Dumb Things Strangers Do to Dogs

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I just had a funny.  Well, it kinda pissed me off, but it was still sort of funny.

I decided to have BBQ for dinner tonight.  Cher went to the door with me to get my order from the delivery girl.  I put Cher in a sit-stay, & am getting money out of my purse when the girl says "Wow, you're a really ugly dog."  WTF???  I was really, REALLY annoyed but bit my tongue.  I paid her, in exact change with no tip.  She looked at me & had the guts to ask "Did you forget my tip?"  At this point, I couldn't help myself..."Oh, I forgot your tip."  She nods.  "Here's your tip....If you insult someone's dog, you don't get a freakin tip!!!"

 

OMG that makes me angry!  Where is that girl?  I have tip for her.  I did lol at your response though!!!  Love it.

lorib

Then there are the people who tell me Radar is a "reindeer" Chihuahua.  WTH is THAT???

Lori, you have a "reindeer" chihuahua?  How rare!  :P  Here a "reindeer" chihuahua or "deer" chihuahua are chis who have longer legs.  Then there are the "apple head" chihuahuas, who's heads are bigger than the rest of their bodies, & the "teacup" chis, who are a whopping 2-3 pounds, & appear to me ummmm not all there mentally due to their tiny features.

The Cher comment will come back to bite the girl in the butt.  DH's best friend is the GM of that restaurant, so I called him to let him know what happened.  He promised not to fire her, but he says that she is going to scare the crap out of her for her comment.

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She looked at me & had the guts to ask "Did you forget my tip?"  At this point, I couldn't help myself..."Oh, I forgot your tip."  She nods.  "Here's your tip....If you insult someone's dog, you don't get a freakin tip!!!"

 Two thumbs up.  Idiot.  I bet you $20 she has the ugliest chihuahua at home and dresses it up like a doll to be "cute".

 An otherwise very nice girl today kept insisting that Callie was a golden. The conversation went something like this:

Her: Oh, I have a golden, how old is yours.

Me: She's actually not a golden, she's a mix. She's five months old

Her: Oh well, she looks exactly like my dog did when she was 5 months old (really, your dog had a big white spot on the front?)

Me: No, her parents are both mutts. 

Her: When you get bigger and your hair gets longer, you won't be so soft anymore (to Callie)

We were in the small dog side of the park, and hers was in the big dog side. We were the only ones in the small dog side. 

Her: Do you mind if I bring my golden over, she likes other dogs who are the same kind as her. 

Me: (I just gave up on this at this point) Yeah, no problem, I'd bring them over there actually if the doberman on the prong wasn't in there. 

Her to her boyfriend: I'm bringing her over to meet this other golden. 

To me, this dog only remotely resembles a golden, but whatever. 

...grab them with one hand on each side of their face to "kiss" them. (Do you do that to people, too?)

...pick up leashed, little dogs, without asking. (Seriously, people, WTF.)

...stare really intently at dogs to try to earn their attention/affection. (This isn't stupid so much as uneducated, but it FREAKS poor Rascal out!)

...scream when a dog frightens them, even if it's safe/restrained/unable to reach them. (I respect people's fear, but seriously, when does screaming make a tense situation better?)

...when told that the dog "isn't friendly," and instructed not to pet the dog, they insist, "It's okay, I loooooove dogs!" and try to do it anyway. (No, you're not that special.)

...hold unknown dogs up to their faces for "kisses." (At least it's better than them trying to kiss the dog, but seriously, that's messed up.)

...refer to all small, fluffy, cute-looking dogs by tongue-in-cheek names like "Killer." (You may think it's funny, but as someone working on aggression issues with my dog, I can assure you I don't share your amusement.)

...refer to all small, fluffy, cute-looking dogs as "she," regardless of how many times they're corrected. (This one just makes me giggle.)

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Walk your three year old kid right up to the dog's face to "Say hello to the nice doggy."  (What if he isn't nice - faceless child?)

Ugh, we get this one^ a lot with Apollo. I hate it. He is extremely friendly and social with people (and dogs) but, jeeze, doG forbid an accident ever happens (and they do sometimes). We literally had a women take her infant out of the carriage to put in Apollo's face because their Lab at home loved to "kiss" their baby . Apollo was like, WTH am I supposed to do with this thing??

