Has your cross-breed ever been mistaken for a pedigree dog? Discussions

I do a lot of dogs shows and on more than one ocassion recentely hanging around both rings as i have friends with small pedigree dogs, my boys been mistaken for a Black flat coated retriever, i wish lol, don't have that kind of money to spare has it ever happened to anyone else.

Good thread Teresa!

It hasn't happened to me but I bet it happens a lot to owners of Staff crosses - they just have quite a distinct look, and people tend to remember the older type.

yes....flea constantly gets called a sibe

is flea not a pure husky then?

lol no

when he stands next to one of my purebreeds u can see he isnt ;-)

do you know what he is crossed with?

his dad is a sibe,his mum is gsd,mal,sibe(very gsd like but piebald) = N.I

When Gelert was a pup people often mistook him for a purebred German shepherd. Happens less often now he's grown up and it's more obvious he's a mix.
Someone once stopped me when I was out with my old girl and asked if she was a smooth collie. This was my heffalump of a Lab x GSD, who couldn't have looked less like a smooth collie if she'd tried Normally though it was 'Is that a Rottweiler/Dobermann?', presumably just because she was large and black and tan.

Alfie has been mistaken for a Norfolk terrier before

Coco has been called a yorkie many times..

Nope, my mutts look like mutts, however people think Mouse and Boo (who are purebreds) are crossed with JRT's ???

Frankie my jinja ninja is mistaken for a Norfolk Terrier.

No x breed has been called a pbt!

Most people can see he's a cross but sometimes people think he's a pure border collie. I have had someone ask me if he was a Malamute once and someone who kept asking me about my spaniel :? he looks nothing like either!

No but my pedigree has been confused with a crossbreed ha ha! Wirehaired Vizsla so understandable, I got asked what mix she was.

My pedigree also gets confused with a cross (don't think anyone has heard of a buhund).. Quite funny listening to what people think she may be. Akita etc...

My pedigree get confused with crosses they either ask if they are puppy GSDs or if they are Collie cross GSD, I then have to explain they are Chodsky Pes I have only heard of 2 people knowing about the breed but they were foreigners
now I give up and just say a Czech herding breed

Although a few weeks ago one idiot asked what my GSD was crossed with as his GSDs head didnt look like mine so mine was a cross! I told him the truth his was crap breedng and had a collie head - narrow and long muzzle you couldnt even tell what sex it was by the head

No - but Shamus the Shorthaired Pointer is constantly being described as a cross - usually with a Rottweiler.
The one I liked best was a mum loftily telling her children that he was a Great Dane crossed with a Chocolate Labrador. I`m not sure she had a particularly firm grasp of genetics.

Shamus



And people have frequently asked if Daisy is crossed with `a Lassie dog.`

Kiki tends to throw people off because they assume Rottie but the tail throws them off - then they notice she's a bit more slight than a Rottie and with a longer snout. But sometimes if I just say I have a purebred and a cross, people assume Kiki i the purebred and Casper is the cross, I think lots of people don't realise GSDs come in white/longhaired/both!

our BC X bearded collie we had as a kid people used to think was a really old collie, because of her beard and wispy bits, she was only about 2 when she began to resemble this 15 year old BC!