that im making it up or similar, or them getting shirty at being corrected.

My deerhound is apparently a Lurcher (heck though a Lurcher who managed to qualify as a Deerhound for Crufts!) and when shes not a lurcher, shes actually an Irish Wolfhound (a really short, thin one...).

My Bedlington x Whippet is in fact a Wolfhound too, never mindt hat hes only 21" tall.. and he is also the puppy of the above Deerhound, even AFTER people have asked their ages and been told that the Deerhound is 3, and the little lurcher is 9....

The most amusing is my Saluki x Afghan, who I have to say is the most afghan looking xbreed ive ever seen - long hair to her tummy, sides, legs, chest, theh air on her ears is over a foot long.... No one guesses afghan at all. Ever. Someone did guess long haired dachshund which had she been lying down i could have kinda understood, but she was stood up at thetime and she does have some considerable legs!

Actually I saw some Irish Wolfhound puppies at a show and had to ask what they were as they didn't look like puppies and they didn't really look like wolfhounds either :-o

Mind you I always thought that Irish Wolfhounds were Steel grey coloured and Deerhounds were fawn - only recently learned that is not the case so now have to look twice as, like theemx I can't always tell unless I see them together!
I think you get to know the breeds that you are in the same group as and as we were all working (before pastoral group appeared) I would recognise most Pastoral/working. Now we have the Petit I am always guessing breeds in the hound group.

> I very much doubt i would tell a PGBV from a GBGV without them being stood next to one another

At the BGV fun day there was a gorgeous dog which I took for a spinone or some such cross but it was actually a Grand with long legs - all his litter mates had the normal short Basset legs but he was a throwback to the Grand griffon vendeen and his legs were long :-D

>My Bedlington x Whippet is in fact a Wolfhound too, never mindt hat hes only 21" tall.. and he is also the puppy of the above Deerhound, even AFTER people have asked their ages and been told that the Deerhound is 3, and the little lurcher is 9....

Oh, thanks for reminding me. My English Springer was the puppy of my Large Munsterlander, even though she was 7 years older ;-) Though to be fair they do look similar.

Oooh i forgot one..

My little crossbreed (whose parentage is lurcher x gsd but i heavily suspect he is a throwback to some bull&terrier influence on the lurcher side)...

Well he is a Rottweiler (or Rockweller or Rockviler etc etc)... because, he is black and tan. Naturally.

Of course he is also 18" tall and wire coated but when this is pointed out then obviously he must be a Rottie cross..  Except when hes being a border terrier (which fair play he does resemble a lot except being far too big).

I didn't think there was an upper size limit on dachs in the UK?  Some of the Standard Longs I have seen are huge, and could pass for Irish Setters with short legs.

the standard gives an Ideal weight of 9-12 kgs but no mention of height. I think odie is around 25kgs next time im down ill have to get a photo of the two tougher, little and large lol

OMG!  This was a vet nurse?  Didn't know a dog from a cat!!  I would have cracked up laughing
yeah she looked at her stupid and said he's a dog, vet nurse just said oh and walked off, she hasnt gone back there since.

> (or Rockweller or Rockviler etc etc)...

Now THAT would wind me up.  Or perhaps I'm just picky about the breed name pronounciations.

Even with the rarer breed names, that I have only ever seen in the written word - I will always ask a breed owner what is the correct pronounciation.

Me too JeanSW. I always ask,I could never pronounce the BSD's so I asked an exhibitor!
I shall never forget a friend of mine stewarding ( we were following this breed into the ring so I was watching) she called Burmese Mountain Dogs, so I miaowed and rib her every now and again!! Thankfully they were an amenable bunch of exhibitors :) 

I've remembered another of my early clangers - I'm a Harry Potter fan, and kept calling the Rhodesian Ridgebacks  - Norwegian Ridgebacks! Erm, that's a dragon..... :-D And I have to be careful saying Soft Coated Wheaten because they're an Irish breed (I think) and my hubby's favourite bread is called Irish Wheaten!

>I was told recently that my HWV pup was most definitely a Red Leicester!!!

I just love that - in fact I may ask if we can have a name change.

My 'Red Leicester' is currently asleep with his head wedged under the radiator I'm not sure his namesake could stand the same treatment...

Toasted cheese for lunch anyone? :)

People ask what breed daisy is all the time, she is a brown and tan dobe and a lot of people just dont think they exist!

I was once the pet shop and a lady came over to fuss daisy and told me she had a rescue weimeraner/dobermann cross who had come into rescue as a stray with awful coat condition. Well it just so happens that i have a friend with 2 Weim/Dobe crosses. They are all weim in looks but one is solid black and one is solid brown. So i said to the lady 'ohh i bet his enormous is he solid brown?' and she replied that no he looked exactly like a dobermann but he was the same colour as a weim but with the tan markings of a dobe.

So with out wanting to offend her and in a very good natured way i said to this lady, are you sure he's not a dobe? You know they come in 4 colours and the fawns/isabella is very like the colour of a weim.

Well she could not believe it! She said she never knew about the fawns or the blues and was going home to investigate on the net! She'd just gone on what the rescue centre had told her he was.

Now i see her quite often in the park telling everybody that her dog is not a weimy cross it is infact a fawn dobe!

and of course in the UK breeders avoid producing Blues and Fawns because of the coat/skin issues being more likely.

I am constantly (nearly every weekend) asked if my Vizsla's are Weims or Ridgebacks.... and also asked if Vizsla's & Weims are related...

> I am constantly (nearly every weekend) asked if my Vizsla's are Weims or Ridgebacks.... and also asked if Vizsla's & Weims are related... <

Ditto :)
I also did get asked by a neighbour if my Viz was a Yellow lab, i think because he saw all three together, he must of thought i had another Lab...

Just say yes, one is galvanised and one is rusty............................... Gema!

That's a lovely tale Hilly. Reminds me of the time our dog club trainer had given me the names and breeds of the next group for the puppy class I was taking, and she'd put down sprocker against one of them. When I saw the puppy he looked like a working cocker to me, so I asked and that's what she said he was, it was just the trainer not realising how different show and working can look. There was a show type cocker in that group too, you really wouldn't think they were both cockers!

..and my liver cocker pup has been mistaken (by flatcoat people!!) as a rather small flatcoat with rather long ears!!

Jo