What breed has your dog been mistaken for?

Louburk · Post by **Louburk** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:52 pm

When I first got my GSP, the neighbor lady who is like 83 saw it and said. " well where did you get that ugly thing? Is that a stray?" I just faked a smile and walked away. It's 2 years later now and she thinks I taught a stray to do tricks (point).

Ranger351 · Post by **Ranger351** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:26 pm

My gsp gets called a bluetick almost daily when I take him out.

bigdaddy · Post by **bigdaddy** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:00 pm

Fun thread.

My Pointers get mistaken for a lot of things around here. The most common thing is GSP. When people ask me if they are German Shorthairs, I always smile and say " Nope. These are bird dogs."

I also hear springer spaniel, and dalmation. I had one guy tell me he had never seen a setter with short hair. Either way, I do get a lot of compliments on Fletcher. He is a beautiful dog.

jarbo03 · Post by **jarbo03** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:08 am

Have had many different comments and questions about my Griffon, such as thats the longest hair I have ever seen on a GSP. Have even had a guy ask if he was a Weim, not sure where they came from. I get a lot of "what the heck kind of dog is that?", I always like those. One of the best was last weekend while pheasant hunting, an old farmer asked me "What cross was a GSP bred with to give it that wiry hair and crazy looking beard, never seen anything like it?", at that point it is really hard to explain.

Post by **jcbuttry8** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 6:26 am

duckman wrote:
EddieF wrote:
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,
Silver lab. That sounds about right. People don't know so they just fabricate an entirely new breed.

I also like Wisenheimer...
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

So, someone help me out. How is it we now have silver labs. I have heard people say you can get a silver from two yellows. That has never happened before. How can it start now? I could understand if a lonely weim might have jumped a fence for a little companionship but not two yellows.

sometimes, when Kona is out, people asked me how I got a dalmation with so much black on her head. I used to tell them she is an EP now I just tell them I got lucky.

Joe

mcbosco · Post by **mcbosco** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:38 am

Many, but most often I am asked if he is an Irish Wolfhound. Last weekend an older Italian guy put his hand up and yelled 'ahhhhh Spina", so sometimes they get it right.

goldenpatch29 · Post by **goldenpatch29** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:18 am

hahaha....I have really enjoyed this one.....lol. I have a tri colored english setter and many times I have told the person right off that it was a English setter and they still ask, "what is it mixed with, a dalmation or something". It really gets under my skin and kinda makes me want to carry my papers for him, in my wallet at all times. haha... but I just grinn and take it in stride. Ha what can you do?

pointshootretrieve · Post by **pointshootretrieve** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:59 am

You can't even believe what people think my Pudelpointer is. I have only had him 6 months and he has been called a chocolate Lab, German Wirehair, griffon, GSP, etc. When I tell people he is a Pudelpointer the next comment is " oh another one of them expensive designer dogs " :roll: I usually follow up with a " yep since 1845"

mcbosco · Post by **mcbosco** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:24 am

pointshootretrieve wrote:You can't even believe what people think my Pudelpointer is. I have only had him 6 months and he has been called a chocolate Lab, German Wirehair, griffon, GSP, etc. When I tell people he is a Pudelpointer the next comment is " oh another one of them expensive designer dogs " :roll: I usually follow up with a " yep since 1845"

LOL I said the same thing once but the 1500's. Handsome pup by the way nice head, color and coat.

Bird Dog 67 · Post by **Bird Dog 67** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:25 am

CherrystoneWeims wrote:
I just love when people call my dogs Wimmerhooners, Wisenheimers, Weimerangers,

I've gotten a lot of Weimerwhatsits too

DonF · Post by **DonF** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:29 am

My old pointer, Otis< was always being called a Dalmation. Squirt and Bodie have been called Brittany's.

KwikIrish · Post by **KwikIrish** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:04 am

An Afghan

mcbosco · Post by **mcbosco** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:09 am

KwikIrish wrote:An Afghan

Holy cow someone couldn't identify an Irish Setter....you win the prize for the most outragous comment then.

