Someone on another forum is asking for the name of a dog she saw in the vets.

She thought it was a Bull Mastiff, but it was was white, with a brown patch over one ear. She thinks the vet might have said it was a Scottish something? It was a bitch.

A white Boxer? They often have brown patches over one eye or ear.

American Bulldog?? Can't think of Scottish anything that looks like that :) Mind you I was speaking to someone with a Lab pup who was told by the vet it was a platinum Lab I said I rather thought it was just a very pale yellow

When will people stop thinking Vets are experts in all things animal.

they have been taught to diagnose and treat ailments in animals, end of.  they are no more expert in nutrition behaviour, breeding etc than anyone else unless they of course have an additional interest and training in these areas.

Thanks.

The person thinks it was an American Bulldog, it looked like the picture of one, apparently and was the right size.

I know, i know.......A scottish boxer lol

American Bulldog is what I would go for.  Vets don't know most of the breeds so doubt that they would be able to advise on the breeding of a dog that came into their surgery.

It could be either an American Bulldog or a white boxer. 
I often get asked if my boxer is an American Bulldog even though he looks nothing like one, and has a docked tail!!  Maybe it's because people are more used to seeing the red or brindle ones around they presume he is something else.  I have even been asked if I am sure he is a boxer and yes he definitely is
It could have been a cross breed as I saw a dog down the woods last week that had a head similar to an American Bulldog and was stocky like one but nowhere near the same height.  I asked the owners what type of dog it was (very sweet and it drew your eye to it) and they said it was a cross breed.

Anyone out there seen an old fashioned type bulldog?  I had one coming to my class a while back. She looked nothing like the 'normal' bulldog.

sounds like an AB, defo not a bully, they don't come in white, only red, fawn and brindle. both ears should be dark and there should be a black mask. only white permissable is a small amount on the chest, large patches or areas of white are a major fault and i've never seen a bully with more than a white flash on its chest (from the bulldog side)

When will people stop thinking Vets are experts in all things animal

Yes, you are sooooo.... right, most don't know one breed from another, they usually just write down what the owner says their dog is. :-) I've witnessed that myself.

Vets know the medical side of things, but over the years I've learnt when it comes to breeding, behaviour, training most know no more than the general public.

My white boxer had a brown patch over her eye and lots of people thought she was a mastiff of some sort - she was big and beautiful.

Yeah, should see the letter that I requested from my vets to send to the KC for breeding from my bitch who may be 8 years old and a week if she has a litter this next time.

Her names Lana, they typed Learner!! Called her a Spanish Water Spaniel and other mistakes.  I gave up on the third request of getting them to correct it, just hope that the KC realise that the letter is for the dog specified.  I didn't even start asking them to put her KC name on it!!

My old vets had all my girls on the computer as labradors.................they are golden retrievers!!!!!!!! Needless to say i dont go there anymore!!!LOL!
mel.

when i got tiger i took him into the vets for general check up and things and just because my other dog was a GSD they automaticaly thought that he was a GSD....how wrong could they be hes a chihuahua!!! you dont see many 10 week old chi puppies that are the same size as GSD's! lol! found a very good vets the next day! :-)

My girls are registered as black (blue roan) and golden (orange roan) the only one they got right was my black & white!

When will people stop thinking Vets are experts in all things animal

Totally agree, when we took our Tibetan Mastiff to the vets for her jabs, the vet asked me what my GSD was crossed with , when i told him that it is a TM he said there is no such thing, so i explained about them and how the are more in the country now and they are being shown and how they only have one season a year etc , the answer i got was POPPYCOCK and that i have been scammed!!.

When i took her for her second jab i saw the same vet, who appologised as he had looked them up on the internet , he was so embarrsed he did not charge me for the jab.

Peanuts

The vet called our old rough collie x 'who knows what' an English Collie, by which we assumed he meant a smooth collie, but he was basically a mongrel. :-D :-D Goodness knows what he would have made of our Swedish Lapphund - a black samoyed maybe :-D :-D

Snap I had exactly the same problem with my first TM and he was black which made it even more difficult to convince the vet.
Are you at Working and Pastoral tomorrow?
Jeff.

