Lots of people mistake Mini Schnauzers for Bedlington Terriers. :-D

My parents use to own an English Springer Spaniel Dog who was about 22 inches to the shoulder. They took him to an exemption show and the judge asked them to put there cocker on the table.  Can you imagine trying to get a dog that size on the table.  Of course they put the judge right but he didn't appreciate it.

I had a brindle Bullmastiff and was mistaken for a big Staffie or a fat Boxer on plenty occasions...once by a man walking a staffie! Think it was because brindle Bullmastiffs are not as common as the red ,it hid her black mask. I chuckle at some folks!!

Lots of children think Khan is a Lion.He even gets called a Tiger.
People use to think My black boy was a bear.
Chow

I have three viscious Rotties, lets walk across the road dragging the children ! :rolleyes: !

Yep - I'm ALWAYS being told that my Groenendaels are collie crosses ( or black German shepherds) but the best one was someone calling my big mature male a Bichon Frise - I teased him all the way home !

Yvonne

Munsters are usually Dalmatian x English Springer. Or just huge spaniels ;) Or collie x's

When alfie the shih tzu was a teeny tiny 7 week old puppy, the kids across the road thought he was a guinea pig. Now he just looks like a dishmop...

When you have a Xbreed you can spend ages with your pals guessing whats in the mix :D In my worse moments, I invent new breeds like the Northern Sound Pointer, a very rare import from Eastern Europe lol or the Uzbejki Hound, or on a really BAD day, I say hes a Handbag and Matching Gloves :D

But Lorelei - why don't you tell them that he is a pedigree tripe hound :D

Margot

Suki,a 1 year old Akita-inu,get's mistaken all the time for a huskie,a wolf,and a Snow dog....whatever they are!!

hehe oh yes.I have lost track of the times my poor Newfie(totally black mind u) has been called a black St Bernard!!!!!!!!!!I'm gonna get a t.shirt made up for me to wear.
It will say the following.............
Yes she is a Newfie
No she is not a flipping St Bernard
Yes she is big (60K) but beautiful
No I don't mind when she drools(I dream of ways to use the drool)
Yes she lives indoors
No it doesn't cost a lot to feed her nor does she eat her body weight in food (although she would if she could) lol
At the St Patrick's CH Show in Dublin in March and was finished showing so dog in car resting and myself and a friend were spending cash and we happened upon a Harliquin (SP?) Great Dane and the woman in front of us turned to her kids and said "Oh look kids,it's a Dalmation,isin't he lovely?"
Well we took one look at the GD owners face and fled laughing cos I swear she was gonna burst.I still crack up thinking about it

Brenda

LOL Brenda, love the T-shirt idea.

Mine would read:

Saluki
Egypt
No he is not too thin
Yes I do feed him
No I do not limit his food intake
Yes he is very fast
No I do not have him trimmed
No he is not an Afghan or a Borzoi

cant believe how daft people r

my dog mollie the pom cross terrier has been mistaken for a full pedigree pomeranion . the other day i was in the park and two ladies came up to me and said oh isnt she a lovely pomeranion ....

weirdly enough i've had a few people aking me if my little drakeshead lab is crossed with a staffy??I can't see any resemblance myself but she is small!!

Candie - that is soo weird - Gypsy our (middle) lab - is a wee one, and she has some of the drakeshead lines running through her - and she can look like a staffy at times - especially when she decides that she will tell one of the Aussies off & wrinkles up er nose!

Margot

Maremmas - white golden retrievers, newfoundlands, very occasionally pyreneans (which at least is warm!)

Tri Smooth Collie - dobermann cross (similar colour I guess), greyhound cross GSD (huh?!), dobermannXgreyhound!

At the Manchester Show at G-mex I was walking up the stairs with my Elkhound bitch and a lady was walking her terrier type up the stairs along side me, she turned to me and said, "this one of the things those pedigrees can't do, walk up steps, they have to use the lift, bet your glad you've go a mongrel". And then when we go to the top I turned to go to ward the entrance to the show and she said " Oh! I would not go that way if I was you, all them pedigrees are up there and they are full of diseases you know"

Then there was the occasion I was reported to the dog warden for owning Wolf/GSD crosses, by one of my customers, I was luck that our warden knew one dog from another and thought the whole thing funny.

