What are the funniest things someone has ever said to you about your dogs?

Someone recently asked me, what species Jester was.  Apparently he didn't believe me that he's a dog.

[] That's hilarious! I guess he meant breed, but I would have really been tickled by that too.

Lol.
More than once people have asked me if Cadie (hasn't happened with Riley yet) is a Golden Retriever. No, she is not a Golden Retriever. : P

ORIGINAL: IrishSetterGrl

Lol.
More than once people have asked me if Cadie (hasn't happened with Riley yet) is a Golden Retriever. No, she is not a Golden Retriever. : P

opposite with my step mom and a dog down the road from her house... my sisters and i used to roam up and down their dead road. and there was a RED golden retriever. his name was Zeke and he would fetch a ball for hours or just be a friendly old companion dog. my step mom argued with me when i said he was a golden retriever... she said "no he's an irish setter. he's read. i used to have one when i was a kid and i should know" .... what can you do when you're only 12 years old and some grown up is telling you off like that? he was INDEED a red golden retriever... i have seen many many MANY picks of red GRs....  they all look like Zeke lol but you couldnt tell HER that. noooo..... she used to own one when she was a kid....she is an Irish Setter expert.

anyway weird questions about my dogs -
um.... i had a dobie mix that looked like a dobie with sable shepherd markings..  a guy once ask me if he hunts.... [8|] um.. only if you consider hunting for dinner as an option? the funny part was this guy was in the 7-11... i had walked from my house to this store to buy a coke.. and Darby (the dog) followed of course... he was sitting outside the store looking in like "Hey! get me some Frito's while you're in there!"    ...my dog .. a hunter?

I'm sometimes asked how much wolf my dogs are. (not a drop).

My neighbor once asked me if my old Great Dane was a "shaved wolf". No lie.

Once had a guy try to convince me that Basenjis were bred to hunt wolverines.  Wolverines are native to the arctic mainland of Russia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.  Basenjis are primitive dogs from the African plains.  Never have figured out where those two areas overlap. 

One time as I was securing my guys to a fence outside a coffee shop so I could sit on their patio and have a spot of tea, I heard someone behind me (never did correctly identify the culprit) exclaim "Pit bulls!!!!" Now, I love the pitties, but my dogs are basically as far as one could possible get from a pit bull and still be largish breed dogs. When was the last time you saw a pit bull with ears like Marlowe's? I don't expect everyone I meet to be able to correctly identify dog breeds (and Conrad is a mutt anyway and Marlowe is a breed pretty uncommon to urban areas north of the Mason-Dixon line), but that one really kind of made me scratch my head and is really indicative of the kind of thing that goes on that gives pitties such a bad rep--no one knows what a pit bull actually looks like so automatically ANY large dog that someone is afriad of becomes a pit bull.
 
I've also had people tell me my hounds are dumb. They don't mean it in a nasty way, it's just the stereotype of hounds that they're lazy and dumb. My response is, "Well they like to convince people of that so they can more easily steal your food."

People have asked me if Shadow was a wolf. That actually makes sense, since he can look like one.
 
Then there are the ones that just assume he's a Lab. My thought is, really? How many Lab lines have bushy tails carried curled over the back, four colors, double coats, and short, pointed ears?
 
When I explain that he is a Siberian Husky / Lab mix, most people understand and see that. Others, it goes over their heads.
 
 

The other day at Petco someone told me that my 5 month old Shih Tzu looks like the boxing promoter, Don King[] I guess maybe there is some resemblence.....

When i Took angel to the flea market ( no pun intended ) once, a child pointed at her and yelled " mommy look! A WereWolf!" I just couldn't help but giggle!
 
I also had some stranger try and tell me angel was blind because her eyes were 'blue'. Ok..yeah and i suppose blue eyes humans are too? e.e
 
 
 
 

I used to have a huge ball black Newf before my Landseer and I had someone approch me to ask if I would be interested breeding him to their female Pyr. Aparently they thought Brophy was a Pyr.That's someone who sould breed dogs!
 
I also am coustantly asked if my Landseer is a black & white Saint.

Ok yeah I don't know what a huge ball Newf is either Ops! Big I meant Big!

kaiser is apparently a black lab with cropped ears. No such thing as a black GSD. Wyatt is an angry pitbull-duh, his hair is bristled!