Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:20 pm Post subject: What the oddest thing ever said to you ....
...while out with your dogs?
I tend to get the usual "Are they ALL yours?" or "Ooooh you've got your hands full" (usually by the person with one dog who's running rings round them while my lot are just pottering along at my side)....and I often think "If only I had a pound for every time I heard that".
However the other day, as I was pottering along, I was joined by a big Choccie boy, who was adamant he was coming home with me and my girls, rather than his Mum. So I stood and waited for her to come and collect him, which she did in the end. As she was walking away, she said "You look just like a Goat Herder with your lot walking all around you" .
I must say, I've been called a few things in my time, but never a Goat Herder and it's still tickling me when I think of it. Maybe I should change my name to Heidi.
When my 2 siblings were about 4 months old i had a lady come up to me in the park, she said hello to the pups and all she said was "shame they will die so close together in about 10-12 years and you'll have no dogs, i wouldn't like that" and then walked off. Very bizarre
LOL, that is funny, ages ago when I had my Bearded Collie cross, I was walking him, he was long haired and not easily recognised as a dog, someone stopped and said "what a lovely girl", I said he`s a boy, "Can`t be she said, he`s far too pretty to be a boy"
I am constantly told that my two are too thin to be labradors
I had a lady tell me only yesterday that they need fattening up She then asked if they're spayed. I told her yes they were and that started her off on a new 'Oh even more reason to get some weight on them then, poor things....most labs just LOVE getting fat after they've been spayed'
Tess wears a pink collar and harness and clearly has a girls name - yet several times I have been asked a) what's its name and after I've answered b) is it a boy or girl?????
The best is when we were coming off the beach, a couple coming down the boardwalk had already said hello to Jo's Irish Setters and Irene's lab and gsd x, then met us..... asked what Jed is - a boxer x pointer - oh! Asked what Bo is - a staffie x (by then he was up on his hind legs having a fuss off them) - oh!. I then said China is a when the man cut in and said "I know what she is - she's a pug"....... err, no, she is a fully grown boxer albeit a small one and still considerably larger than a pug!
I then said China is a when the man cut in and said "I know what she is - she's a pug"....... err, no, she is a fully grown boxer albeit a small one and still considerably larger than a pug!
I do get a lot of that "Mistaken Identity" thing too. Most people think Mojo is cross with a Collie, I've had two people ask if Pickle is a Staffie and loads of people ask what the Poodles are....and when I told one lady they were Poodles, she said she thought Poodles hair grew in "Those Pom Pom Things", so she didn't recognise mine
I'm still thinking about taking up Yodelling to go with my new image "Yodellaaaheeee, Yodellaaa He heeee".
By far the most stupid,idiotic thing i ever heard was when my sons friends mum saw my chocolate lab and said "oh theyre the equivalent to a downs syndrome child,they have an extra chromosome or something" i almost burst a blood vessel,its scary to think shes the parent to two children isnt it .i now avoid her at all costs
Everybody likes to point out Digger's black spot to me...
I don't mind the genuinely curious - oh he has a spot how come he has that type questions and I don't mind if people ask me if he's a pure lab, I'd probably be dubious of a black spot!
It's the people that go oh did you know he has a black spot!? Why no I never noticed it on my yellow dog! Or the one lady that thought he'd cut himself and had blood on him and seemed adamant that couldn't be his hair!
Then I get the oh he's a handful type comments cos yes he does charge round the park like an idiot but he always comes back to me and walks nicely with me unlike some others we meet.
And if I got a pound for every time someone elses dog jumped up to me I'd be rich...
The best recently has to be the family I met with a lab puppy 'Bobby' him and Digs were playing and Digs went to see the little girl who went ooo I don't like big dogs, so her mum said well that's what Bobby is going to be like. To which the little girl replied no I don't like big dogs Bobby isn't going to get that big.... Did worry me slightly as she was very nervous of Digs who didn't bounce at her just strolled up gently.
Oh and people always think he's called Nigger :/ one bloke even asked me if that was cos of his spot and was that politically correct...
Not what someone said to me but a kinda funny story... I was in the park the other day and he disappeared in the brambles as usual so I shouted for him 'Digger' now they're doing some work on the footpath in the park and they had a digger working! So I shout Digger and the bloke looks at me as if to say yes love it's a digger, I shouted again as he hadn't appeared cue another strange look. He came haring round the corner like he does so I shouted his name again else he loses me and he comes charging into my feet and the bloke looked as if to say oh the dog's called Digger. I think he thought I was a bit simple or very overexcited about the presence of a digger in the park
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i almost burst a blood vessel,its scary to think shes the parent to two children isnt it 
