I would suspect many of you have funny stories to tell about enquries and requests you have had for your puppies.......care to post? This is just for fun.

To start off, a friend was advertising her puppies, a rather energetic gundog breed. She had a call from a 'little old lady' wanting to know if they were big. My friend very gently described the dog to her, and she laughed and said it was more than she could cope with. She then went on to tell her about her all about her little poodle, which had sadly passed away at a rather grand old age, and although she wanted another she didnt know where to look, did my friend know of any litters, as she was in the dog breeding game. My friend explained that her knowledge didn't extend to other breeds, but she would give her the number of the kennel club, and they would, in turn, be able to give her the numbers of the breed clubs for poodles, and they would help her locate a puppy. The lady said she wasn't very good on the phone, and as my friend was so nice, could she help her find a breeder. So, my friend, while this lady waited, pulled out some dog newspapers and magazines, and managed to find a couple of ads that were from longstanding show kennels to pass onto her, together with the kc number. She must have been on the phone for over an hour, and my friend was never really sure if the caller was simply lonely, or really wanted a new dog.

I had one man whose first question was "how long do they live for?" He also asked if he could train the puppy not to eat the cat food.  We're talking labradors here
I have trained mine not to pinch the cat food but not when they were very young.
Needless to say he didn't get one of my puppies.
Lorna

My friend breeds shar-pei and you get some very strange people phoning/visiting! I could tell you some weird and wonderful tales but I'd be afraid of getting sued if the people recognised themselves. :D But many people visit and expect the pei to be either a lot bigger or a lot smaller than they are. Then you get the ones who expect them to be like a stuffed toy instead of a full on dog and get upset when the puppies mob them and hang by their teeth off their designer clothes or the adults bark at/climb on/bounce off them.

My favourite was a phone call from a very nice black guy from London a few years ago. He wanted to take on a rescue shar-pei. He wanted a youngster preferably, but it had to be blue in colour (the blues were almost non existant back then). I talked to him a little more and asked a few questions. Turned out it wasn't a shar-pei he was after at all, but a Neapolitan Mastiff! You may think this is an impossible mistake to make, but I used to have a shar-pei who was a real wrinkly little chunk and very puppy-like all her life. She regularly got mistaken for a Neo pup! I suppose a quite wrinkly fully grown shar-pei does like a little like a 12 week old Neo if you're not that dog savvy.