Spice (border collie,with definate black/white typical border collie markings!) was referred to as a lovely spaniel the other day! Hubby always wanted a spaniel so at least it made him smile :D

why does every body think there has to be some collie un everything?

I don't know why maybe it's easy to remember?

Yes they are both very handsome boys - like 2 peas in a pod!

I took my affie girl out when she was 14 weeks, and i was asked "is that a miniature afghan?"    ....er no...just a puppy afghan :O)

When Buffy was a baby, she was a Boxer with a big head (?) and also a great dane (?) :)

She's a brindle Bullmastiff :D

When I tell people they just say 'OH' and quickly step back :(

Kelly

I get asked almost every day what breed Millie is - a little jet black terrier, with a long nose, a beard and skirts, seen on almost every piece of Scottish memorabilia, tea towels, clothing....

But today I had the opposite of Blue, a woman who thought she might be a Westie, and asked me to explain the difference!

I also get irritated with the utter assurance of the know-it-alls who tell their kids/girlfriends/whoever that my saluki is a Borzoi.  Not even similar! 
I've also been asked why I shaved my Afghan several times...

Recently I've had three comments that just amazed me as they came from sight-hound owners - a guy with three Afghans told his dogs to "go play with the Borzoi", the owner of an Afghan that Dill was playing with said "It's true that Afghans will only play with other Afghans isn't it", and the worst in my book is I met an extremely rare Sloughi the other day and even that dog's owner thought Dill was an Afghan!

How can the owner of a sloughi not know a saluki???? How? Do they just pick breeds at random???  And how could the sloughi breeder sell to such an idiot???

Ah, we will never know...

Did you call the Sloughi a greyhound or to realy get up the nose try saying it is a large Whippet ;)

my flatcoats for black setters (gorden setters just black setter}

spanish water a ladapoodle or the one diane wrote,

my gorden setter when he was young and lab/rottie cross,

terri

Lol yeah Jackie,

"Oh what a shame your whippet got so big!"

I'll try that next time...

When I had a Large Munsterlander many years ago, she was pulled out for a placing at an exemption show by the judge as an English Setter :rolleyes:

Don't have that problem now with a Dalmatian.

Sandra

I think we defo all need t shirts stating what our dogs are!

Although how some of these dogs can be mistaken is unbelievable!

Poolstead lab = collie! yeah right ok....

Thanks for all your replies guys.  Had a giggle!

M y dane  has been mistaken   countless times for being a black lab----    how bit of a size difference.

and my whippet x terrier  has been mistaken for a minuture  alsation!!!   is there such a thing???

mmmmm

Whilst walking an OES i was asked 'what happened to his tail' by a beardie owner....... who then went on to tell me that 'its a shame when they have an accidnet and their tails have to be docked, a beardie needs its tail......and THEN told me she had had beardies for over 20 years....... erm, ok!

I think she was on another planet though, i did say several times 'his name is Dennis and he is an OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG.' still, there is nowt as queer as folk!

I do think though, although some of the questions we get ARE stupid (man looks at Abby and says 'is she fast?' erm, saluki x grey, yes id guess so!), some of them ID probably ask!

Ive never met a Mal in real life, ive only seen pictures, so, if you were to show me a largeish sibe or  a smallish/young mal, i possibly would get it wrong, specially if i didnt see them side by side (if i did i bet id get it right).....

Again, ive never seen a Munsterlander in real life, so from the pics ive seen, a setter or springer spaniel is a pretty close guess considering most people have never even heard of it!
Give people a bit of a break, educate them a bit, no one is born knowing everything are they!

