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06-06-2008, 04:45 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Louisville, KY
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| Do people mistake your dog for another breed? Maybe this just happens to me because Itsy is a mix (yokie/poodle), but I take her out for walks all the time here in the city and people always stop me to pet her and ask if she is a schnauzer, or a shih tzu. She has been called a schnauzer by almost everyone we've seen and a shih tzu by a few others. I don't get it. To me, she looks more like a Yorkie than anything else. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me? |
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06-06-2008, 04:49 PM | #2 |
♥ Chip ♥ Smokey ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Leesburg
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| People ask me all the time if Smokey is a mix or if he's a Silky because he's bigger (13 lbs).
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06-06-2008, 04:54 PM | #3 |
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| With Rocky no, but with Bella people always ask if she's mixed since she has no hair..when I tell them she's purebred they ask if she's shaved.
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06-06-2008, 05:14 PM | #4 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: CA
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| i get pretty much all the time with Kuma he is about 9lb and people ask me if he is a schnauzer. lol |
06-06-2008, 05:17 PM | #5 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
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| i never get anyone asking if she is a different breed but they never know WHAT breed she is... i always get.. so what is she? lol... maybe its' because she has a short coat and still has her puppy colors. |
06-06-2008, 05:32 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lancaster, PA
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| Nobody has ever asked me what breed Rudy is. But, and I can't believe this, but some lady actually asked if Lucky, my Shih Tzu was a cat?
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06-06-2008, 05:37 PM | #7 |
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| No, do not ask what breed but they do say OH Seth is so big!!! He is about 12 pounds now.
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06-06-2008, 05:53 PM | #8 |
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| I sometimes get that comment too and Pao is 10 pounds.
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06-06-2008, 06:04 PM | #9 |
My hairy-legged girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: lompoc, ca.
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| We took the girls and went up to San Luis Obispo to a dog fair a couple months back and we had to park a couple blocks from the park and walk past some houses. An older man came out on his porch and ask if they were Schnauzers and we said they were Yorkies. On the way back to the car, the same man came running out of his house and kept saying Schnauzers, Schnauzers, Schnauzers. That was so mental! I have had other people ask if the girls were Silky's and some even ask what kind are they. |
06-06-2008, 06:10 PM | #10 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New York
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| My Yorkie's always confused with a greyhound cause he runs so fast with his tiny little feet! |
06-06-2008, 06:42 PM | #11 |
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| If you think it's bad with a Yorkie...try owning Biewers! |
06-06-2008, 06:45 PM | #12 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Manhattan Beach, CA
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| I think it's just that there are a LOT of people that don't know which breeds are which. People ask me if Teddi is a lot of things and the same with Cassie or they will just say "what kind of dog are they."
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06-06-2008, 10:12 PM | #13 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: TOronto, Canada
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| mickey's never been mistaken for breeds. but little kids do ask what kind of a dog mickey is lol i have once mistaken a silkie for a yorkie i kinda felt bad. i was walking my mickey and there was a girl around my age walking her silkie and the silkie looked like a yorkie (it didnt have a very long snout) so i was like omg what an adorable yorkie u've got there. and she's like oh no, she's a silkie. and i was like oh i'm sorry! though, my cousins dogs get mistaken a lot. my cousin's got a white terrier & a white maltese and people think they're mother & daughter. but then again, i'm in korea where people don't see many dogs outside. |
06-06-2008, 10:23 PM | #14 |
LuvMyFurbaby Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Miami
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| I always get asked if the Malts are white Yorkies?
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06-06-2008, 10:24 PM | #15 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: HOT, HOT, HOT AZ
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| Some people at a dog show thought my Skye Terrier was a Briard puppy!!! |
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