most definitely  people think my beardies  are old english sheepdogs so love it when people actually get it right , I think I must be a dog snob..LOL

Usually starts with oh..my mum had one of these when I was a child  an oes....or oh look a dulux dog...the fact they are all brown doesnt matter either...GGRRRRR

The best one I had for Addison, my first LM, was Afghan!  Ok, I know he had a lot of coat BUT........he did have brains unlike an Afghan!   Never seen a black patched, ticked & flecked Afghan.

I get the usual 'They have a Labrador head/Flatcoat head', 'too big to be a Springer'.   I've had 'Is it a Gordon Setter'?   When I explained Gordons are black & tan I still was asked 'but is it a Gordon Setter'?

> When I explained Gordons are black & tan I still was asked 'but is it a Gordon Setter'?

Years ago I was talking to someone who said people always thought her dog was an Irish Setter - I thought it looked like one too - until the owner told me her dog was actually a Gordon Setter but of the wrong colour. I'm sure that people could be forgiven for getting the breed wrong in this case though!!

>When I owned a Pembroke Corgi years ago, my neighbour's daughter (then aged 3-4) thought she was a a Gunea Pig the first time she saw her !

lol this made me laugh :D

My mum was walking past an "illegal gypsy encampment" with her lurcher and a little girl came up and asked her if it was a mouse   You would have thought gypsy kids would be able to recognise a lurcher !

Well I´m delighted to say that (very surprisingly, I thought) many people here in Spain seem to recognise my papillon for what he is, including the Spanish!  I´ve seen very few paps here but they seem more widely recognised than when I was in the UK.

I often get asked what George is, he's a white boxer so hardly anything rare or exotic!!  He has been mistaken for an American Bulldog, staff x, boxer x, 'oh that can't be a purebred boxer', a bulldog and a giant pug

>> When I explained Gordons are black & tan I still was asked 'but is it a Gordon Setter'?
> Years ago I was talking to someone who said people always thought her dog was an Irish Setter - I thought it looked like one too - until the owner told me her dog was actually a Gordon Setter but of the wrong colour. I'm sure that people could be forgiven for getting the breed wrong in this case though!!

Fine, if I actually owned a Setter but I own a Large Munsterlander which is black & white (Or should be!).

our latest one is somebody starting a story about their afghan when they saw mine... He obviously thought mine were afghans too!!
Fair enough the dogs were in a run few meters away and the younger one is little leggy at the moment (and totally hairless!!)but the older resembles a barrel :)!!

I have a sbt and was at a breed champ show and someone asked if she was a pitbull

> I have Tollers

You would be surprised just how many folk don't know the breed.  To be fair, most JP's wouldn't even have heard of them.

A couple of years ago I was out on a field trip with work colleagues.  We had visited the Wild Fowl & Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge.  Everyone was frantically taking photos of birds, and I was listening to a guy giving us the "tour" when I spied a dog a couple of hundred yards away by the river.

My excitement knew no bounds!  :-)  I yelled It's a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.  The vets, without exception said "It's a what?  How did you know that?"

They were just starting to train 2 dogs, and were so proud of their new arrivals.  I'm afraid that my interest in the birds just flew out the window!  :-)  :-)

Just like the vet today who said isn't that an Obama dog!  Won't mention the vets name as some people on here will know him.

> When we had our first Bernese ( a very large and beautifully marked boy) I once overheard a boy say to his dad "look at that enormous collie dad!"   miffed is an under-statement :-D
>

A lady at my childrens school, very kindly,  brought a book to the school one afternoon to "proove" to me, (she did not want my children to be mis informed ??) that my tri coloured Border Collie was in fact a bermese... At least she was friendly and interested ;-)

Jeansw how exciting... lovely dogs!

I admit I was primed beforehand.... but....

Many years ago I lived in London, and used to breed & show Siamese & Oriental cats. Bruce Fogle had a vet practice in Mayfair and one of my best catbreeder friends was a client of his. My Siamese girl was carrying a big litter (was 7!!!) in a heatwave and had decided to stop eating a week before she was due. She refused to eat wet food only dry, but all we could get then was Go Cat.

Iams had just come onto the market and compared to what we had before it was a huge difference... but trying to get it was a nightmare, Selfridges was the only place selling it but had run out, so my friend asked her vets if they could help. Well the vets had run out but one of the nurses wonderfully agreed to let me have some from her own supply, so I went to collect it in my lunchtime.

Cut a long story short I walked into his practice and saw a dog sleeping in the waiting room and went "OOOH! is that an Italian Spinone?????!

Oh my God! said the receptionist. Just wait here a minute....

....disappeared.....

and out came Bruce Fogle, seemed he was in the middle of surgery.... who said "Let me shake your hand!!! You are the first person ever to have guessed my dog's breed!"

(oops) lol

:-) :-)

There are a lot of funny looking Afghan's about if you Leo's are and someone else's LM's are too.. lol

Some breeds are just easy to recognise, if i'm not sure I ask or I ask in a guessing way. Like someone else said its often the white fluffy dogs which i'm not always sure about, especially the rare breeds :-)

Well my boy gets mistaken for all sorts of things and not just other breeds of dog!