KwikIrish · Post by **KwikIrish** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:19 am

I almost had to call in for an emergency dose of Prozac!

legallyblonde · Post by **legallyblonde** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:31 pm

I've always thought dog show people should be well-versed in breeds, but apparently not. I've had several show people call my black ticked GSP a bluetick without a tail. The WORST was a guy who was apprenticing to become a judge called my solid liver GSP a DOBERMAN. WOW. To my knowledge he is still not a judge, thank god.

I've honestly had my solid liver GSP mistaken more than my black GSP. He gets called a lab with no tail or a weim mix all the time. I also have an australian cattle dog--someone once asked me if she was a fox mix LOL!

Post by **Sharon** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:55 pm

Setters aren't very common here. The dogs ticking always has people calling them dalmatians (spots)

MO_GSP · Post by **MO_GSP** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:04 pm

i have got dalmation before but most people just ask and then about a month ago i was walking my gsp in a very nice neighborhood when two very well put together women were stretching before their run when one of them says "that's a german shorthaired pointer isn't it" i was almost speechless, then she went on to say she had a lab/gsp mix that was a great dog! meanwhile my gsp paid her no attention as he was locked up on a squirrel down the street

displaced_texan · Post by **displaced_texan** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:08 pm

I've got English Pointers, liver ticked and lemon, lots of markings...

Guesses-
Beagle
Walker
Dalmatian
Blue Heeler
Greyhound
Whippet
Chocolate Lab mix
Brittany
Setter
GSP (Actually pretty close)
Spaniel

I take them lots of places...

Munster · Post by **Munster** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:49 am

I have NO idea what you guys are talking about! My dogs NEVER get misidentified! Everyone ALWAYS know they are Small Munsterlanders

dlfl · Post by **dlfl** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:08 pm

How about a Boykin.
I get choc lab most of the time. One guy asked if he was a Boykin. The fellow had a female Boykin.

CherrystoneWeims · Post by **CherrystoneWeims** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:12 pm

buck wrote:
CherrystoneWeims wrote:
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
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.

My brother has Silver Labs and he swears that the AKC did DNA results on Silvers and found all dogs tested were purebred Labrador Retrievers, and that the rumor about being bred to Weims to create the silver color has been proved false. All I know is they sure are some pretty dogs.

AKC did not do DNA for breed. All they do is DNA to verify sire and dam on puppies.

CherrystoneWeims · Post by **CherrystoneWeims** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:26 pm

jcbuttry8 wrote:
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
So, someone help me out. How is it we now have silver labs. I have heard people say you can get a silver from two yellows. That has never happened before. How can it start now? I could understand if a lonely weim might have jumped a fence for a little companionship but not two yellows.

Joe

The easiest way would be to take a chocolate lab and breed it to a Grey Weim. Each one of those pups would carry the liver dilution gene (grey or lets say l) and also the liver gene (lets call that L)

The resulting pups would be Ll so would carry one of each gene but would be chocolate (liver) in color as l is recessive. You would breed several litters using multiple parents so the pups are not related.
You would then take pups from each litter and breed them to pups from the other litters.Some of those pups would end up being grey (ll) in color because they would carry two genes for grey. Some of the other pups would be chocolate and would not carry the grey (l) gene so they would be LL. Other pups would be grey carriers and would be Ll.

This is a very simplified explanation.

No you couldn't get a Grey dog from two yellows because yellows are yy genetically. But you can get yellows from two dogs who are black colored if each parent carries the yellow gene (By). There is a genetic test for color.

wad69 · Post by **wad69** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:46 pm

Having a PP it's been a little bit of everything. A Drahthaar, German Wirehair, Griffon, a mut and all the way to "what kind of lab is that?" It's becoming quite comical. My brother-in-law spent weeks telling fellow workers that I'm hunting with a Laberdoodle. I rather enjoyed straightening him out on that one.