I remember when I had my first vallhund I put her on the table and the young vet asked "why have you had a german shepherd cross terrier thing docked?"

I was quite patient i explained what she was and that she was naturally tail-less, but apparently the breed don't exist and no dog is born without a tail.

I am not so patient about it anymore when young vets try to tell me I have a cross breed, or a very badly bred corgi :)

> My old vets had all my girls on the computer as labradors.................they are golden retrievers!!!!!!!! Needless to say i dont go there anymore!!!LOL!
> mel.

Yeah my vet always puts down my fawns as 'cream with black mask'....
So annoying, they are just fawn for gods sake!! Even when I pointed it out they said they needed to do that for 'identification purposes'.
I dont know, vets eh? *rolls eyes*

I have a brown Dobe, that according to our vet is black!

Also when he was a pup alot of people would ask what he was and when I told them, i'd get 'are you sure?' or 'when does he turn black?'

People ask me whether my lab/collie/gsd x breed is a rottweiller all the time. He has a typical collie/lab x head, and weighs only 20kg. Just because he is black with some brown markings on his legs, I assume.

It happens the other way round too. ;-) We had a client bring in his new 'Jack Russell' puppy, and he got quite annoyed when we registered this black, long-legged, wiry-coated pup as a Patterdale!

Our vets system doesn't have red and white setters listed so they are under irish setters.  We don't get annoyed about it, we just tell them to update their system!!!

my vet told me my beautiful rough collie puppy was going to be a stunner ...once her ears pricked up!

Slight tangent I know but......... I once helped look for a missing silver grey, full coated, Lhasa Apso and called my local Police station just in case. " No sorry but we do have a collie-cross"   So I went to see just in case and......... you've guessed it!!!

I visited my auntie today as she has just got a westie bitch puppy, and she was telling me that when she went to the vets for her check up the vet told her that her bitch had testicles in front of her female genitals. horrified, my aunt went to another vets for a second opinion, and two different vets at the practice looked at her pup and both said it was rubbish, what the other vet thought were testicles, were actually her mammory glands!! words fail me

becky x

LMAO well i have never encountered this but it has provided me with a lot of laughs although im sure for many of you it wasnt funny at the time

Ah once someone mistook, my poodle then in full show coat for a 'doodle'. I just laughed and told them he was a standard poodle, a real breed, and the best breed too (in my eyes :-) ). Made me have another look at him LOL, but he was the same dog that qualified for Crufts that year. I just found it rather funny, and a bit sad that people seem to know 'doodles' more than poodles now.

When I had to go in to the emergency Vet with Jozi's Mastitis on Boxing day they had to make up a file and when they asked breed I told them Norwegian Elkhound, and they said they didn't have such a  breed listed so would crossbreed be OK, not impressed, I told them no way and to leave it blank or update their computer.

in my veterinary practice it is the receptionists who take the details (sorry, not meaning to offend any vet receptionists out there). i have went to reception several times to change a breed. but as jeangenie says, it does work the other way. had a "ridgeback" once at pdsa, was ablack lab cross? and also remember seeing a "sunrise yellow" GSD, a very rare breed apparently, looked like a gsd x lab, had lab ears and everything!
on a tangent, at a pdsa down south of england somewhere (not sure exact location) many years ago a couple brought in their rottie puppy, only had him a day or two, very worried about him, not wanting dog food, making funny noises etc, he was a black and tan guinea pig!!

Once worked in a quarantine kennels and we had a small chi x come in because the vet in spain messed up the paper work because he couldn't sex it and had wait and see what it was but it was a bitch, quite noticeable really. LOL  

Because I have Beardies my first Tibetan was greeted with 'that's a nice little collie pity about the gay tail though'.  She was minute at the time and never in a million years could she have even been a Beardie puppy!

Hi Jeff , sorry only just seen your post , yes we were at W & P but only with the Newfies our TM is not 6 months till 17th May but she will be in the ring after that, we did stay to see the TM males being shown.

Peanuts

Hi,
I look forward to seeing her, we could do with some more being shown. Who bred her? Any pics?
Jeff.