Is it a mop?....the most common

Is it an Alpaca?

Is it an OES gone wrong?

Is it a sheep?

I had my sarcastic head on one day when people were asking what he was so I just turned to one guy and said "he`s a Jamaican spliff hound" that shut a few people up lol lol

mine are usually basetts!

> mine are usually basetts!

If yours are bassets, god knows what size your blood hound should be.

I was watching, with half an eye, that incredibly stupid programme last night about two idiots pretending to do the same as The Good Life, when in the corner of my eye I saw a Staffy on the TV. "Oh they have dogs?" I thought then looked a bit closer and realised it was Gloucester Old Spot pigs. Oops.

When I owned a Pembroke Corgi years ago, my neighbour's daughter (then aged 3-4) thought she was a a Gunea Pig the first time she saw her !

Lol, that's soooo sweet, that a 3 year old would think a puppy was a guinea pig!!!

>> I have Tollers
> You would be surprised just how many folk don't know the breed.  To be fair, most JP's wouldn't even have heard of them.
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I'm used to people not knowing what they are, but being asked on 2 separate occasions if my dog was a Kooikerhondje threw me a bit - you'd think if they'd have heard of Kooikerhondje then they'd know what a Toller is!!!

>You wonder then what people think a Goldie does look like to them then? One of the most common breeds aside from the Lab, that is a serious oh dear on their part...

Lol AND he worked at Pets at Home... I was seriously surprised he didn't know the difference between two popular breeds. She is very cream - could a fluffy cream puppy be mistaken for a lab? I think most people would know the difference...

I have the same problem with mine, "ooh look Huskies", and when I smile and say "no, Norwegian Elkhounds" they look miffed or like I haven't a clue what I own (and that's with five of them on the end of a lead) and carry on telling their friend/child about huskies, grrr.

> "he`s a Jamaican spliff hound"

:-) :-) :-)

> Have yr dogs been mistaken for another breed?

Now Buster (English Matiff) is fully grown, people ask what he is as they have absolutely no idea. But when he was a pup, people often guessed at his breed, the silliest was when I over-heard 2 men in the vets - one said to the other "that's a staffy, that is" - LOL Buster was about 20kg, obviously still a puppy, with HUGE floppy ears, feet the size of saucers and loose skin over his head/face, nothing remotely 'staffy' about him atall!

Many years ago our vet decided that our crossbreed Rough Collie - crossed with what no one knew - was an English Collie -(which was the name sometimes used for Smooth Collies in Scotland). He had the same markings as his mum but with a short coat. We explained many times to this vet that no, he was a cross breed, but the vet referred to him as an English Collie until the day he was PTS. :-)  . If only we had known the cross we could have had the first 'Designer breed' ;-)

When we used to show in the 90's we were in the import register classes so saw a lot of strange, weird and wonderful dogs - my personal favourite was the Bergamasco which did look rather like a very large rug on legs :-D and could certainly be recognised as a Jamaican Spliff Hound candidate :-D . We used to compete regularly against a Kooikerhondje too, very pretty girl she was. Sad thing is that many of these breeds are now out of imported register while the Swedish Lapphund is still in there and hardly any are being bred from here now :-(

I knew someone who was asked if his basset hound puppy was a jack russell ... !!

We used to have a beardied collie as a family dog when I was younger.
I wish I had a pound for every time Shelly was called a Dulux dog!!!!!
And as an aside, everyone thinks my dogs are puppies!!!! Beano is an AM cocker and 9 years old and Ebba is a Rottweiler and is 6, but people question me when I say they are not puppies. I resort to saying I have had Beano for 7 years and Ebba for 4 so am positive they are NOT puppies!!!! LMAO
Lea :) :)

we still get that now withe the dulux comments...

although I like to think I know a lot of  breeds but the least common I am not as familiar with ...if I dont know I ask rather than make myself look stupid as I know how infuriating it is when people get it wrong.

I am not infuriated if people get the breed of my dog wrong, anymore than I would expect horse owners, cat owners, car owners to be so if I guessed the wrong breed/make etc.

I also do not think that making a mistake is demonstrating stupidity necessarily..........................

Knowledge and intelligence are not the same!

ooh eer' consider myself told off !!

just came back to me in a flash why I cant be bothered posting on this forum.....

> I am not infuriated if people get the breed of my dog wrong, anymore than I would expect horse owners, cat owners, car owners to be so if I guessed the wrong breed/make etc.

I would quess that most of us here think the same, although I personaly used the term hate when our two are refered to as 'sausage dogs', but there is a big difference between someone asking what your dog is and stateing/refusing to be told otherwise. As in the other day, when a well spoken couple with 3 children surounded Lucas who became a little overwhelmed with the attention and I asked if they would step back abit & him alone. They would have none of it, their children were used to dogs (they had now chased him down the path and corned him under a hedge, and were well used to hounds and Beagles!. If someone shows an interest even if they do thinks they are labradors, I realy don't mind, it is when I'm told with assurance that they are labradors!

