"Those people" with dogs that make you shake your head - Page 1

I am figuring most of you have had those moments with "those people" who have dogs that make you go WTF, so share for fun (but no names or figure pointing please, just for laughs , thank you).

Here are mine:
Went into local Pet Supermarket and a lady walked in with the weirdest looking dog I have ever seen.  It appeared drugged (eyes not focusing and 3rd eyelid showing) or had neurological issues.  She was proudly explaining her dog to me.  She breeds (and I quote) "purebred Shiloh Shepherd Wolves".  She says she has had a marvelous time and was so "lucky to have her wonderful boy here" and is hoping one of the next litters produces a "wonderful girl" so she can breed them together to make "even purer purebred Shiloh Shepherd Wolves" and then she can apply to AKC to accept her new breed.  She also went on to say her husband wanted her to find a hobby and she did.  The workers at the petstore told me that she has had 6 litters with huge temperment or neuro issues and most have been euthanized or placed in special facilities.  According to one person who went to deliver supplies, the lady houses her dogs very well in airconditioned/heated runs with ample room to run.  She received my unofficial "WTF" Gold Star award.

As I have stated before in a previous thread, the "breeder" who wants to "breed dogs with the best of both breeds" got my runner up WTF award.  She stated she loves dogs and wanted to help the dog world out by breeding dogs everyone wanted.  Her first attempt was a Great Dane/Yorkie mix because everyone loves both dogs, but one is too big and one is too small (her words).  This breeding didn't work out for whatever reason so now she breeds for "temper-ma-ment, you know, the temper thingy" (honest, she said that according to my sister-in-law).  Her next attempt was a Pitbull/Poodle mix because "everyone knows the pitbut is too macho and has a bad reputation" while "everyone knows the poodle is gay" (not sure how female poodles fit in).  She used a "girl poodle cause I wanted a pretty momma to make pretty babies and having the boy a pitbull because it is just as it should be".  Don't know how this turned out but my sister-in-law got one of the puppies of her next breeding experiment, the Akita/Lab.  Akita because "they are too unfriendly" and labs because "they are goofy and too friendly".

I have a couple. 

Working as a groomer, you can really lose your faith in humanity- you have to laugh about some things or you'll just cry instead. All groomers get people with dogs whose coats are nothing but a mat and they "want to leave the fur long." Ugh. I have a couple funnier grooming stories. 

This lady brought her dog in with a "pelt"- his fur was so matted it came off in one piece. She said the dog had been stolen and was recently returned to her back yard. Well... a couple years later, she came in AGAIN, same dog, same story! 

This other lady kept asking for contradictory things. She asked, I kid you not, "Can you shave the fur, but leave it long?" We asked if she wanted us to use a 4 blade... no, she wanted it shaved AND long. Neve did figure out what she wanted. 

There was this guy whose wife wanted a labrador retriever puppy- I guess she wanted yellow. He said she wanted "a golden lab" and he went and got a golden retriever. She didn't like it, but they compromised and he brought the dog in to be shaved down like a lab once a month. 

Most of the others are just sad. 

As a trainer, 90% of the people I have in class are just awesome. They're preemtively trying to do the right thing. But you do get a few facepalm moments. 

For example: 

Customer complaint: My dog bites me when I hit him in the face. What can I do? 
Me: I'd start by not hitting him in the face. 

Customer complaint: My dog bites our daughter, but only when he's sleeping and she goes and picks him up by his front legs. I don't know what's going on. 

Customer complaint: My GSD is stupid. He won't sit. (Demonstrates.) 
Me: How did you try to teach him to sit? 
Customer: By saying sit. He KNOWS what we mean! Look at his face! Sit! Sit!

Customer: We just bought a wonderful purebred Malkie. Her breeder is working toward AKC registration for the breed! What are they like? 
Me: Well, with mixed breed dogs, it's hard to tell what they'll be like... 

Shiloh shepherd WOLVES??

Dear God, Tina Barber is surely spinning in her grave! They sound like the EXACT opposite of everything she worked so hard to accomplish!

http://www.shilohshepherds.info/issrIllustratedBreedStandard.htm 

wtf stories abound.....let the puppy run around the house,if he poops or wee wees on the floor,stick his nose in it and beat him with a rolled up newspaper....bet that works like a charm. or let the pup run around the back yard,if he starts digging or destroying lawn furniture,barking nonstop of jumps on you with muddy paws when you came out the door to tell him to "SHUT UP"....just ruined your new dress or suit...break out the "rolled-up" newspaper and issue up a beat down,surely that'll work!call same pup to you while he's destroying your yard and lawn furniture,when he doesn't respond to you "recall" command,you can offically deem that puppy"STUPID" and "UNTRAINABLE"! or,call him to you and when he comes in for a perfectly happy recall,grab him by the collar and break out your newspaper..issue up the usual beatdown.....i can assure you this pups next car ride will be to the dog pound...awaiting his fate....lets say"PIZZA OVEN".oddly enough i hear these stories weekly....or how about an owner proudly walking his nervy,fat,poorly pigmented GSD pup,proclaiming his pup's grandsire in an "american champion" and he's gonna sire many "police and service dogs"...he should get to be 150 lbs like his fat,nervy sire....don't get me wrong,i never fault a pup for being born,but i can surely fault a careless breeder,driven by money to sell pups based on rediculas points (150 lb sire/dam)champion bloodlines 3,4,5 generations back and selling a backyard pup with false claims.

