Well I have been asked many strange things while walking Sal (SBT) but today had to be the strangest. In fact the strangest thing I have ever been asked ever.. this was nothing to do with her breed...I think the person was simply a complete nutter..escape from the mental asylum...as the question was "does your dog always use all four feet when walking" now I am not usually slow on the uptake but that flumoxed me totaly I said after a long pause..."sorry I missed that" and they asked again....perfectly normal couple.....no space ships or anything anywhere near...they repeated it again and this time I was more "with it" and when they said "does your dog always use all four legs when out for a walk.." I said "Yes unless she's using the unicycle..."

I mean where do these people come from worse why do they find me? and thirdly.....where do they go?

These people were totaly serious.....I just smiled and carried on...although I do admit to looking for people in white coats and straight jackets who may have misplaced a client.

LOL- Sounds like you were walking your dog in London ;)

:D   hehehehe made me giggle. had a few here as well, but usually concerning my boys ridge, been asked many times if i comb it that way each morning, but once got asked did I carve it in when he was a puppy?? Never hung about to ask what the guy meant, just smiled and walked away!

I was not wearing a clown outfit at the time and this was in a park in B'ham, I had no other conversation with them they just were passing me on the path and stopped said "hello" I replied Hello then they just asked me.....no lead  up to it or anything.....I am now starting to think the space ship was cloaked... :) and for the record Sal is a Stafford not a dog normaly assiciated with circus's or similar. And she was on all four legs...

OMG I laughed out loud at that - some people!  The weirdest one I had was some total weirdos in the park when my staff was a pup and this man (bonkers and wasted) started saying over and over again 'dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy.  Your dogs gonna get dead dizzy' when missy was jumping round in circles.  I smiled, nodded and tried to move away but he kept saying it.  My inner voice was saying run away but my conscience was telling me to not be judgemental - should've listened to my inner voice ;)

My pomx does try and avoid putting all four feet on the floor when standing if its wet or cold does that count ?in fact if she could walk on 2 she would LOL

Very strange question indeed Kazz,

I think my quizzical mind would have had to ask them why? Do they have a dog which does not use 4 legs? :-D I think I would have had to question the question as it's a riddle and needed explanation, there must have been a reason for it............. you'll have to be left wondering.

I've met many a strange person on a dog walk, I'm always friendly but like you I attract the nutters and strange question sometimes and I'll never forget the woman who attached herself to me all I did was say hello, and for the next 60 mins she cloaked my every move and boy did I try to shake her, I had her in my ear telling me about her past dogs ailments then her own bowel problems (and textures ) and that she pee's in the woods and all sorts of inappropriate things to tell a complete stranger and believe me I was not looking interested.  In the end I made my excuses and said I had to call in on a friend and cut across to my local farmers house for a chat to shake her.

When my mum was ill and I walked her pack too I even had this couple who regularly would stop me and ask for one of the dogs saying it would go well with their's, everytime they saw me they would ask for the dog as though I were some walking puppy farmer, made no difference how many times I said the dogs weren't for sale they still continued to ask.  So yes, plenty of aliens around...................

When I walk with my little on in her pram and the dogs I get fed up with the amount of people who say "ooh you should tie them to the pram, let them pull it" oh yes how sensible that would be, as soon as they see a rabbit they would be gone taking baby with them !!!

lol that one made me laugh very weird question were they totally straight faced?

I was told a weird statment once while walking my Newfies, " i did not realise that some dogs have long coats"?
This man must have been 50 if he was a day, must have been living on the moon!!

Peanuts

As my boy was clearly licking his testicles in full public view (no shame) a man very seriously told me "ooh, she has quite a funny lump by her bottom"
After a very straight-faced examination, I explained that this was due to the fact he was a boy, and those funny lumps, were infact meant to be there. doh!

i had an amputee hound once and a stupid woman stopped me on the beach and asked if "he was meant to have 4 legs?"....i told her with a serious face, that hed lost one from cancer but we were expecting it to grow back. This didnt seem to faze her and she nodded and walked off!!! i often wondered if she believed me or not!

I overheard two clients in a vets waiting room discussing what their pets were in for.  One asked the other about their male black lab who replied 'he is in to have his stitches out he has been speyed' That made laugh but then the other responded with 'waste of money if you ask me, they will grow back within a few years!' that made me chuckle again...

I took Finneus to puppy classes on Wednesday and as I walked in the door heard a guy in his 30's ask the vet nurse "why's she got a possum - I thought this was a dog class?".

Now granted there are many Paps in the local area but he looks nothing like a possum!

well seeing as we're sharing....when my first litter of rottie pups were born the docking ban had just come in,so was discussing with my dad about pups being the first generation with tails(not the first but im sure you see where im coming from)
anyway he said (now this is my dadbless him)'what would you have been docking tam,i keep heraing you mention tails,but rotts like dobermans arnt born with tails!!!!!

he really thought they were born without a tail and was horrified when i had been telling him the truth that they were docked and howat two days old.
not being a doggy person at all animal and dog lover yes but in the know how nooo,he is a firm beliver in the docking ban.
i love my dad dearly but i thought he was having me on until he wanted proof pups were born with tails.so i showed him in the end.

Sorry but i have a Chihuahua and if its cold, wet or snowing (which it is at the moment).....Its 3 legs for her and love nor money will make her put the other down... So i can understand there interest ha ha ha x

i can relate to your story there Tamara! My sister who is older then me, and who wants a rottie when she moves house, was shocked when i told her about the ban on docking tails! She also thought dogs with short tails were born that way! :) so then i went through the whole story and told her about ear clipping! Eek!

> so then i went through the whole story and told her about ear clipping! Eek!

oooh dont get me started on that,i think he'd keel over and die my dad.he's done a lot of internet searching since....wants to know all the ins and outs.

When I was a child we had a Jack Russell X who would very often lift one of his back legs when he ran.  A lot of people who had terriers who we spoke to over the years said that their dogs or dogs they'd owned in the past did the same thing.  Everyone seemed to speak of it as though it were some endearing trait of small dogs - I have since learned that it was probably a luxating patella but I had no idea at the time and he never seemed to show any sign of being in discomfort when he did it. 

Maybe the couple you spoke to had seen this trait in other terriers and wondered if it was just a comical trait of certain breeds, not a serious health problem.

I   made the mistake of saying the wrong thing,I was walking dogs with my friend when coming towards us was  a labrador that had the shortest legs and the longest body,I turned to my friend and said oh that poor dog(i was thinking deformed)We spoke to his owner who was so nice when I asked if he was born that way,she replied yes,hes a cross lab bassett hound.
She thought I was the strange one.

I have laughed at this thread till tears came - Brilliant!