Well if people don't know they should ask, not state categorically they are x or y when they are nothing of the sort.

I know little about cars and would not dream of saying Oh look at that Ford fiesta, unless I knew it was one for sure.

Yes, I never take offence at people getting the breed wrong, but I think I might get shirty if someone insisted they were something that they weren't!

what annoys me is when we as dog owners choose to 'pick at each other' .

> if I dont know I ask rather than make myself look stupid as I know how infuriating it is when people get it wrong.

I was mortified when I asked a person if thier dog was a Labradoodle (it looked like this). Apparently is was a pure-bred XXXX (the name escapes me), but It didn't look anything like what the lady said it was (wish I could remeber what it was). She appeared very irritated, so I now never take a guesse, for fear of offending anyone!
Curiosity gets me evreytime and if I'm not 100% sure what a dog is I'll ask, but NEVER again guesse!

Mastifflover, it looks a bit like my breed Soft coated wheaten terriers but maybe not the best example of one....... however I have just seen a photo of one of our pups, now I know that underneath it is a well constructed specimen BUT how I am going to comment about the haircut the local grooming parlour has given it? I will have to think carefully. Looks like a trip to Wales for us next spring to give them another trimming lesson :)

I think if you don't know the breed then ask, you normally get into a chatty doggy converstation then, and most of us like those!!
We should all learn something new every day, no one knows it all!!

Mastifflover that looks a bit like a clipped Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier I suppose to the untrained eye so maybe it was one of them?

Have yr dogs been mistaken for another breed?

All the time...they're obviously a 'wrong' batch of English Springers or a mix, which anyone would know from their 'funny' colour!

When my daughter spotted someone with our breed...she said oh hello Aussies.
The lady with them (there were 2) looked at my daughter in shock and said, "do you mean Yorkies", and argued almost that nobody ever knew or got the breed right, so how could she possibly have got it right, a treat for the owner indeed.

Karen

'Spliff hound'

Out with young undocked Rott girl about 10 yrs ago - not many around then - and got told 'thas a rockweller innit' by a 'yoblet in training'

He went away to tell all his mates he had been talking to a German Tripe Hound, apparently he had heard of them before but not seen one

We went away falling about laughing :-D

I am always being complemented of my lovely shih tzu's !!!! ;-)

many many years ago, a police car with blue flashing lights pulled up and stopped me when i walking my 6 month old gsd puppy in the dark nights of winter they got out of the car and stood behind the doors and said some people had phoned in and said they had seen a lady walking a wolf , when i stopped laughing and explained to them it is a white gsd i have all her paperwork and they came up to her and patted her and said sorry but we have to check these things out, and off they went quite happy.

I know what mean last nite took my staffy out for her walk and a guy with an adult staffy x informed me that I had a short legged boxer lol
:o I then said it was a staffy and he said a was a liar
Nessa

people are allways asking what one of my brothers dog is. he has 2 standard dachshunds but one is twice the size he should be. (There vet thinks he has gigantizim as he is in proportion but just twice the height and weight of the breed standard.)

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.

> I am not infuriated if people get the breed of my dog wrong, anymore than I would expect horse owners, cat owners, car owners to be so if I guessed the wrong breed/make etc.
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> I also do not think that making a mistake is demonstrating stupidity necessarily..........................
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> Knowledge and intelligence are not the same!

If you don't know what breed an animal could be, why not just ask, after all we all have tongues in our heads?    However some guesses are ridiculous, an educated guess would not be laughed at but a downright stupid one will be.

I used to live next to a lady who went to a rescue kennels, she came back with what she thought and was told by the kennel was a collie, he was about 6 months old, when he got to a year it was quite clear he was a cross with a Burnese Mountain Dog?
She then went back to the kennels a few years later and brought home another 'collie' she called me round to have a look and i told her straight away it was a husky! It howls all the time!!!   

> he has 2 standard dachshunds but one is twice the size he should be.

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.

> If you don't know what breed an animal could be, why not just ask, after all we all have tongues in our heads?

I'm sure I mentioned this on another thread.... but where I used to live, people would always ask.

But there seems to be a strange regional difference where I live now, or a local custom.... People don't ask about your dog to your face, but stand in little groups discussing what they 'think' it is, within earshot.

Trouble is when I turn round, and in a friendly manner tell them.... apparently that's more socially unacceptable here than talking about my dog behind my back in the first place!?! lol

Oh, and by the way - NOW I see why there is such a big market for bags, hats, T-shirts, scarves, key-rings etc with different breeds on! hahaha!

> But there seems to be a strange regional difference where I live now, or a local custom.... People don't ask about your dog to your face, but stand in little groups discussing what they 'think' it is, within earshot.
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> Trouble is when I turn round, and in a friendly manner tell them.... apparently that's more socially unacceptable here than talking about my dog behind my back in the first place!?! lol
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Ditto, just the same here. It's OK to laugh at you & the dog but not OK to tell them in a friendly manner.