My staffy has been mistaken for ...

After being asked if she’s a bulldog, today someone asked me if Nifty was a ... boxer !

Doh

Have to admit though, my Flo has on occasion been mistaken for a sloth

Oh god

Is that one of those minature boxers with an unboxerlike nose and short legs?

Nifty staffy wrote:After being asked if she’s a bulldog, today someone asked me if Nifty was a ... boxer !

Duh!!

LizP wrote:Is that one of those minature boxers with an unboxerlike nose and short legs?

Yeah, must be one of those with unboxerlike everything !

I was asked if Katy was a boxer as a pup, then a jrt which I could understand with her markings but the last comment I got was is she x pit!!! I mean can you see pit in her? People are so unbelievable in their ignorance

When lexi was a pup all she ever got was "oh what a cute Labrador, must be only 8 weeks eh?" This was when she was about 6 months hhahaha then she blew up i her head and people didnt know what the hell she was #firststaffinthetown

Yesterday and this afternoon, I got asked if Nifty is ... a bully
Ok, diet for doggie and owner !

It's not only guessing the wrong breed, because Katy is big & muscly people assume she is a boy even with a pink collar & lead!!!

Whoops indeed !
Nifty has purple harness and lead and I talk to her alot with “good girl” and the likes

I've had people say "it" when referring to hank.. Didn't go down well.

“it” ?! How utterly rude.

'it'??? If anyone with a child calls him 'it' I'd return the compliment. Is that your child, how old is it?

I might be stupid but staffies are short haired so you can see all the relevant bits needed to notice which sex they are!!! Even wearing pink they still get Katy wrong

Misty is always called he too. Drives me mad

I know, not only is he all intact and you can see it all he has a camo harness.. the woman who has Hank’s sister that lives by me calls her it whenever she is talking about her, makes me ever so sad

An old woman in a mobility scooter when mia was still alive after the audacity of almost running over her paws had the cheek is he alright? Had to prewarn before my dugs paws were destroyed( mia had a bright pink collar with glow in dark stars at the time) . I wasn't very polite when i said she should have an eye test before driving said mobility scooter (oops) not really as i had to put myself in front of scooter to stop mia being run over. Honestly people!!

Had the pitbull comments recently, mostly folk know he's a Staff though which is good, although, a few have thought he was a lab pup when we first got him and the change in body language upon correction was comical
oh well

Jenc wrote:It's not only guessing the wrong breed, because Katy is big & muscly people assume she is a boy even with a pink collar & lead!!!

That just reminded me, i had "lost" lexis pink harness and collar..was quite annoyed about it. Asked my mum and she had NOT seen them.

A few days ago i found them in a drawer in a room we never use that MUM and PUT them in broke my heart a little cause it made me miss her to much. But still...good memories.