Am I allowed?

[Teresa Ford]

Gerr..... That was so rude. Why do people think it is OK to say mean things !
Once I was taking a little rescue with a deformed jaw (due to previous abuse) to get a shot. He couldn't keep his tongue from sticking out. One rude person said, " Oh I hope that miserable looking thing isn't a Yorkie !" I was so shocked that I just stared at her. The office lady spoke up " Poor little fellow, he must be Larry, your new foster baby. What a sweet heart." I then glared at the rude person, who droped their eyes to the floor and wouldn't meet my eyes. Almost as annoying was the fact, they didn't apologize either ! So I just let it go, I reached for but, didn't have my water squirt bottle, the one I use to correct bad behavior ! The previous sentence is a joke.

[Draco]

Oh wow, what an awful person.
I had a Pom and he didn't resembled the show standard but looked more like a fox or an orangish wolf. I loved him and was so happy with his coat and got more comments that he looked cooler than the breed standard. I only go a few inquires of if he were purebred and he didn't look like other poms, to which I responded it's because he was super foxy lol. But none of the people were rude and agreed. =]

Draco still a bit young to determine what he'll be like as an adult, but if he did end up on the bigger side I hope I don't encounter too many people like this. Though I do live in LA, so it'd probably would happen. I'd be rude right back. I encounter quite a few rude people and most are quite easy to brush off and ignore, but I don't think I could let someone off with out at least a snide comment if they were negative towards my dog.

[yorkiemini]

You can't cure stupid

[Lou]

Yeah, its too bad that stupidity isn't painful. In my old age I have no problem with saying somthing back to people.

I would have just said (in a motherly scolding voice) "Oh don't be rude," Then I would say something about the vet or the weather etc.

I had a neighbor ask me why Skeeter and Adie don't look alike. LOL
I just said "They have different fathers."

[P-Nut Mom]

People can be so rude about dogs, but I just try to ignore it because I know how GORGEOUS my boy is. He's a teapot (10.5lbs) and his coat has stayed dark - apparently that confuses people (LOL). I'm in CA, too, but northern/Silicon Valley. Last year, we were at a car show near the beach and a gaggle of larger dog owners were pointing at P-Nut, asking what kind of dog he was. When I said "Yorkie," they all started talking about how he's NOT a yorkie, must be a mix, right in front of my entire family. Not that my family cared, but so many people are just numb these days -- no tact, no manners.

[Lap Princess]

Wow!

To rude woman: "Are you always a bitch, or are you just having a bad day?"

[KendraE]

Yeah.... I wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut!

[capt_noonie]

Since I've been working at my own business for close to ten years now, I always feel like I am forced to be nice, and the truth of it is, I'm really not that nice of a person to people I don't know, so it's really hard for me to be calm and nice to rude people in my shop.

BUT if I'm out and about, and I think I won't run into this person anytime soon, I usually will say something, but I don't go all out. I should. Once bf did it and it was so funny and it was like a weight lifted. If you are too nice a person to not say anything, it's just going to bug you later, as it seems like it is bugging you now. Believe me, it would bug me too, and stuff like this has happened to me before. I've even shed tears over it.

Now that I am getting older, I also feel like I can say things more than biting my tongue, but of course, only in response to a rude remark, I wouldn't go up to a stranger and say something rude like that out of the blue.

[joeyyy2010]

I think the bigger nose would have been better. :P

[msyorktown]

Oh Lord, why doesn't this stuff happen to me?? I would have told her a few things about herself that she probably didn't know..

[Lou]

Sometimes comments come across as rude when they weren't meant that way. Not in this case but I was going into Petsmart one day and this young couple was carrying in the tiniest little dog. Without thinking I said "OK, what is it?" They looked at me like they wanted to strangle me and the woman said it was a chi (never could spell that one out). They were gone before I had a chance to correct my offense. My next words were going to be that it was adorable. They will never know and probably classified me as one of those people who called their little darling a rat. To this day I feel bad about it. Maybe it would be best to give people a polite answer and them hammer them if the go on being an a$$.

[hiddenlady]

I have had so many people ask me if Trinket is a toy Yorkie or a regular one. I just reply all Yorkies are toys. How dare anyone to talk bad about my baby. I think I would have said something to that woman. I was going to say lady but psst.

[jeane]

I dont know if I could have kept my mouth shut

[cindersellie]

Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1

That is when you tell her you know "she is a very NEW Yorkie owner, or she would know that we Yorkie owners consider our babies to be almost from our own loins, and that there have been people KILLED for less serious offenses than the one she just so rudely uttered.....suggest maybe she needs to pull out her social etiquette manual and refresh her aging memory on "Things NOT to Say About a Strangers Child" lest you get the SNOT slapped out of you!"

*I just saw this post, had to add my 2 cents *

Seriously!! I'm glad you didn't slap her. I would've addressed the "micro-mini at 2.8 lbs" term she used. That's not a type of Yorkie. My Cinders is a whopping 2.4 lbs at 10 months and I have to correct people all the time about how she isn't a tea cup, mini, whatever the newest term of the day is. She is small, was probally the runt of her litter, and I go with that. The use of "micro-mini" shows the "lady" is clueless about Yorkies! Grats to you for showing her how a true lady should act when meeting another Yorkie and owner (with a big nose)!

[MyDearSam]

Originally Posted by Lap Princess

Wow!

To rude woman: "Are you always a bitch, or are you just having a bad day?"

FTW