What are some of the funniest things you have heard?

That visit was early 2005 when I was donating some food Shadow couldn't finish. The Sherman animal shelter has a 7-day euth schedule. I never found out what happened and it breaks my heart every time I go there and it is through an absolutely herculean act of will that I don't bring another one home. We visited there again and they had another Sibe and Sibe mix (spring of this year). I think one of them had a chance. One of the volunteers on National Adoption Weekend there was from Alaska and had worked at a sled dog kennel, managing 80 dogs. She was loving all over this one happy-go-lucky male. Chances are likely that female mix (white fur of medium length, blue eyes, husky stature and carriage) is either at the bridge or was hopefully adopted or was picked up by a rescue group.

Sorry. I'm a big old softie and it hurts to go there because I can't help as much as I would like to and I know their time is limited. I donate, usually cash, every Saturday. Every Saturday, they set up mobile adoption at the Petco in Sherman and I put loose ones in the mason jar hanging on the mobile kennel. I shy away from being an ACO because I have doubts as to how professionally I could handle an encounter with a suspect. The one permanent doggie resident there is a female lab mix, 7 years old. She is unadoptable because of temperment. The state of Texas has decreed that she will live her natural life there, I think, as a testament to the depravity of humans. As a puppy, her own poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. The reconstructive surgery holds her together but she bears the scars of a human monster. In addition, the suspect was of dark skin color and she goes ballistic around anyone of dark skin. It is against the law to deny adoption on the basis of skin color or ethnic background, so she can't legally be offered for adoption. It's a catch-22. The suspect got a fine and  a 6-month probated sentence. I think the only time he actually spent in jail was between detainment and arraignment/bail hearing, approx 1.5 days.

I'm more effective handing over cash.

And I've wandered off track, so to speak. Tell your friends I'm sorry.

IEverytime I take Princess out, people always ask if she is a rottweiler... or I hear kids walking by "Awe, mommy! Thats a baby rottweiler!" I rarely (but still do) get asked if she is a german shepherd.

She is a Black Lab/ Austrailan Shepherd.

Close, yet so far, lol!


I do admit that her colors make her look just like a rottie!


I get it all the time that I've given up correcting passer-byers, lol

Favorite so far "Aren't you going to dock her tail?" Uhhh, no.

I can't tell you how many times my Great Dane has been referred to as a horse.  How much does she weigh?  How tall is she?  I didn't know they come in white?  The last question in this series always varies and it is that question that makes me laugh.

We get "are those wolves? you're not allowed to own wolves!" Um, yep, curly tailed wolves. That's what they are for sure! []

This is just a pet peeve - not funny at all.   It really bugs me when people say:  "Is your Lab English or American?"   I *should*  be happy that JQP is beginning to realize that there is a split in type amongst Labs, but it just irks me.  It bugs me as much as the Golden Lab thing. 

ORIGINAL: Xerxes


When I get asked their names I usually say "That one there is called 'Shut up' and the other one, she's 'Be quiet.' "

 
[sm=rotfl.gif]I love it. 
 
 

This is one I read in the Washington Post Magazine, in a cartoon about a guinea pig that's trying to get back to the preschool he lives at (got lost I guess, missed the first cartoon) and he runs into a dog who thinks he's some kind of prey, and the guinea pig says "No, I'm a teacup pitbull." I laughed so hard I cried!

(went back and looked at it and I think it's a guinea pig, not a hamster!)

Bichon is always butchered into Bishin Fizzay.  Or people who own a particular breed and don't know the correct name, like "minature collie" (sheltie), or "wiener dog" (dachshund)
I used to work for a dog groomer and after that a pet supplies store.  I heard some pretty dumb things.

Actually a couple weeks ago a client of mine was having a holloween thing.  As he is my largest client, I had to attend, all day[&o].  Anyways, this lady came in with a very overwieght Boston that was pulling her through the store.  She wanted something to stop the dog from pulling.  The lady seemed "one french fry short of a happy meal" to me, so I decided maybe Premier's No Pull Harness would be the best choice for her.  Everytime I would try to talk to the lady about the product her dog would pull her somewhere else with her feet stomping down the aisles.  It was like a cartoon.

Most of my pet store stories are sad funny.  You feel bad for the dog that it's owner is such an idiot.

The funniest thing I heard at the grooming shop was "I know he's matted but I don't want it too short."  That one always got me.  Or "he bites, but don't put a muzzle on him."

The best thing I think i've heard was when someone asked if Max was , "one of them razorback dogs," which I think was supposed to mean a rhodesian ridgeback. He's doesn't have the ridge, nor does he have anything remotely resembling ridge. Maybe I just find it so ridiculous because I can tell one from clear across the park.

I get asked all the time if Willow is a bear or "part bear" or a "bear mix", LOL! 

ORIGINAL: Scout in Canada

I often get the "is she a pit bull" all the time but to me she doen't even seem to have a trace of pittie in her

I've had someone tell me that any dog with a half & half black & white face has pittie in it!! []

Gee, then the Smooth Fox terrier I saw at a dog show must have been a Pittie--her face was half white and half black! ROFLLL

People always ask what Gypsy is. "She's a Stffershyre? What's that?  She looks like a Pit Bull. You know she's going to turn on you when she gets X years old.?"

There's always the ever-popular, "Is she mean?" as she's wagging her entire hind end.

The Golden Lab thing bugs me to no end as well. Also, the people who have purebred Labradoodles, Cockapoos, "a Miniature Doberman" (Min Pin--Geeze[8|]), and of course, Police Dogs (no, not  aTerv or Mal or GSD, just a Police Dog). ACK.[:'(]

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Emma, who weighs in at a whopping 18 pounds has been mistaken for a Pit Bull, at least five times.



Okay, now that is just bizarre!

It's the head shape and the defined muscles. We have a LOT of OBESE JRT in this area. People aren't used to looking at a lean, muscular dog.

She's also been called an ACD, because she has freckles. Go figure.

ORIGINAL: Xebby
I think there are people out there who think there are only 5 breeds of dogs and if your dog is not one of them then they get confused.

Hound Dog- Any dog with flopy ears
poodle- Common small dog
Pit Bull-thanks to the news
German Shepherd-aka Police dog
Dalmation-thanks to the movie...

 
Yeah, the if the dog has any ticking or spots, it's at least part Dalmation gets me, too.  Or how about if there's any blue on the tongue it's part Chow? 

I just remembered the wackiest thing I've been told...
 
Our renter's girlfriend said "Wow Scout definitely has some Chow in her, yeah for sure".
 
Sooooooo has she ever SEEN a chow? Scout is practically the polar opposite!!

ORIGINAL: micksmom

ORIGINAL: Xebby
I think there are people out there who think there are only 5 breeds of dogs and if your dog is not one of them then they get confused.

Hound Dog- Any dog with flopy ears
poodle- Common small dog
Pit Bull-thanks to the news
German Shepherd-aka Police dog
Dalmation-thanks to the movie...

Yeah, the if the dog has any ticking or spots, it's at least part Dalmation gets me, too. Or how about if there's any blue on the tongue it's part Chow?

I've gotten the "Is she a Dalmations/Black Lab mix" for Giz just because she is mostly black and has some speckles on her white part of her body. It's really gets to me that people don't know that there are more than just a few breeds of dogs. Like they think that all black dogs must be part black lab. Errr... there are more than 5 to 10 dog breeds!

I'm also surprizes at how many dont' know what a BC is, I'll say she is a border collie and they ask "what's that?" or "Oh, so she is a collie mix"[&:]