What "kind advice" and absurd things have complete strangers come up to you and said about your dog?

Last night a nice looking old lady and man walked past me and floyd and the lady said he was lovely and stopped to say hello, both of them were smiling and being very nice. Then the man said very cheerily, "just you wait a couple of years and you'll have" ... [here in my head I inserted "a lovely dog"] but he says "the most agressive animal you have ever known" !!!  Still smiling as though he was telling me something lovely. I was quite shocked, mainly because as I say, I had been expecting him to say something nice :rolleyes:

Another man told me when Floyd was really little "don't ever give that dog a ball ... I had a BC and the postman had to do our house last on his round cause the dog wouldn't let him leave till he had played with him, so never give a BC a ball" :rolleyes:
I'll admit that Floyd loves his ball, but surely this is a good thing, I can use it for training and for fun. And if he started harassing the postie about it, then it would be 1. my fault for not keeping the dog away from the postie, and 2. the posties fault for changing his round to suit the dog .... Not the dogs fault for loving his ball

I can't think of any!  But what are people like :-D

Hopefully Floyd just looks at them as though they are insane. You can but laugh!

Oh dear god, I've had numerous comments.....

Whilst our puppy is still young, I'm not going to the gym in the evening or going out to pubs/places where I can't take her (She's on her own in the afternoons). I was told that I didn't have a life and that I need to make the puppy fit round my life not not the other way round. I advised that once she's old enough and house trained, we will occasionally go to the pub for a few but in the mean time, whilst she's a puppy, she 'll get our attention as and when she needs it. i.e. all the time!! :rolleyes:

Well, I really think that is rather selfish of your puppy to expect your attention! Perhaps you could ask it to walk itself as you need to go to the pub ... People aye!

I always get " is your dog going to grow into them feet?  he is going to be massive!" Well how silly, of course he will grow into his feet  he wasn't going to stay a small pup forever (dobe) seems a strange thing to say really lol

Ha ha, people used to say the same thing about my Dobe :)
Katie

Lol, my boy too - always got "he'll be a HUGE dog, won't he?!?" I always said yes - and bless him, he's bottom of the standard for a dobe!!  And he's still got big feet :D

Regarding feet, I always get Has your dog got any feet?:rolleyes:. Well yes obviously, that is how she walks. She is a peke by the way.

Good for you Fluff - you've definitely got your priorities right :)

The most hurtful thing said to me (by a non-dog loving relative) when my dog died suddenly was 'Never mind - at least you'll have more freedom now to do other things'
Sometimes it's hard to bite your tongue.......I didn't want freedom I just wanted my dog back.

well no laughing now,I was walking one of my big apricot Mastiffs,it had been really raining and there were large areas of the park under water,there were also some boys palying football,and one shouted "LOOK OUT,THERES A WATER BUFFALO"I am totally praying they meant the dog and not me,ahem,
or we get "oh you could put a saddle on that and ride it"arghhhhhh never ever heard that one before,
Wendy

>>well no laughing now,I was walking one of my big apricot Mastiffs,it had been really raining and there were large areas of the park under water,there were also some boys palying football,and one shouted "LOOK OUT,THERES A WATER BUFFALO"I am totally praying they meant the dog and not me,ahem,>>

Hehehehe. :D

Yes, we get the saddle comments ALL the time aswell. :rolleyes: And everyone thinks they must be the first person to say it too. :-)

I get where's the sleigh with mine constantly, nd they are so pleased with their clever comment (they aren't even sled dogs).  I ahve on occasion goen pedantic and said no horses or Reindeer pull sleighs.

>"oh you could put a saddle on that and ride it" arghhhhhh never ever heard that one before,

Yep...if I had a quid for every time I heard that line... :rolleyes: And each and every person who says it chuckles like it's the funniest thing they've ever said in their lives :rolleyes:

My favourite ridiculous comment about was from a man with 2 Springer Spaniels who rounded the corner on a forest path to be confronted with my two. His comment was....'Bl**dy hell! Bears wearing dog suits!' I had to give him credit for his originality at least :)

MY MIL thinks we are mad having even one dog as "they are such a tie, you can't go out anywhere or go on holidays, they are such an inconvenience"

