Irish Boston Terriers...

I can't count how many times people would see Tonka and say, "Is that a Boxer?"  (he was a Bullmastiff)  I guess they have a similar appearance (assuming both were the same color).  But Tonka was nearly twice the size of the average Boxer.  I guess he was like a Boxer on steroids!
 
I remember when we first spotted the Harlequin Great Dane that lived in our old neighborhood.  I was driving down the street and saw this man walking with an animal.  I was still a couple hundred feet away, and approaching them from behind.  I thought, "Why the heck is that man walking down a residential street with a cow?"  Hurricane ended up being Tonka's only dog friend that required a real stretch when he wanted to give his "hello sniff!"

I have a very unusual Pit Bull. I've also had people insist on it.

I've also had people insist that she's a beagle, and that she's an ACD or ACD mix. People are weird.... Of course, she's been called a Parson Russell, too. And my grandma always called her (very seriously!) a Jack Daniels Terrier (my FAVORITE misid so far!).

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I've had people ask me if my hound was a Pit Bull...[8|]

I've had my red minpin mistaken for a dobe puppy by a "breeder"  she said she had been breeding dobes for years and that puppy was a dobe puppy and nothing else!  Ok, well, he's been the same size for 8 years, thanks (he's 10 now) LOL. She also sternly warned me if I didn't crop his ears he'd battle lifelong ear infections. He's never had one and is still natural earred.
 
I have bichons and they of course get the poodle comment but the most irritating thing I hear is when someone says:  "is that one of them Bee-john frizees?"
So I say, yes, she is a bichon frise (be-shawn free-zay).  They reply, "Yes a bee-john!"
 
Oy.

I told everyone who asked that Sasha (my last dog) was a Saskatchewan Pig Hound! She was Lab/Boxer/Pit, but I always joke that she was one of these because she snorted like a pig, had floppy ears like a hound and had to be from somewhere exotic! ROFLLL

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...Another time a woman thought that she was a Norwegian Elkhound [8|]...

 
Now that's a riot.  Most people have never heard of a Norwegian Elkhound, and think they are some kindof Husky mix.  Someone on the Elkhound list I'm on had someone think one of her pups was an Akita pup. 
 
As for Mick, I had a guy insist he was an albino Lab once. 

When I lived in NJ everyone thought that Bubba was a miniature PitBull. Everyone use too say oh how cute! I have never seen a miniature pit before..  I would say well me either..

Hehehe, I have had my 2 Shiba Inu called some of the strangest things, and oddly enough tonight was the strangest.  Most people want to know how big they will get, and some argue that no I have to be wrong, I say well she is 10 years old if she has a growth spurt now she will be in some record books.  People will ask me what breed they are then they will ask what they are a cross of, well Shibas are one of the oldest breeds, so nothing I guess.  I always say do you know what an akita is?  This is waht the Akita was bred from.  Their reply, well they must be mean, OK sure, if that means your gonna get your grubby mitts off my dog then yes they are mean.

But really tonight, at work, my 2 get to come to work with me, and I work from 11 at night until 7 in the morning was the strangest.  So these 2 people come in and the lady asks me if they are my pits?  I look at her and say excuse me?  She repeats herself, so I guess she was serious.  Umm well no.  Some people are just well we will say special.
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My two pitties, LOL.

Well, I was feeling a bit blah today, and your stories have had me laughing so hard. []
 
Mine isn't particularly good, but this is what happens with me.  I'm out with Gulliver, my standard poodle.  Some person will look at Gulliver and say
"That a poodle?"
Me:  "Yes, he is"
Person:  "Never seen one that big before.  How d'ya get her that big?"
Me:  "This is the original size poodle, then they made them smaller."
Person:  "She's big though.  How d'ya get her that big?
Me:   "He's a standard poodle.  This is the size he's supposed to be"
Person:  "So how d'ya get her that big?"
Me:  "This is the size he's supposed to be.  He's not one of the little poodles"
Person:  "Never seen a poodle that big before.  She's real pretty though."
 
I get this at least a couple of times a week.  Ppl don't seem to grasp the size concept, OR seem able to take on board that some poodles are male.  Cracks me up every time. [8|]

My beagle, Maggie.  I've had a vet insist this.  I also had a lab guy very seriously ask to breed his stud to her because she was obviously a full-blooded Treeing Squirrel Dog.



And my favorite pit bull, or Jack Russell, depending on who you ask (she's full BC wih papers by the way):



Now, we might be able to call her a Treeing Squirrel Dog - here she is chasing the hose water up a tree:

UKPoodle, I feel your pain!  Gypsy (my Am Staff) has a very, very short coat, so no gentialia can be hidden by it.  I STILL get people asking about 'HIM".  HIM?  She has on a girly "bling" collar of red leather with purple and red crystals and obviously has NO penis, so I would assume "he" is a SHE, dammit! Don't you know ALL Poodles are girls and all "muscle" dogs are boys?  ROFLLLLL

Never seen a dog climb a tree like that before!  Does he ever get higher than that up the trunk?
 
Lorib, it's so true (sigh).  It even crossed my mind to get a female poodle this time so as I wouldn't have to put up with this! 
 
p.s. my friend has suggested that when ppl do the "how d'ya get her so big" thing, I should say "I never fed her puppy chow, I feed her raw meat and she just kept growing" LMAO.  (No offence to raw food ppl of course.)

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UKPoodle, I feel your pain!  Gypsy (my Am Staff) has a very, very short coat, so no gentialia can be hidden by it.  I STILL get people asking about 'HIM".  HIM?  She has on a girly "bling" collar of red leather with purple and red crystals and obviously has NO penis, so I would assume "he" is a SHE, dammit! Don't you know ALL Poodles are girls and all "muscle" dogs are boys?  ROFLLLLL

It's a scientific marvel!  All Pit Bulls (Am Staffs, and other bullies as well) are male, and all Collies are female.  How do these breeds reproduce?  Mother Nature is just awe inspiring! 

Malcolm in all his glory - short hair, nice set of jewels dangling in the back, and when he sits - a very obvious penis - was often told what a pretty girl he was.  This was while he was sitting - and we all know that you can't hide it then!

ORIGINAL: agilebasenji

That's funny, I have a pitt bull too.  Odd, mine looks nothing like Colliewog's. 

No, because yours is a TIGER PIT!  []

I haven't had anyone ask about my dogs, but I do have a story to add.
My neighbor has a purebred Doberman (black and tan). One day we were out front chatting and his dog was out there with us. This lady walking by stopped to pet the dog and then she asked "Is she (SHE is a HE) a Rottweiler/Chihuahua mix?" Yeah lady, and how exactly would THAT work?! LOL