Some people know EVERYTHING! A little dog related rant.

[luvmychicknkids]

I didn't call anyone a stupid moron for not knowing all the possible colors of a Great Dane. My point was that he asked what he was and when I told him informed me I was wrong that he looked like something mixed with a harlequin dane. I am sure there are plenty of breeds I don't recognize but I would not argue with their owner over what they are.

 

[cafarmgirl]

I feel your pain! I got the same thing from a relative when I got my rottie as a pup. This was a registered dog from a show family, saw all the dogs etc., etc. When he came to visit he insisted "that's not what rottweiler puppies look like"!! This from a person who has never owned a rottweiler or even met one in real life! And, hello, just what is one "supposed" to look like?!!

Some people are just so intelligent they insist on educating all those they meet.

Anyway here he is as an adult, ready to "help" irrigate. Hmmm, looks rottie to me!

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Well, cafarmgirl, my brother had a rottie about a million years ago and she didn't look EXACTLY like yours so he must be mixed! LOL I AM KIDDING!

He is a gorgeous (and yeah, very obvious rottie) boy!

 

[cafarmgirl]

luvmychicknkids, thanks and btw your dog looks very "dane" to me too! Love the natural ears. But it does amaze me the people who will ask and then basically tell you, by their response, that you must be a complete idiot! Oh well, I guess there's no hope for us poor, befuddled fools!

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Thanks.

I just assumed it was the ears at first since, even thought a LOT more people are leaving them natural, people still think of Danes with cropped ears. I like them floppy (they are so soft and sweet) and I like the fact that he didn't have to be chopped on for no reason.

 

[SarahBeth9394]

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You said you thought he was a moron (others said he was stupid) because he questioned whether yours was a dane because he had a dane once and your pup looked nothing like it. Whether it was because of the ears or the color I don't know. Like I said I wasn't there so I didn't hear his tone. The thought is a reasonable one. I would have been confused due to the danes I've seen and would have asked as well. I just hope that my confusion wouldn't be considered an argument so I would be thought of as a moron as well.

Let me add that me saying well call me a stupid moron was not completely serious. There was some tongue in cheek there but it got lost in the typing.

 

[SarahBeth9394]

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I totally agree with you on the ears. I had a few friends growing up who had danes and they didn't crop the ears. The danes with the cropped ears that I saw were on tv or in dog shows. You gotta love those floppy ears.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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You said you thought he was a moron (others said he was stupid) because he questioned whether yours was a dane because he had a dane once and your pup looked nothing like it. Whether it was because of the ears or the color I don't know. Like I said I wasn't there so I didn't hear his tone. The thought is a reasonable one. I would have been confused due to the danes I've seen and would have asked as well. I just hope that my confusion wouldn't be considered an argument so I would be thought of as a moron as well.

Let me add that me saying well call me a stupid moron was not completely serious. There was some tongue in cheek there but it got lost in the typing.

I understand. My point was that instead of saying "Oh, I have never seen that color" or whatever he said "No, I don't think so....." which to me makes one a bit moronic. It is one thing to ask and question, quite yet another to tell someone they are wrong when you just don't know.

ETA I hope none of my posts are sounding too hateful today. I am having strange computer issues and it is all I can do to even post right now.

 

[Haviris]

I don't think not knowing what breed a dog is or that they come in that color makes someone stupid or a moron, but there are people that come off that way, not by not knowing, but by other things like arguing about the breed because they don't believe they can be that color. Alot of people tell me they've never seen a white. I've never actually had anyone argue w/ me, although I've gotten the impression that some may have thought I'd been taken, but only when mine were puppies, most recognize them as danes, or ask and have no prob excepting the answer.

I'm generally very nice to everyone that wants to talk dogs w/ me, and it doesn't matter what they know or don't know. But I have encountered a few snotty people, generally it's the "my dog's bigger then your dog people" and even then I try to be polite.

There do seem to be alot of dane people that are really touchy and get really snotty about some of the everyday things dane owners hear "do you have a saddle for that thing?" "Wow, couldn't you find a big dog", etc, you understand. For them they may not see one everyday and think they are being clever, for dane owners they often hear these things several times a day. It comes w/ owning a dane, and if it's such a horrible experience they should have chosen a different breed. I don't care if it's the 100th time I've heard it that day, I always smile politely and joke back or nod at them, or whatever. Sometimes I worry these people give dane owners a bad name, but I promise we're mostly really nice people! I realize that is probably not the case in this situation, sounds like this guy was really in the wrong (I wonder if he really thinks that, maybe when he got home he did alittle reseach and now really feels silly, I know that's what I would have done, but there is a good chance he will always think he was right and nothing will change his mind).

I guess that's off topic, but all part of the joys of dane ownership!

Now 'I' did once ask a dane rescue what their puppies were mixed with! I could clearly see they were not pure danes, but the woman seemed really offended and informed me that they were all dane! I didn't argue, just told her they were really cute, I wasn't looking to upset anyone, if I'd known they thought they were pure dane I probably wouldn't have said anything, I did sort of wonder what their story was, but never found out.

 

[ravencreek]

I feel your pain on the idiots thinking your Dane isn't pure. I have a 4 time grand champion blue female. She is on the smaller side for a dane at 30inches but she is still a dane. I had a guy that worked at PetCo who raised/showed German Shepherds tell me that she wasn't pure that she was the wrong color. She HAD to be mixed with weimaraner. He even argued after I told him of her championships. Bringing another employee in on the convo. Neither of them has owned a dane. I wanted to smack them both. You tell me if she is a mix.... By the way she is a blue not black(which was also in the arguement since danes "DON'T come in blue"

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