Well, not in my opinion :)  because I have the dogs I meet loads of lovely people when walking (and some not so lovely, but that's life ;) )  and because we show the dogs we go to places we wouldn't have thought of going, meet fantastic people we would never have met, and have made friends with people who we wouldn't have met otherwise :)  Our lives have actually opened up and I now have some sort of social life I didn't have before.  I've even had a weekend away this year which was wonderful and wouldn't have happened before the dogs :D
Thanks to the pet passport scheme I can even take my dogs abroad :D

Thanks to the Bedlingtons I now have a skill which would support me and the children if anything should happen to OH :)

A tie and an inconvenience ?  - I think not!!  :D :D :D

Ive had a few people ring and ask how old Bull Terriers are when their skulls split in half :rolleyes:
Apparently Staffies do the same lol.... im told its down to them having too much bone

I get the same comment from adults and children around here " ah here comes the puppy",he's nearly 2 a small breed and they know how long I have had him so must know he can't be a puppy.

These are folk who in the past 18 months I have seen with 3 different pups,X breed[got rid of that????] ,West Highland White and next door a Cavalier King Charles none of which have I seen since last autumn when the kids had them playing in the street with them as very young pups. Lots of 9 day wonders round here.

Once when two wee nippy mongrels chased my Rough Collie for what seemed like miles(though wasn't) the man  "in charge of them" while offering no help at all said "oh don't worry I think they think its a sheep"!!!

Umm, looks like we are picking on old guys today :d  One said to me when one of my boys cocked his leg up on a tree "that it's no wonder the world is like it is today when people allow dogs to wee in public"   Yeah right, sure that affects people severely

I remember when Nips was about 11 weeks old and some old chap said "I like Jack Russells but be careful. Ours turned vicious on us when she was 18 months old and they've got a habit of doing that".

Yeh had that one

I use to take my two jack russells to the nursery when I collected my daughter. A mother dragged her daughter away from them screaming at her never ever touch those dogs they will bite you.

I stood gobsmacked. Like i would have two dogs that would bite and  then take them to the nursery. All the little ones loved them but i did make a point in telling them they had to ask first before touching them.

Got better when I got my GSD one of my daughters friends was banned from coming to my house. When I asked the mother why thinking I had done something wrong she said it was my pup she didnt trust it. For no reason than its breed. It was a pup at the time to. This mum I had know since our daughters were 1 yr old and she knew I would never put any child at risk. I was even childminding at the time to. 4 years later she still hasnt been in my house.

There was a guy who got a rotty pup the same time as I got my GSD, we use to meet on walks and i would comment how many people would grab hold of there kids hand when they saw us coming. He said they crossed the road when they saw the rottie. Another so called friend of mine was going to contact the police to see if there was anything that could be done about the guy walking this rottie on the field next to the school. Well according to her it was a dangerous dog and putting the kids at risk.

Wendy

i had someone call the police on my rottie saying that she was out of control because she was barking in my garden the reason she was barking is because the guy calling the police was standing on the otherside of the fence, all my garden is fenced in with 7 food hedges around as well like she could get out police came round my bitch rolled on her back and demanded a belly rub from them lol

Similar one here - used to walk my GSD, when he was around 12 - 16 weeks, past the local junior school at chucking out time for socialising.  He just thought it was great being mobbed by all the kids and mums saying 'ahhh'.  One time some lady positively yanked her daughter away with the comment 'come away from that' in the same tone you'd reserve for a child caught plugging a finger into a wall socket!!!  I can sort of understand when he's full grown, but he was a little fluff ball!  Definitely the parents fear being plugged into the children.

I've also been asked if he was half husky

I get a bit irritated when trying to get him sit nicely before saying hello that nine out of ten people come back with 'he's ok, I don't mind', and positively encourage him to jump up or leap.  They mightn't mind - I do!  :rolleyes:

I had one even better as one of my girls curtseyed elegantly to wee (in the gutter mind) with another part of her anatomy very obvious (we talking bum hole here) with her tail curled up on top, I was frostily asked " Ihope yoru going to pick that up".  

I smiled and said I don't have a bottle on me or anything to suck it up with.

