comments from the clueless - Page 2

I too have heard all the above countless times.  I used to get really annoyed about it now I just keep walking thinking to myself "whatever idiot".

I stuck my foot in my mouth one day and since never ask people if their dog is a mutt.  My neighbor up the road has a female GSD- very poorly bred obviously.  I really thought she was mixed because nothing about the dog would make you assume it's a purebred GSD.  The owner would see me walking my dogs and one day came out to comment on them with her dog right behind. As we were talking I asked her what her GSD was mixed with and she corrected me and said she was not a mix, but a pure bred with papers.  I felt bad that I may have insulted her and swore I'd never "assume" anything again. lol  I'm just glad she never asked me what I thought of her dog.

 I take atleast one of my dogs with me when i go any where or atleast try to take advantage of the chance to socialize them,  I was out at our local park with my black male Barron when this obvious intellect approched me and asked if that was a german shepherd  which I informed him he was he had asked me about the obedience i was doing and the commands I was using,after telling him that they were german and schutzhund commands, at that point he went itno a disertation on how in germany they only use the puppies in litters that show aggresion and kill the other weak puppies for that type of work thats why there were so few schutzhund dogs in germany...      

Q from clueless:  Why do you speak german to your dog?

A from GSD owner: It is a German Shepherd.

They buy it every time!!!

Im with Sueinc     "Oh I thought if you feed dogs raw meat it makes them vicious..".her vet told her that , she said , as I was checking out 20 packages of raw liver..

One of my favorite hobbies was sitting ring side and listening to the "brilliant" explanations that were offered by these instant geniuses,  "Oh that black dog... that's not a GERMAN SHEPHERD... the black ones are Belgiun's...  and the ones that aren't black and tan's are called Alsatians... they were all the same breed once, but now they're not!!" (one of my favorites)

I had some idiot neighbor insist that my 26', nearly 80 POUND bitch (V rated, KKL1, btw) was "too small". After finding out she was "not a puppy?!" he then asked me if she was purebred...  Don't get me started on what they have to say about my 60 pound female.

ocoey-  I like that response.  I have had people ask me "why do you use czech commands, is it so no one else can tell your do what to do?"  I said well, no actually my dog is like my husband he's the only one that will do what I tell him to do.

My favorite is: 

"German shepherds can herd sheep?"

Yes, that's why they're called German SHEPHERDS......

However, the clueless are not necessarily always wrong.  At an American specialty show, I was asked:

"Why do all these dogs look like they're carrying a load in their pants?"  (Sort of an "emperor has no clothes" moment).

Dash2

I really really love stuipif people at times

A few years back at one of the big box home improvment stores by me I saw this lady bring a toy breed into the store in a shopping cart.  So I put my old GSD jack into a shopping cart and took him into the store. He was really well behaved.  I got to the back of the store and this sales clerk tells me I cant have him in the store with me,  I point out the lady with the little dog,  The clerk tells me that is a lap dog.  I told the clerk I have a bigger lap.  

They accused me of being a smart ass..

Duh...

I was out walking the pup when a man came up and asked me the sex of the dog. I responded that he was a male. The man told me I was very lucky to have a male because they don't have hip problems, only female shepherds do.