What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
I just saw on another thread where folks were mentioning about dog breeds being misidentified by the public. Most people ask what breed my gsp is, but I am starting to get a complex I've had 2 different people in the last couple months ask if she was a greyhound. Of course, even when I tell them, most folks are still lost. Maybe I need to print pamphlets? :roll:
Thought it might be fun to see what breed do you have, and what's it been mistaken for?
Thought it might be fun to see what breed do you have, and what's it been mistaken for?
Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
"what is that? a springer spaniel?"
all the time
all the time
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My viz has been mistaken for a weim a few times. But because I live in a rural area the most common misidentification is for a redbone coonhound. When I tell them he's a vizsla, I always have to follow that up with "bird dog".
I haven't gotten my gsp out in public much yet, having brought her home just two weeks ago. When I show pictures, though, some people ask what breed she is but I haven't really gotten any guesses yet.
I haven't gotten my gsp out in public much yet, having brought her home just two weeks ago. When I show pictures, though, some people ask what breed she is but I haven't really gotten any guesses yet.
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
The good thing about owning a Setter, among other things, is people ALWAYS know it's a bird dog.
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
Two people have guessed Spinone, which isn't an awful guess. Someone suggested I should get a t-shirt that says "She's a Wirehaired Vizsla," since I have to say it over and over and over again when I'm out with her.
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
The people who ask are not hunters, therefore my dogs are always mutts.
Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
I have had some good ones:
Vizsla- She has gotten weim, greyhound, ridgeback, chocolate lab
GSP- When we go for walks we constantly hear the kids say, "look its a fire dog".
Vizsla- She has gotten weim, greyhound, ridgeback, chocolate lab
GSP- When we go for walks we constantly hear the kids say, "look its a fire dog".
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My GSP was solid liver and everyone thought she was a chocolate lab and what happened to her tail.GSPVIZ wrote:I have had some good ones:
Vizsla- She has gotten weim, greyhound, ridgeback, chocolate lab
GSP- When we go for walks we constantly hear the kids say, "look its a fire dog".
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My Welsh Springer Spaniel was always being pegged for a Brittany.
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I own a boarding kennel/grooming salon , so my boykin spaniel has been called a cocker , springer and a whole list of breeds other than a boykin, by customers after they see her playing in the yard
not one person has got it right yet, Duckman
not one person has got it right yet, Duckman
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Haha - I like this thread. Cash is a solid black shorthair and I get the "musta been some lab in the woodpile" ALL THE TIME! It really irked me at first, but I've moved on knowing otherwise. Living in SD most people recognize the popular bird dog species, so I don't think my liver and white shorthair has ever been mislabled - at least not to my knowledge anyway.
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
On more than one occasion Ive had people think my setter was a dalmation mix!
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I get asked a lot if Dutchess is a spaniel/hound cross....
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Ditto on what Shume wrote!..................Scottshume wrote:On more than one occasion Ive had people think my setter was a dalmation mix!
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
Two or three times I have had people mistake my Pointers for Walkers which we have a lot of in these parts.
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This thread is great!
My solid liver GSP is constantly getting pegged as a chocolate lab and it's always followed by "what happened to her tail." I've even had one girl call her a chocolate lab and proceed to tell me that my "lab" looked different than hers did in the face and that her dog's tail wasn't short.
I take Mae to Lowe's a lot (because we're constantly remodeling/fixing something) and I ran into a couple who from 10 feet away told me she was a pretty GSP... my jaw dropped and they proceeded to explain that their neighbors have shorthairs, but that they've never seen a solid liver. I was just excited that someone finally got it right!
My solid liver GSP is constantly getting pegged as a chocolate lab and it's always followed by "what happened to her tail." I've even had one girl call her a chocolate lab and proceed to tell me that my "lab" looked different than hers did in the face and that her dog's tail wasn't short.
I take Mae to Lowe's a lot (because we're constantly remodeling/fixing something) and I ran into a couple who from 10 feet away told me she was a pretty GSP... my jaw dropped and they proceeded to explain that their neighbors have shorthairs, but that they've never seen a solid liver. I was just excited that someone finally got it right!
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
Let's see...I've gotten the following with my GSP:
Dalmation (or firedog), Springer Spaniel, Weim mix, and Greyhound mix.
But my all time favorite...." Is that a Great Dane pup?"
I've discovered that the people who know the breed have either had one before, hunt, or knew someone that had one. I just sometimes wish the breed had a shorter name since the G.S.P. acronym doesn't typically work.
Dalmation (or firedog), Springer Spaniel, Weim mix, and Greyhound mix.
But my all time favorite...." Is that a Great Dane pup?"
I've discovered that the people who know the breed have either had one before, hunt, or knew someone that had one. I just sometimes wish the breed had a shorter name since the G.S.P. acronym doesn't typically work.
