Does Your Dog Get Mistaken For Another Breed?

[one.eyed.dog]

I get asked if she is a lurcher. Yeh right.

 

 

A Spinone. Can see the this one but, she is a kind of geeky version

 

 

and Irish wolfhound.

 

[Jacobean]

I can understand people thinking she's a wasted away version of a Spinone Maybe they think she's a youngun.

 

Our Viz are quite often mistaken for Rhodesian Ridgebacks despite not having the ridge down their backs. A child was heard to say look at that pony when I was out with Issie once.

[Dollyamber]

Sylvester Spinone gets mistaken for a swing bin

 

 

 

On a more serious note I have also been asked if he is a Lurcher or a Brown and grey Schnauzer

[sanrossscot]

Nope but then collies are common sights I guess.

 

I have heard someone's Bearded Collie being described as a DUREX dog!!!!!!!

[houndzrus]

@ Sylvester.

 

Cherry gets mistaken for a wippet quite often.

 

we used to have a black and white Border Collie. If we had a pound for every time someone said "he's a bit like a sheepdog" we would be very rich.

[ailsas mum]

One woman today thought my pair were pomeranians, the one we normally get though is oh look there's lassie .

 

Terri

[Amie]

 

I once got asked by a Old man "Whats your Greyhound crossed with"

 

[kats n greys]

We've had both Cushna

 

 

and Sorda.

 

Described as

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pitbulls

 

We often get asked if Sorda and Aswan are greyhounds, even though they are usually stood next to "proper" greyhounds.

[DanishPastry]

Our Viz are quite often mistaken for Rhodesian Ridgebacks despite not having the ridge down their backs.

some RR's don't have a ridge though... I met one like that once.

 

 

Mine get mistaken for "sled dogs" a lot. Wolves by some children, and most people who don't think they are neither of the forementioned, think they are all gsd's.

[ranirottie]

and I have been asked if Ebbi (rottie) is a lab because she has a dark face......................but she has a docked tail!!!x

[Nettie]

The best was the time that I was asked by a lady, who I'm guessing came from Somalia (she had wonderfully elegant neck that Somali women tend to have) if they were dogs because they looked like wild animals she had seen in Africa. Yes we'll be walking wild animals on leads through SW London then!

[NR Boxer Rescue]

Funny thread!

 

 

Well people don't USUALLY mistake a Boxer, but one woman asked me if mine was a st bernard cross I don't know where she was coming from there!!!

 

 

Then the usually, people that call my lurcher a greyhound, or a whippet - even tho she stood 24 inches high !!

[Alison]

I get asked if she is a lurcher.

I frequently get asked if Sol is "a purebred lurcher"

 

Worse still, I frequently get told (by experts, mark you: "I should know, I used to breed them") that he's a greyhound There's no reasoning with these types either. No matter what I say, the conversation always ends with something along the lines of being able to tell that he must be fast out of the traps and that they'll be betting on him next time.

 

 

I once got asked by a Old man "Whats your Greyhound crossed with"

And I thought I had it rough in terms of mistaken dog identity - pass the Tena Lady!

[Careli]

We are often told (by those that know of course) that Bruno is a Belgium Shepherd!

 

 

He is soooooo not a Belgium Is it cause he's black??

[DanishPastry]

must be.... how come no one recognizes my belgian then

 

 

 

is it cos she's NOT black?

Edited May 11, 2008 by DanishPastry