micksmom
Posted : 11/6/2006 8:36:09 AM
"We have a purebred cockapoo". No, you don't.
ORIGINAL: ron2
In spite of the bushy tail curled over the back, the small pointed ears, and the four colors in the fur and the glow-in-the-dark eyes, this one lady thought Shadow was a mix of Black and Chocolate Lab. I should have been rude and asked her which line of Labs have small pointed ears that can be held up. But my manners got the best of me.
Around here, Lab is king. So, any big dark colored dog must be a lab something.
Don't ya love it, Ron? It's the same around here- if it's black, it must be at least part Lab. What gets me is the Petfinder listings of dogs with erect ears who are listed as a mix of breeds with floppy ears.
One of my pet peeves is the white/golden/fox red Lab thing. Folks- they're all yellow. The only time I bit my tongue was with my niece- she was thrilled when my good for mothing ex BIL promised to get her a Golden Lab. I just went along with it- besides the fact that we all knew it would never happen, I dodn't want to correct her because she would have corrected her father, and then there would have been you know what to pay.
I just saw two ads in the paper that got me- same "breeder". I can't remember the breeds, but they were toys. Anyway- noth ads advertised tea cup/tiny and regular sizes, but then went on to say they breed to AKC standards. HUH?
Oh yeah- another pet peeve- the tea cup and king/giant (Poodles, Yorkies, etc).