Cajun Casey · Post by **Cajun Casey** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:02 am

Had my solid liver GSP running around at work today and a kid latched on to him and asked me if he was a "chocolate black Lab." I told him the dog was a German shorthaired pointer and the kid dragged him away to show his dad. I heard him say, "He's a German chocolate pointer."

Vonzeppelinkennels · Post by **Vonzeppelinkennels** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:33 am

Is that anything like a German Chocolate Cake ? That's funny we got new breeds every day.

GUNDOGS · Post by **GUNDOGS** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:17 am

people use to always ask us if jersey was a jack russel terrier or a beagle mix :roll: one day 2 ladies at petsmart asked what kind of dog she was and i said a shorthair and the one lady laughed and said "well i can see that but what kind of dog is it"

so then i said its a german shorthair pointer, shes a hunting dog and the other lady said

oh thats terrible to make that poor little dog hunt animals

she then bent down to pet jersey and said "aw you poor thing"

...ruth

Winchey · Post by **Winchey** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:40 am

I have been asked a few times if my Munster is a Duck Toller.

Red · Post by **Red** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:31 am

I get Dalmatian the most... :roll:

mcbosco · Post by **mcbosco** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 9:17 am

Just back from the morning game of a two day soccer tournament and someone asked me if he was "some kind of rare Schnauzer"

Deets · Post by **Deets** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:36 pm

When I run my EP at the local park I always get........."why didn't you dock your GSP's tail?" or " What a good looking german short hair" I even had someone dissagree with me when I said he was an english pointer. They said "no that is german short hair", as if I don't know what breed my own dog is.

Gertie · Post by **Gertie** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:49 pm

I've gotten lab/dalmatian, dalmatian, and springer spaniel and various combinations thereof. :roll:

jlp8cornell · Post by **jlp8cornell** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:56 am

A "ticked Coonhound", a Weim and a mutt

Bossman27 · Post by **Bossman27** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:03 pm

I usually just get "what kind of dog is that?" but sometimes they think he's a dalmatian.

stlgsp · Post by **stlgsp** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:42 pm

Was asked if my ticked male was a Dalmatian/Pit Bull mix. When I told her he was a German Shorthaired Pointer she said he wasn't pure bred. She volunteered at the shelter helped label the mixes so she knew all about different breeds. She pointed to his roan brother and said that one was a GSP. Had to tell her I was there when they were conceived and when they were born, they were definitely purebred and were litter mates.

outdoorman · Post by **outdoorman** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:57 pm

Your very right Steve, I have never found anyone that didn't know my setter was anything but a brd dog.

gsp3333 · Post by **gsp3333** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:18 am

It all makes sense now, I've been trying to teach my Dalmation to point birds. She was sold to me as a GSP. I'm gonna give that D@## breeder a call and give him a piece of my mind!

gspguy · Post by **gspguy** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:04 am

Dalmation

Ryman Gun Dog · Post by **Ryman Gun Dog** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:28 am

Where did you get that beautiful Dalmation

This is why city people should not be allowed in the Grouse woods

big steve46 · Post by **big steve46** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:10 am

Ryman Gun Dog wrote:Where did you get that beautiful Dalmation

This is why city people should not be allowed in the Grouse woods

It would have to be a city person to ask that dumb of a question!

Beautiful picture by the way.

lucky guy · Post by **lucky guy** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:03 am

natetnc wrote: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:

That's funny! I have the opposite - I'd guess about a third of the people that guess say brittany. I thing it's the color, they're just not used to seeing a setter without black on it.

Grange · Post by **Grange** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:18 am

Gertie wrote:I've gotten lab/dalmatian, dalmatian, and springer spaniel and various combinations thereof. :roll:

I've gotten that guess about my english setter once, but the person was just a little kid and my setter is predominantly white with black spots so I guess I can understand. She is a tri-color, but her tan fur isn't widespread and it's in small patches. Normally if there is a mistake my setter is guessed to be a springer spaniel. My lab who is is thin and doesn't have a blocky head is mistaken for either a mix or once in a while a black GSP. I think some people are not used to seeing a lab in shape.