We have one of "those" people two houses over and right behind us.  The guy two houses down has this ugly ass fat MinPin.  Every time it gets away from him it comes into MY front yard and then pesters my dogs and has the nerve to growl at me.  I was very close to kicking off my property (literally) the last time it came by but then I realized the owner was standing right there, doing nothing!  I think it comes over because I train in my front yard and sometimes there are remnants of dog food or treats that I've dropped.  That last time I was going to walk out my door and put my agility jump away when I saw it ON my front step.  I went out and was going to leash it and take it home and it started snarling and growling at ME on MY front step!!!  That was when I wanted to drop-kick it back to its own yard (or let Nikon out the door) but the owner was standing there the whole time, calling to the dog and the dog was ignoring him.  The other times it has come over it has charged up to my dogs while they are crated in the back of my van in my driveway and charged up my driveway to the gate across.  My dogs almost busted the gate down that night and that mf-ing purse dog is just standing there baring its teeth.

Directly behind us is a young couple with a Rottweiler that is both dog and human aggressive.  OK no big deal, but the thing crawls behind their neighbor's garage so that it can shove it's fat face into my fence and instigate fights.  We have a 6' wood privacy fence but it's the kind where the planks are varied so there are tiny gaps.  It is always shoving its teeth through the fence trying to start a fight.  Sometimes I go back there and stare at it or jab at it with my poop scooper if the owner's aren't out and it growls at me and then runs off scared.  It's not really a big deal b/c my dogs rarely react to him anymore, but one day I hear all my dogs going apeshit outside.  I go out into the backyard and see this guy with his Rottweiler IN my driveway way up by the gate!  Just standing there in my driveway allowing his dog to hackle and charge at my gate with my dogs on the otherside.  I didn't even know what to say.  He said he figured if they got to "meet" each other they'd be "friends".  I just kind of rolled my eyes while my dogs were bouncing off the gate and almost knocking it over so he got the point and left.  My dogs have enough "friends", thanks!

My neighbor walks his fat, untrained, pissy attitude, weenie dog at least once a day around the neighborhood. For whatever reason, he likes to let her walk two houses from home before leashing her up, I guess to shit and piss on our lawns at will. Unfortunatly, the dog now makes a habit of checking my front porch for catfood. I already had to relocate my food bin because I caught her fat ass inside of it helping herself. Now she barks like a nut at my cat hanging out in his bed on his own porch and irritates the shit out of me at least once a day in the process with her shrill nervy barks. I think my neighbor is getting senile, but he might understand/"remeber" the fact that I don't think it's cute, once I get up the nerve to punt the dog off my porch in the coming days.

I also have an assclown down the road who walks his fat min pin to the same park I excersize my dogs at. 1) his whole purpose of being at the park is to let his dog shit there, no he doesn't pick it up, he is just one of several who do this daily. 2) he always has to irritate me by walking to the side I am on, like he is trying to tantalize my dog into going for his fat barking nervebag, so he can complain. 3) 3 yrs ago 1 of my dogs did break and go for his dog...she was a 4 month old GSD puppy I was working on searching for the ball with, who wanted to play with the little spastic min pin. Min Pin didn't wanna play, he acted like he did, at the end of his leash, running back and forth, barking his fool head off, until she came running to his barks. Then Min Pin decides to piss himself and burn ass back to daddy at the other end of his 30ft extenda leash. Owner flops to the ground on his knees surrounding his dog and punches my puppy in her head. As I ran to retrieve my puppy, I said "very nice sir. You a grown ass man, couldn't think to bend down and pick your 2lb dog up out of the way"? I understand my pup was offleash but why tempt a dog by going nearer when you have a whole friggin' park to shit your dog in? And what is with the horrible temperaments on toy dogs? Then again, what is with the retarded people who own them?

"Your shepherd is so beautiful and my boy needs a girlfriend, I wish you could see him."
"Does your shepherd have a title?"
"Yes, he has a AKC title"
"What is the title in, Obedience, Agility, Rally, Schutzhund, Tharapy?"
"Oh, he's not trained, he has a AKC title"
"Have his hips and elbows been certified?"
"Yes, the AKC has certified his hips"
"Really, the AKC certified your dogs hips are you sure it wasn't the OFA?"
"It was the AKC, I'm sure of it, what's the OFA?
"Your girl is so well behaved, how did you do that?"
"Its called trainng, we're late."
"Here's my business card, when she comes into heat call me and we can give my boy a thrill."
"What are your requirements prior to breeding?"
"I don't have any, just bring her over."
"Woman, I wouldn't breed this bitch to your dog if it was the last dog on earth!"

I gave her back her business card and we got away from her as quickly as possible.

LOL 4Pack, sounds like I'm not alone!

At our previous house, we used to walk by a house that had one of those mini weenie dogs and I would come FLYING out of wherever it was that it lied in wait and attack anything that moved.  One time it went after me and my dogs right then my neighbor ran by (she was a runner) and it bit her ankles!

One cat is a pansy, the other kicks the dogs ass. I'm just sorry the pansy is the one always on the porch.

Doing rescue I have had more than my share of WTF moments!  Like the time a woman came into one of our adoption events and asked me if I ever rescued Standard Poodles - I assumed she wanted one and told her that yes I do get them in on occasion.  Next thing I know she is back with two horridly matted Standards - she said well here they are and can I have the leashes back.  These guys were wonderful and once they were groomed were beautiful.  Or the so called breeder who gifted me with an entire litter of Standard Poodle puppies - totally unsocialized - no grooming, no vet care, all but one had double entropian and 4 of them had hernias. 
I swear I hate most people.