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Moses must have looked a lot like a Springer when he was young cuz he got called that a lot. Now even most hunters just give me kind of a blank stare when I say he's a Large MUnsterlander.
When they see him work and find out he's only 8mos they warm right up and want to know all about the breed.
dennmor
When they see him work and find out he's only 8mos they warm right up and want to know all about the breed.
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
My Weims have been called:
Silver Labs
Greyhounds
GSP's
viszlas
Great Danes when they are puppies
I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,
Silver Labs
Greyhounds
GSP's
viszlas
Great Danes when they are puppies
I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
Silver lab. That sounds about right. People don't know so they just fabricate an entirely new breed.CherrystoneWeims wrote:My Weims have been called:
Silver Labs
Greyhounds
GSP's
viszlas
Great Danes when they are puppies
I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,
I also like Wisenheimer...
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Steve, Good to know people in some parts of the country are familiar with setters.
When we take ours just out and about in public, the most common guess is a Dalmation! :roll: I know our field setters don't have quite as much feathering as a bench breed, but come on! Dalmation??? Spots are about the only thing they have in common.
Other guesses have been Springer, Springer mix, Es mix, Dalmation mix, or people just generalize them as a spaniel. Less than 1/5 have ever guessed English Setter, which is what I usually say they are, with "bird dog" added. I don't even bother saying Llewellin half the time because most folks are confused enough with the English Setter. IF I say they are Llewellins, I have to follow it up with the basic "it's a field strain of the ES."
When we take ours just out and about in public, the most common guess is a Dalmation! :roll: I know our field setters don't have quite as much feathering as a bench breed, but come on! Dalmation??? Spots are about the only thing they have in common.
Other guesses have been Springer, Springer mix, Es mix, Dalmation mix, or people just generalize them as a spaniel. Less than 1/5 have ever guessed English Setter, which is what I usually say they are, with "bird dog" added. I don't even bother saying Llewellin half the time because most folks are confused enough with the English Setter. IF I say they are Llewellins, I have to follow it up with the basic "it's a field strain of the ES."
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For my Weims, I've had people ask if they are labs. I almost want to say yea, they turn real gray and their tails shrink when they get old. But, mostly I think people ask what kind of dog they are.
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LOL yea, I've heard some pretty messed up pronunciations also.CherrystoneWeims wrote:My Weims have been called:
I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,
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I've gotten Springer spaniel and, most recently, Chesapeke Bay Retriever on my GSPs. It's amazing the number of people that have no idea what a GSP is. Theyr'e are not real common in S.C., but I knew what they were long before I owned one.
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I've gotten all of the above for my 'weimar-what's-its' For years we took flak at field trials. Folks would pull us aside and kindly point out that there was something wrong with the coat/color of our pointers/shorthairs. I'd get comments like "Honey, you might want to change dog foods. Your shorthair's all FADED!!"
One neighbor was so insistant that my weims were greyhound/great dane crosses, that I finally gave in and agreed with him :roll:
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One neighbor was so insistant that my weims were greyhound/great dane crosses, that I finally gave in and agreed with him :roll:
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
I got springer when the first pup was young and dalmatian, dalmatian mix mix when he was older.
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
Wasn't it longhaired dalmation????
I've had greyhounds, funny looking lab, even pitbull once???????
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
[quote="HMiller"]My solid liver GSP is constantly getting pegged as a chocolate lab and it's always followed by "what happened to her tail." I get that one too.
Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
no one ever knows what a Gordon Setter is! It is never mistaken, just never known what it is
Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
My mostly white GSP has been mistaken a bunch of times for a English Pointer.
"I've never seen an EP with a docked tail before!" They say enthusiastically.
"That's because she's a shorthair."
"...oh."
"I've never seen an EP with a docked tail before!" They say enthusiastically.
"That's because she's a shorthair."
"...oh."
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I was once told "I've never seen a Lab with curly hair before." My reply was "You still haven't."
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
LOL - My wife's cousin has a weim and she calls him (the dog) a weim-in-heimer.CherrystoneWeims wrote:I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,
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I get weim a lot, and the occasional redbone, and even Chessie every once in a while, but the most common one for me is Rhodesian ridgeback. I always end up saying Vizsla and explaining that he's a "bird dog", but around here even that doesn't seem to help.
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With my GSP lady who is small boned - 43# and built like a throughbred race horse. "Is that a Geyhound"? Now I just nod and keep going. As long as she finds the quail and woodcock here in south La. I don't care about the silly questions!
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Silver lab,Charcoal lab and Fox red labs are not a fabricated breed ,They are real ,I see silver labs alot in my line of work ,DUCKMANEddieF wrote:Silver lab. That sounds about right. People don't know so they just fabricate an entirely new breed.CherrystoneWeims wrote:My Weims have been called:
Silver Labs
Greyhounds
GSP's
viszlas
Great Danes when they are puppies
I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,
I also like Wisenheimer...
