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Polarbear

Coon Rapids, MN

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09/17/2009 9:04 AM
We've been asked if Nova is a Brittany too. She's so fast and skinny people ask if she's a greyhound mix - all the time.

Splat

Illinois (Northern)

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09/17/2009 12:40 PM
So far I have only been asked by friends who have not seen him yet...they must not listen to what I tell them cuz they always think German Shepard then when they see him they say that's not a Shepard...and I say I know he's a GSP... One guy at my son's flag football practice ask us if we were gonna hunt with him....so I am not sure if he knew what he was, but he knew he was a hunting dog....

TMerkler

Murfreesboro, TN

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09/17/2009 1:05 PM
Tyler is always mistaken for a Dalmation or Blue Tick Hound. I guess it is because he is Black and White.

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dieterthegsp User is Offline

Cape Breton, NS, Canada

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09/17/2009 1:52 PM
retrievers are a lot more popular around my area...but there are quite a few people who know he is a gun dog..just not sure of the breed

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WiscoCooper User is Offline

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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09/17/2009 2:12 PM
Since Cooper's all liver we mainly get "Chocolate Lab." Very, very few people guess that he's a GSP. Sometimes we get Weim and Vizsla, which impresses me because at least they're on the right track. The best comment I've heard so far: "Why is your chocolate lab's tail so short?"

Robyn, David & Cooper

dnauer

Colorado Springs, CO

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09/17/2009 3:26 PM
Since we do a lot of tracking with an owner of a Liver Dalmation, we get a lot of "what an unusually marked dalmation" after they've met Sadie the liver dal -- they just assume our GSPs are liver dals too. I'd say Dalmation is the #1 mis-identified breed. I'd imagine if I had a solid liver GSP they'd confuse them with Chocolate Labs. Everyone correctly identifies my Standard Smooth Dachshund as a Dachshund! Dave

Dave in Colorado Voyager GSPs "If there are no dogs in heaven, when I die, I want to go where they went" -- Will Rogers

gsp-fan

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09/17/2009 5:12 PM
My GSP gets mistaken for a Dalmatian they want to know why we cut his tail. My EP people have said Pitbull - I guess because she is all white. My Bluetick they think is a GSP with a tail. No one mistakes my Bassett Hound. When we travel I also say we have a shorthair Pointer - made the mistake of saying German Shorthair and all they place heard was German and thought he was a killer dog. took me 15 minutes to explain and finally she asked her husband and I heard him yelling in the background IT'S A BIRDDOG WOMAN LOL

unowhoandwhy User is Offline

Middleofnowhere, NH

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09/18/2009 7:05 AM
Quite a few people can at least tell mine are some type of pointers, so I must live in a dog-educated area, which is very nice! My favorite mistake was a few weeks ago on a bike path along the Ashuelot River. In New Hampshire a lot of us Yankees say "ah" instead of "r" so a pointer would be a pointah and a setter would be a settah. This young couple was walking along with their baby in a stroller & got really excited about seeing my dogs. Stopped to pet them & the man turned to his wife & started talking about the German Point-Settahs just like the ones his uncle used to have... I nearly peed myself trying not to laugh at that one, all I could think of was little liver & white Christmas plants!

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C J Mystic River User is Offline

Upper Michigan

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09/18/2009 9:21 PM
It's always interesting to hear what people come up with when they see my dogs. So far they have been called pointers, vizslas and an occasional dalmation. I just smile, politely correct them and tell them about the breed.

Gatormom

St Paul, MN

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09/19/2009 2:53 PM
Kaiser (13 y.o. GSP) was a pup about the time the 101 Dalmation movie (with Glenn Close) was out, so most everyone, especially little children would ask if he was a Dalmation. We live near a large regionl park, with a highly used walking trail along a lake, and one time when Kaiser was a pup, a little boy said "Look mom, there's a baby lamb". Well I looked around and didn't see a lamb, then heard his mom say, "That' not a lamb, it's a dog", and I realized he was talking about Kaiser. With Gator (2 y.o. GSP), most everyone knows he's a shorthair, or else, they don't, and then they ask what he is. Banfield, where he went for his shots as a puppy, had his breed listed as a German Shorthaired Spaniel. (We don't go there anymore).

Barbara Kaiser (1996-2010) Gator I am simply thankful that least dogs exist, and I'm humbly aware of how much less a person I'd be - how less human, if they did not exist - Rick Bass

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