We've had so many people come up to us right out of the blue to tell us a horror story about their Grandma's or cousin's or aunt's cocker spaniel that bit everyone....*sigh*....or some cocker they knew couldn't be groomed or peed everywhere all the time, or some cocker they had was just a downright horrible dog and they'd never own one again...so we should watch out for that....makes me SO MAD. But, my DH says, opinions are like you-know-what, everybody's got one!

Cita

...grab them with one hand on each side of their face to "kiss" them. (Do you do that to people, too?)

 

Emma hated this one, too. She actually gained a bite record, over that bologna.

 

My FAVORITE kid-dog idiocy has to be when kids throw their arms around dogs and parents praise them for hugging the nice doggy. My dogs have been jackpotted, repeatedly, for allowing this (Bean ate half a funnel cake, once, while I pried the child off with my other hand), but SERIOUSLY..... Not ok.

A friend of mine and her husband thinks it's fun to call my two little dogs 'kickers' or 'gerbils' or 'overgrown rats' and they think it's a RIOT. And, for some asinine reason they think I should find it amusing, too.

 

So, I'm thinking about referring to their two kids as uncontrollable, snot-faced, pants-crapping, pygmy brats. We'll see how they like it.

 

These are all so classic.  I think I've experienced most of them at least once.

The one I really hated.  I had Chloe in PetSmart to socialize her.  A toddler sprinted around a corner, and had her up in the air kissing her before either of us knew what happened.  She got mondo treats and praise for not wigging out at that.  Even, to a lesser anger-inducing extreme, kids ALWAYS want to hold them.  They aren't stuffed animals, geeze.

Also, "Those are one of those ugly contest dogs, aren't they?"  I just want to say FO but,  "No, they are chinese cresteds."  Then, invariably, "Chinese what?"  "Cresteds, for the mane on their head."  "Oh, crescents.  Chinese crescents." 

 I've had....

• people (numerous times) bark and growl at my dogs, seriously
• toddlers run screaming at my dogs while their parents laughed and did nothing
• one kid push another kid into my dog
• kids taunt my dogs along the fence, run back and forth taunting them and then complain that my dogs always bark at them
• someone stop me and insist that I mate Kenya with his "100 pound German Shep- wait I mean Belgian sheepdog"
• someone try to buy my puppy from me
  

Luckily though, I've had really good experiences too.  When Nikon was 8 weeks old we were in Kentucky for the HUGE annual German Shepherd show, 4 days long, 400 dogs, people from all over the world.  Our group had a vendor tent because we were doing photography, so we all had our puppies in expens next to the tent.  Some kids from another group came over and played with our puppies almost all day, every day.  That was a real blessing for me since I don't know any little kids.  Nikon got a ton of exposure being manhandled by these kids and I really believe it is a major reason why he adores kids (Kenya, not so much).  They were also very good about asking every time they came back, and asking when they wanted to feed the puppies treats.  They used all their spending money buying our puppies treats.  These kids came from GSD kennel families, so they were used to the "landshark" biting and nipping, didn't bother them one bit.

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So, I'm thinking about referring to their two kids as uncontrollable, snot-faced, pants-crapping, pygmy brats. We'll see how they like it.

 Someone here calls them "crib trolls"...

 Rug rats.

Cita

...refer to all small, fluffy, cute-looking dogs by tongue-in-cheek names like "Killer." (You may think it's funny, but as someone working on aggression issues with my dog, I can assure you I don't share your amusement.)

Kujo says in Mom's defense she was being called Sage but Dad wouldnt quit calling her Kujo and she got used to it. And it didnt help Samantha was also calling her Kujo also.

 

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Paige, hearing "mini doberman" is like nails raking down a chalkboard for me.  I visibly cringe when I hear that.

 

 

I cringe when I hear "mini" Aussie too.  What are they supposed to herd, mini cattle????? 

 There actually are mini cattle.  Current breeds have been bred up in size. So there is work for mini herders.