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Wow I stand corrected, my bad. Good thing I don't guess unless I know! There's a huge dog show in our area this coming weekend, my wife and I like to go and try to (quietly) identify all the breeds we see. She knows most of them. I don't.duckman wrote:Silver lab,Charcoal lab and Fox red labs are not a fabricated breed ,They are real ,I see silver labs alot in my line of work ,DUCKMANEddieF wrote:Silver lab. That sounds about right. People don't know so they just fabricate an entirely new breed.CherrystoneWeims wrote:My Weims have been called:
Silver Labs
Greyhounds
GSP's
viszlas
Great Danes when they are puppies
I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,
I also like Wisenheimer...
Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
I have had a lot of the same ones that other people have had, wiem, gsp, redbone coonhound, lab and etc.
But the one that takes the cake is someone guessed Basset Hound. He was about 14 months at the time and probably 50 lbs. Still can not figure that one out.
brandon
But the one that takes the cake is someone guessed Basset Hound. He was about 14 months at the time and probably 50 lbs. Still can not figure that one out.
brandon
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We were out walking Dyson and Morgan (Vizsla and Belgian Malinois) and a guy came up and asked if they were a pitbull puppy and Coyote we were walking. Yeah sure. I always go and take my coyote out for a walk in the middle of downtown!
:roll:
Carla
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That's the best one yet!!1vizsla wrote:We were out walking Dyson and Morgan (Vizsla and Belgian Malinois) and a guy came up and asked if they were a pitbull puppy and Coyote we were walking. Yeah sure. I always go and take my coyote out for a walk in the middle of downtown!
:roll:
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I had my tri-colored setter mistaken for a dalmatian on more than a few occasions. :roll:
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What a funny topic! I thought it was only my problem all these years. I had a Curly Coat Retriever and for 11 years I had to explain that no, she's not a Poodle mix or a Labradoodle. When I told one couple at a gas station in Wyoming that no, she was a Curly Coat Retriever, I overheard the woman say as they walked away, "There's no such thing as a curly coat retriever; he just made that up."
Several times I would say in jest that she was a Lab and that we had just got her back from the hair dressers. People would say, "Really?!" "No."
So when Belle, the CCR, died last Spring I decided to get an English Setter and thought my days of explaining what breed she was would be over. No such luck. As many mentioned above, the ES pup is usually taken for a Dalmatian mix or a spaniel. As with my CCR it's gotten to the point where I just go along with them - "Yep, she's a long -haired Dalmatian."
Several times I would say in jest that she was a Lab and that we had just got her back from the hair dressers. People would say, "Really?!" "No."
So when Belle, the CCR, died last Spring I decided to get an English Setter and thought my days of explaining what breed she was would be over. No such luck. As many mentioned above, the ES pup is usually taken for a Dalmatian mix or a spaniel. As with my CCR it's gotten to the point where I just go along with them - "Yep, she's a long -haired Dalmatian."
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My Liver & White springer gets mistaken for a Brittany all the time..... We were walking our previous L&W Springer & a little girl ( 3 - 4 yrs old) comes up and asks the hubby "does your dog have chicken pox?" due to all the ticking.... we died laughing.....
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My Griffon gets mistaken all the time. Some think he's a German Wirehaired Pointer and others just have no idea what he is.
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Actually the "Silver Lab" is a Weim crossed with a Lab. It takes a few generations to get back the silver grey coat. If you look on many of the "Silver Lab" breeders sites some will admit that they are Weim/Lab crosses.duckman wrote:Silver lab,Charcoal lab and Fox red labs are not a fabricated breed ,They are real ,I see silver labs alot in my line of work ,DUCKMAN
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Sorry ,I just meant ,that silver lab was not just a name pulled from a hat , that there really are silver labs out there,CherrystoneWeims wrote:Actually the "Silver Lab" is a Weim crossed with a Lab. It takes a few generations to get back the silver grey coat. If you look on many of the "Silver Lab" breeders sites some will admit that they are Weim/Lab crosses.duckman wrote:Silver lab,Charcoal lab and Fox red labs are not a fabricated breed ,They are real ,I see silver labs alot in my line of work ,DUCKMAN
I always liked the weim for the color (and brains), the color is what made me like the silver labs ,Thanks ,DUCKMAN
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looks like not too many EP people have commented here...
Mine ALWAYS gets mistaken for a whippet... that is the first thing anyone asks me about my dog, "is she a whippet? no? well she looks like one."
Mine ALWAYS gets mistaken for a whippet... that is the first thing anyone asks me about my dog, "is she a whippet? no? well she looks like one."
Brian
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english setter....... you should have seen the glare in my dogs eyes. didn't know where that came from though, where is the tail :roll:
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Re: What breed has your dog been mistaken for?
I actually had someone ask me if my liver and white GSP was a brown dalmation.