You know what I don't get?

youhavenoidea · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: You know what I don't get?

When people come up to you and go:

"What kind of dog is that?"

And when you answer that it's a Weimaraner, they go:

"Oh I love those dogs!"

Shocked

Really. You love them so much you can't identify one?

Crazy *bum* people.

I don't know why it irks me, but it does. Maybe because I always have this fear that Slade's cuteness will make them run out and get an ill-bred mill puppy, who will be destined to a horrible life in the hands of someone who couldn't even appropriately identify a breed they "love", let alone educate themselves on its needs?

/ rant

weinyrhymer · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

I guess I usually assume that they just have trouble remembering the breed name, but it's managing to come out wrong. There are some breeds that I love the look of, but would have no idea what they're called - either because I've never looked it up, or just cannot remember ..

DoubleTrouble · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:

I think you should just start telling them, "He's a chihuahua" or "Slade is poodle" or some other breed he is obviously not. Laughing

Sure, you won't make any friends, but who needs friends when you have a weim?

RenaBella · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:22 am Post subject:

It can be hard to pronounce!
I still don't know if I'm pronouncing it right!

megthered · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:58 am Post subject:

I swear this is true Someone asked me today if Abby was a Border Collie!!!!!!! I was so amazed and I almost told him yes, this is the summer coat. What a maroon!!!

Deiota · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:15 am Post subject:

HERE, where I live, a little country called Portugal there are a few weims around.
I own Gandalf for more than a month now and there where only ONE person that approached me near home) telling me "Look a Weimaraner Puppy"!! I didn't even believe he actually knew the breed!
Then she explained her sister own a 1 yo weim, not trained in a house nearby. perhaps today I'll come and visit him, Shake is his name!
I must say I suspect Shake wasn't luck since their owners bought him to give his 4 yo kid as birthday present. they own a house and keep him on the backyard with their other dog!
So I guess this dog doesn't have their needed exercise! I suspect, according to the sister, he was bought from a walk to the mall!
"So cute.. I bet the kid will love him! He's grow.. look his paws!!! what a !hell.. we have a yard...!!" I hate this!!!
Deiota

Django · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:26 am Post subject:

A Weima-whater?

Seriously funny! I've heard some dooozies just in the past week alone!

"Oooo - what a nice looking chocolate lab" (huh?)

"Look honey, it's one of those blue heelers!" (not even close!)

"That chocolate lab sure is a neat color of grey." (yes, he's the rare "gun metal grey" lab)

"Is that a green dog??" (no genius, it's just the reflection of the grass on his shiny coat)

"Nice color of dog. Is he neutered?" (No - once he is, his coat will change. *bangs head on wall*)

LunaBrown · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:36 am Post subject:

I love it!

A couple months back at a NAVHDA training event, a couple guys and us decided that Luna was "one of them giant pointing chihuahuas"

Django · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:38 am Post subject:

I've started to tell people that he's a Tennessee Leg Hound.

(anyone who has seen Christmas Vacation will get that one) Wink

Deiota · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:45 am Post subject:

Yesterday I went to vet to chip Gandalf.
Waiting, approaches a lady and says "oh I miss my baby this little" They're so beautiful".
I say "hum?" Do you know the breed?
She says she owns a bitch with 1yo. I got convinced she knew weims and own one! Then she says "they're heath problem and they get huge". then adds "my bitch weights "150lbs"... I wonder which weim can weight that much!
Then she adds "this colour is not usual... "
Then she went to pick up a great dane!! hehehe
what a hell?!?!

Welches · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:00 am Post subject:

I was walking Lexi the other day and a neighbor stopped me and asked what she was. I told her she's a weim, but she's a blue weim. I started to explain that they are usually silver/grey but she cut me off and said "Oh yes, I already know all about the silver and red weims, but I had never seen a grey one ". Okay lady, I just told you she's blue. And Red? Sure... you know all about vislas, huh? Laughing

Weimwayz · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:22 am Post subject:

I think the 2 best things that our weims have been called is a Blue Doberman and a grey lab!!! Common people just ask us and we will be more than happy to tell you. Don't try to guess

kcos · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:25 am Post subject:

It still gets me when we get chocolate lab...and they are soooo possitive about it, like I'm going to change the breed of my dog to suit them. I told someone the other day...'they're Weimaraners".., he kept saying...'that's some kind of lab mix, right?'...No, Weimaraners, ,,,,,..
OH, lab-araners, is that it? ..noooo, Weim..a..raners... so I gave up. Confused

Next time...NO, THEY'RE POODLES. SHAVED POODLES. Very Happy

Welches · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:26 am Post subject:

Here's the thread from a few months ago where several posted what their weim had been mistaken for. It's pretty funny!

http://www.weimaraneraddict.com/discussion/what-s-your-weim-been-mistaken-for-vt8374.html?highlight=

weim2mom · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:41 am Post subject:

All I can say is AMEN!

I swear - everywhere we go... I do love the fact that everyone loves them. But the way people look at us, you'd think I had a purple dinosaur on a leash!

I heard people whispering at the park yesterday saying... "Wee-Winers, Weim-riders..." I wanted to yell WHY-MER-RINE-ERS!

Some lady in the vets last week said a similar thing to me... Oh, I love those dogs, do they usually stay that small? Chevy is 66lbs. She thought she was a great dane.

((shaking head))