But the people who say STUPID things like 'thats a collie that is' and poitn at a german shepherd, or insist on telling you that a GSD and an Alsation are two different breeds, erm, just stand on their necks until they stop breathing...... its the only thing for them.  (same goes for the people who tell me feeding raw will make my dogs eat kids and livestock at every opportunity because 'it will make them turn'   erm yes, tey can turn, left, right, right around.........grrrrrr)

Em

Having Cavaliers I hate it when people call them King Charles & insist that they have seen lots of King Charles very unlikely & they look & behave totally differently too

How can you mistake a dog with a muzzle to one without one ???????

thefact that anyone could think that labmads "henry" couldbe anything other than a lab !!lol! hes the most lab looking lab ever-& very handsome too!

my tara has spotty legs so people think shes a spaniel???????? id like to PRETEND that her spots were from TODDY (OB CH Dalemien Red Rascal-fantastic dog that threw alot of spots/freckles) but alas no!-her freckles are from some farm collie!

same here with the speckly collie - my girl does descend from red robbie of dalemain - so maybe they started with him?!  i always get told what a different looking springer i have!!
shes a prick eared bc!!!
my goldie is the most common one too, although all goldie she is always referred to as my little labrador!

chel

come to think of it michelle henry and flynn do look alike! lol!

both very handsome emma!

My Goldie is also always a lab and my lab is a ridgeback???

robbie was toddys dad! i want your girls spots then!!!classy spots!!!

More likely they go back to Int.Sup.Ch.Bosworth Coon: ISDS 34186 who was very mottled & is behind a lot of sucessfull obedience lines & who was a very mottled dog

Many years ago a bloke I knew bought a basset hound puppy. When the pup was about 4 months old he was asked if it was a Jack Russell ...

I had a top judge at a Champ. Show tell me to bring my Lagotto out, he then went on to tell me that he knew the person who first imported them and also that my dogs eyes were totally incorrect for the breed, although he still placed me!!  I had to tell him that myself and 3 friends were the first ones to import the breed and that also he wasn't a Lagotto and that the eyes weren't incorrect.

I wdn't. mind but Lagotto's can't even be shown in this country and also the colour of the dog that I was showing isn't even recognised in the Lagotto.

I've have whippets and people are always saying ahh look at those greyhounds. But the best case of mistaken identity was when a little kid turned to his Mum and said "Look Mummy! kangaroos!" :D

When people ask me if I have dogs and what breed are they I very often get the response "yuck! oooh I hate those horrible skinny things!" But we get complimented everywhere we go, people come up to us and say how beautiful they are and ask all about them, they really are attention pullers. And those same people who said "yuck" soon change their tune if they actually see them in the flesh, it's all ooh and ahhhs then. :D

The best one I ever experienced was at an Exemption Show years ago.

My Border Terrier pup went Best Puppy in Show and I was of course delighted until I had a chat with the judge afterwards, and he said I have always liked Cairn Terriers!!!!

Can you imagine how deflated I felt :-D :-D

Flatcoats have often been mistaken for other breeds. Mine have been mistaken for black golden retrievers, black setters, collie crosses, lab crosses, and now I have a different angle on this......
People come up and say "Oh a flatcoat" they then proceed to tell me how much they know (not) about the breed. facts include it was developed from crossing golden retrievers with labs, to collies with labs and or goldens. I get a their version of a potted history of the breed because they know someone who owns one! :-)

Yep!! My Golden Retrievers = Labradors - especially if we have a pup we constantly are told 'how lovely, just like the Andrex Puppy'.  HHHhhhmmmmmmmmm

Sweep :)

A while ago when my mum had a Pekingese puppy, about 9 weeks old, she had workmen at the house who made a fuss of the pup and one said to the other Aaaw isnt it lovely what is it ??? and the other replied........... I think its one of those PERSIAN CATS!!!!!!  :) True Honestly ! He  was very red faced when she told him it was a dog not a cat!! :)

Not sure what breed/animal she meant, but an annual visit from an Aunt (of sound mind honestly!) in all seriousness told me my basset is apparently known as "one of those 'killer' sorts".  Heaven help us exasperated dog owners :rolleyes:

BTW, I'm the black sheep of my entire family <<<<<<looks up to the heavens and thanks god>>>>>>>   ;)

I took my affie delilah out aged 13 weeks to the park...some old codger came up and started  ranting about the fact that I had "had all her coat clipped off" !!!!!!!!
I explained rather curtly that at 13 weeks she hadnt grown it yet :)  he must have thought they were born with a 12 inch coat.....just imagine! a newborn pup would look like "IT" out of the Adams family LOL!