>>I smiled and said I don't have a bottle on me or anything to suck it up with.>>

Hehehe :D :D

One said to me when one of my boys cocked his leg up on a tree "that it's no wonder the world is like it is today when people allow dogs to wee in public" confused

LOL that's one of the best ones I've EVER heard!!!

"Ive had a few people ring and ask how old Bull Terriers are when their skulls split in half"

ROFL. ouchhhh!!! That sounds very painful for the poor dog

I got that from mine, having lost two close together (leaving 3), I have my Dad saying couldn't you cut down to just one or at most two?

Kids nearly as bad, your not goign to keep another puppy, wel duh yes, always was the plan to have one by next spring.

Hi

As well as the dogs I have rabbits I show and breed.

My mum came to visit went to look at the rabbits

Came out the shed and announced you really ought to get a hobby to get  away from all these animals.

My love of animals obviously didnt come from my mum lol

Wendy

I think I amy have been mixed up at Birth as I ahve been nuts about animals since I was tiny.  I was so sad that I used to cut out pictures of any animals from TV magazines or any newpapers in our house.

None of my family are into animals at all, they can only see the negatives, they poo, pee, leave hair, smell etc etc.

Well I was once in the town centre with my Papillon as a tiny pup, and there was no end of people stopping to look at him. (I was waiting outside a shop for hubby.) All elderly. One man spent a good 10 minutes telling me everything about worming and feeding and house training etc etc and I just didn't have the heart to tell him that um, I have several dogs and have had dogs for 25 years.

One memorable incident was the man who called my Cavaliers "King Edwards".

Very common comment about Malinois: "Oh I have a dog just like that at home, Alsatian cross Collie!"

And an oldie but goodie from many, many years ago, when I still lived in Sweden and my  brother was still alive. He'd taken my Golden out for a walk -I like my Goldens rich in colour and so he was. My brother came back in and told me "I met  a bloke out walking one of those white GHOSTS <meaning cream Golden> and he stared at Jesper and said what a strange colour my dog had!"

I have a very fair long coat shepherd, and I always get 'is that a wolf?' I mean, as if people expect a person to be walking a wolf through town. :rolleyes: It is amazing how serious everyone is when they ask to.

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When I was walking my leashed Lab puppy a neighbour asked me if she was going to run loose and jump up on little kids.  This after ten years of me walking by his house with my perfectly behaved ESS, off-leash and always at heel, who never ran loose or jumped on anyone.  I was so shocked I couldn't think of a thing to say back to him.  It still bugs me.

On the other hand, one day two other neighbours phoned me and a third came right over to my house because a look-alike Lab, right down to the pink collar, WAS running loose.  All these women (women, is that the key?) said they knew how we looked after our dog, and loved her and they all figured she had just gotten out somehow, as they can do once in a while.  Those three women gave me such a nice warm glow and I will never forget that day either.

I wish I had a pound for every time someone said with eyebrows raised 'oo she's going to be a big dog. You can tell my her feet"

I often feel like replying "Oh really - golden retrievers are a large breed are they? That hadn't occured to me during the 10 years I waited to have a dog and spending months and months researching which breed to have":rolleyes:

I wish I had a penny for every time someone says 'You've got yours hands full'. With four dogs and two leads in each hand apiece, yes my hands are full! DUH!

Or "Who's walking who hahaha" when my four are walking quietly behind me. :rolleyes:

OR: "Do you like dogs by any chance"? !!!!

absolutely, tend to walk 6 or 7 and you'll get 'oh, are they ALL yours?'

People didn't used to say that a few years ago, its the commercial dog walkers fault for taking outgreat packs they have no control over and know nothing of the dogs characters. People presume that when you have a swarm, you must be doing it commercially ;-)

Di

I used to walk my little mongrel Bonnie with Aysha my first GSD unfortunately Bonnie had to be put to sleep because of cancer when she was seven ,at the time Aysha would have been about two and her and Bonnie wre big mates.
I couldn,t believe it when only two days after losing Bonnie someone in our village said to me "I thought it would only be a matter of time before the big dog killed the little one"
I absolutely tore into the person and then came home and broke my heart.

