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 People think my red headed female gsd is a coyote because she is maskless.  At my vet, they insisted on putting "tan and black" as her colors because she is so light---they didn't want to write "black and tan."   I guess most people think all gsds are black and tan saddlebacks since most of the dogs on tv or in the movies are saddlebacks.  Most people recognize my two black and red blanketbacks as gsds though.

I like what sueincc said.  I always try to beat them with kindness.
 Like: " That is nice". Or always good one is : "I understand." or Johnny Carson's: "I did not know that."
 I am saying it even so I sometimes feel like to say: "As long as you are not foaming from the mouth."... 
Prager Hans
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I'm sure anyone here that's owned a black GSD have had people ask what kind of dog is it and when you tell them they disagree. I gave up educating and just thank them for informing me.

plain and simple...people are just DUMB.
I had a black female gsd and everytime I went into Petsmart, I heard people say, "lab and what mixed? What kind of dog is that?"

I used to get aggravated and start preaching about her, but now I have a good laugh. I stopped lecturing and started being plain silly with it. When someone said "lab and what mixed?" I would say "for $6000??!! I sure in the hell hope not!" and walk off.

If someone asked me what she was, I would put together some concoction of "pitbull, gsd, rott, doberman, and wolf" all in to one. People would start going "OH MY GOD!!" and run in the opposite direction. Hell I have a friend who bought a dog that was off of OFA parents, so she felt the right to harrass people in stores about if thier dog fwas OFA.(maybe she was after you haha.)

I feel your pain. I live in Lousy-ana (Louisiana) and there is honestly maybe 100 people who know about schutzhund. (probably more, but not much).

   This is a funny thread,,,lol....

           I like when people say , " Is your dog from Germany ? "....I say no...Then they tell me how they knew someone who had a REAL German Shepherd from Germany......lol...I just smile...


              Also, " Your dog is a little to thin, I can feel his ribs"....lol...
                               
                        or

               " Wow, he is really red....I never saw a red German Shepherd before..." I get proud....

There was a lady that came into the kennel to have a lesson on learning to use the ecollar with her over weight nerve bag of a GSD.  I was taking my male out to walk him and she was outside w/hers and she said "Oh my, what is that?  I replied w/he's a GSD and she said, "Really, it looks like a Dingo mixed w/something else."  All I could do was laugh at her and walk my dog away.  I always get the comments that they look like wolves and sometimes that my female looks like a coyote.  She's a tiny girl.  57 lbs.  When I was walking her one time there was a little girl and her father.  The little girl was probably about 7.  She asked, "Daddy is that a German Shepherd?  The fathers reply was, "no, that's not a German Shepherd, it's too small."  And again, just today at Petsmart two women commented that he looked like a wolf and was skinny.  Happens all the time!

Powerhaus: Ah, I didn't mean double-dewclawed, I just meant he has one one each foot (a total of four). Sorry. I already knew about the double dewclawed from when I was looking up beaucerons. But thank you. :)

Here's a 'good' one, as in one that doesn't make you lose faith in humanity. I was out with my GSD, and a little boy told his mom (or dad, can't remember), "That dog is a canine!" He meant it as in a police dog, but I couldn't stop laughing.

 As sad/humerous as the publics comments and lack of knowledge can be sometimes, at one of the malls near here there was a Calender shop that had different calenders of dogs, horses, cars, etc etc.  Guess how one of the calenders spelled the GSD breed........German Shepard............. The woman who looked like she was from India went on to explain that many others are now buying the Belgian dogs calenders, and they are exactly the same as the German Shepherds.  Not totally sure what she meant, but seriously? A calender for sale with the breeds name spelled wrong.  90% of the public already thinks it's spelled Shepard.

I remember a long while back, I think 8 years ago...My sister brought a dog home who was a German Shepherd. They got him in the Wal Mart parking lot. This dog literally had 6 claws on each foot if you include the dew claws. The person who was giving the dogs away tried to say that's how the real German Shepherds in Germany are. They're all born with 6 toes he said. lol   

I do find it funny, interesting,good, and sad at the same time that children seem to know exactly what a German Shepherd is. Even if it's sable, black sable, black, black and tan, etc.  They know that's the dogs the police use.

 

I was out walking my GSD with my daughter one day and a lady  pushing a baby carriage passed me, She stopped, went across the street and told me I was foolish because I had a wolf as a pet and didnt I know that it was illegal and furthermore I should be reported to CPS because I had a child and a wolf in the same house.....

*edited to add* I said thanks for the tip and kept walking. I was shocked.

@gsdguy08, I had a Huski and I had a person argue me down that my dog had wolf in it and I just didn't know.  I just laughted and kept going. 

A lot of people see my GSD in public and think she's a  puppy because they compare her to their neighbor's friends cousin's oversized male.