Do strangers label your dog as a breed that he/she isn't?

[my3dogs]

I've had strangers ask if Daisy is a.....
- lab
- lab/Dane
- lab/Weimaraner
- pitbull

And some people insist that she is the dog from Turner and Hooch.  Close...but not the right type of mastiff.

I explain that she is a Neapolitan Mastiff but that is often met with a blank stare so sometimes I don't bother.

How about you? 
Do strangers label your dog as a breed that he/she isn't?



 

[Icerotti]

YES!  I always get choc lab for Farley   Then when you say Vizsla they look like I am making the name up..lol I can relate to the blank stare.

Puck--not really. But I hate the "oh is that a Rockweiler "    lol

[dober_gurl]

umm a lot of people think Maggie is a Rottweiler or Pit Bull. Marty my miniature dachshund is usually mistaken at Maggie's puppy.

[GR8DAME]

Absolutely.
When I had my red dobie people would ask if he was a chocolate lab and when I told them doberman they would jump back like he was going to eat them.
Merlin has been accused of being a mismarked overgrown dalmation and a holstien cow.
Strider is understandible, being a mixed breed, but he has been diagnosed as a wiemeriener and a greyhound.
It doesn't bother me when someone guesses wrong, but it really makes me mad when I tell them what they are and the people proceed to argue and tell me why I am wrong.
Stella

[BabsT]

Zero is the biggest yellow lab anyone has ever seen and Misha is a very large boned chow LOL

[GrumpyBunny]

Weirdly, no.  I sometimes don't even think Ranger looks all that Saint Bernard mix-y, but everyone who comments on him always says "Oh, is he part Saint Bernard"?  Go figure...

[Kiahpyr]

People usually ask or guess right what Kiah is. I do get oh my friend has a black one. I proceed to tell them that pyrs are mainly white and can have tan/gray markings like Kiah. They then argue with me that they come in black. GGGRRR!

[Good Hope]

With Sapphire, they have no clue... so they ask. When I answer they squish their faces and look at me like I just sneezed. lol.

Deena

[Moni]

Tenchi gets called dalmation, weimeraner and greyhound.. but has been mistaken for a goat on numerous occasions.    

Mojo gets called a "Lassie Dog"  all the time.. or st bernard?  Must be the coloring? ? ?

Faust is a police dog of course. 

And Zeo gets called dalmation or poodle cross???

Kida is pomeranian, papillon or chihuaha.    The pap part i don't mind....  lol

[2dobies]

I used to get asked if Darmok was a Rott/Pit cross. She is mistakenly called a "Rottwilder" by some of the local yokels because she is a big, wide butt! But the people around here that KNOW what she is say, "hey, nice Doverman!"

[newflvr]

Cowboy is a dalmation???  a Holstein??  a Ford Explorer??? a mix...dalmatio n and

Yesterday, I took Chester for a long ramble near the beach and he was called a Lab-Newf mix but he was really too small to have much Newf in him  .  Boy, was he shocked when I told the guy he was 8 1/2 months old!!, a different sort of Irish Setter (yep!  Right on that one...very different )

I always just laugh because really, you don't see these guys very often and it's fun to hear what people think!  My favorite of all time was when I was walking our very vicious Akita who was  snow white and a woman proceeded to tell me how I should train my samoyed....and wanted to love on him.  Teddy was NOT a guy to let strangers touch him and he wanted to eat her on the spot.  Samoyeds are like that I guess !

[VdogLover]

Often...
 My girls have been called Red Weims many times (? no such thing), Lab mixes, Rhodesian , and Pits. Even had the AC ask if they were Pits or mixes of I guess anything with a red nose is a Pitbull nowadays.

Then when you tell them what they are they still have no clue so I say they are a hunting breed and leave it at that.

[Kermit]

The weirdest thing I ever experienced was when I was walking my friend's yellow lab and someone asked me if he was a Rottweiler.

[2dobies]

The weirdest thing I ever experienced was when I was walking my friend's yellow lab and someone asked me if he was a Rottweiler.

Those Rockwilders are pretty popular guys, huh?

[ZooCrew]

It doesn't happen so much anymore, as people in the area know me and my dogs.  But when we first moved here I had a kid state that Keiko was a coyote.  Whaaaa??!!  I get asked alot if she is part wolf.  I actualy have no idea what her other 1/2 is, but it's probably mostly shepherd, so I tell them probably not any wolf (I have actually met two supposed wolf crosses....... ..one wolf/husky/shep and one shep/wolf that look almost identical to her, but slightly bigger)  Most people can guess the husky right way........... ..they eye gives it away.  One person asked if she was part aussie.

When we got Gunther, and he was smaller, we got the usual pit, greyhound comments.   After he passed 8 months old, no one has been wrong since with guessing what he is.  I swear everyone I meet has either at one point had a great dane or bred great danes.  I never realized how popular they were.