That's so unkind! Even if it was true, it's incredibly callous. :(

He was a nasty peice of work and I think he was one of those people who just get pleasure out of upsetting people anyone who knew Aysha would know there was not a bad bone in her body thanks JG

.... my previous BC dog loved to blay ball with everyone... once he dropped a ball in a pram for a passing  baby and the mum never noticed and couldn'tunderstand why he wouldn't stop following them. It was a farm BC who folowed us round on the moors playing ball who made us intersted in getting a dog... I think it's great they are so friendly. Before we could really manage to have a dog cos the kids were too young we loved meeting the friendly ball playing border collies in our local park.

Glad it's not just me who attracts the mean comments from strangers! lol! Some people! I don't know how they get through life being so rude! But even so being so grumpy must knock year off their lives and certainly vastly reduce the quaility of their life. Just a shame they have to share ther mean spirit with inocent passers by.

Talking of funny things people say...  my last dog had his back dew claws removed as an adult as they were massive and the vet said they would get caught. Anyway..wrongly or rightlly they were removed and while he healed he had dressings and boots on to keep them clean.  One day we were out walking when I heard a small child shout "mummy mummy that dogs has shoes and sucks on!"..and the mun replied "Don't be silly dog's don't wear shoes and socks!" and then caught sight of my dog! lol.

Well... my dad is always making nasty comments about my dogs and especially about my young dog who died. It is a shame he gets pleasure from being nasty but that's just how he is. When he's nice he's nice and when he's not he's not... just means his family don't come to see him as much as we all would if he was a little sweeter.  Natural justice rewards these type of people with a fair dish of lonlelyness.

my dog wears boots in the summer as it greatly reduces her allergies at that time of year (allergic to grass :( ) and i am always getting "mummy - that dogs got shoes on"
or "excuse me, your dogs got shoes on" - as if i didn't know :)

i love some of the comments people make - i think i might start a book :) - who thinks it would sell? :)

I had some woman yelling at me a few weeks ago weeks asking if I trained my dog to attack children because she barked in their general direction - I should have made some glib comment about 'only the ones with blond hair' or something but she got very stroppy telling me I had a dangerous dog that shouldn't be allowed out and I got myself in a bit of a pickle rather than just rising above it as I should have done.

Also I don't use her headcollar much any more but I always got people asking me why she was wearing a muzzle :rolleyes:  I've lost count of the amount of times I've had the 'look at the size of those feet - she's gonna be a big un' she's ended up pretty weeny for a Dobe, 24ins tall and 27 kilos at just over a year.  :-)

Karen

Blimey karen, I wish my boy was on the smaller side lol. He is 10 months old and is 28" at shoulder and at present is weighing in at 40 kg (was weighed at vets yesterday as he has been poorly!) so he still has some filling out to do, thankfully his height should stop now. I think there are a couple of big dogs in his lines so thats probably why, is your dobe from british, american or continental lines? just interested. 

She does look weeny compared to most other Dobes we meet bless her but she's all in proportion and very beautiful (not at all bias) :-)  She's from British and Continental lines, and her personality is definitely a mix of the 2 she's quite confident with people and pretty much loves everyone whether she's met them before ornot,but she takes so much entertaining and is always on the go - only sleeps for a couple of hours a day.  How about your boy?

Karen

I've only been a dog owner for 2 weeks and already I've had silly comments. 

Whilst waiting at the vets for Earl to have his jabs, another lady looked Earl all over and said, "I'll bet he has some Ridgeback in him".  So much for getting a pedigree pup :-)

I get the, "Oooh, look at his big feet....blah, blah, blah" all the time!

Anna, a book would deffo sell ... I'd buy it, some of these posts have made me laugh so much

I've had most of them! 
OOh you've got your hands full (5 dogs out together),  Still got the odd one out then (sbt amongst the sheps.), They're x-collies ( 2 belgians), Bet they'd not be so well behaved if a cat came along (dogs live with 3 cats, parrot and 2 ferrets).  :rolleyes:
But, I do get some nice comments too!

Sarah.

Years ago when i had my boy a white EBT,
we used to walk my daughter to infants every day,
there was a little girl at the nursery class, whenever
she saw us she,  used to shout  mam look,
there's that special needs dog !
the mother was horrified and applogised every time :-)

I have also had look that lady has got a  pig on a lead
Charming!

Donna