A couple of years back I was walking into a restaurant with service dog when one lady shouted out loud enough to alert everyone in the place "Is that a blind dog?" As we walked past I calmly replied, "No ma'am, he can see just fine."

I've had an adult walk up to Jäger in a mall and started moving his hands around wildly single digit inches from his face while doing the three stooges woo-wooo-woo thing as loud as he could. Fortunately Jager thought the guy was as stupid as I did.

Or the people who allow their kids to come over and annoy my dog in stores and restaurants, then get nasty when I tell the child to stop annoying the dog. One time this lady and her hubby actually wanted to take me to task for not allowing their kid to play with my service dog in the store (and he was wearing his bright red service dog vest {purchased from Leerburg}). They finally got the message after I pointed out loud enough for people nearby to hear as well that "I didn't become disabled, spend a fortune obtaining and training my dog so he could be a roving entertainment system for your unruly spawn."

Hey Red, I'm in Az too.

Yeah I get kids running up and trying to poke or hit my chessy all the time. I'm very tempted to tell the parents their brats need to be on a leash, or even muzzled. One day I was sitting on a bench at the mall with Zar (my guide dog) lying at my feet, when a toddler ran up and literally threw himself on Zar. I had no time to stop him. Zar flinched, and the mother started yelling that my dog tried to attack her child. Then while she was screaming in my face, I just in time caught her kid as he tried to poke something in Zar's eye.

I love door to door salesmen. I always hold the dog by the collar and answer the door if I don't know who it is. This one guy gives me some BS story about being in a competition to overcome his fear of public speaking, eying the dog nervously the whole time. He's pulls out some paperwork and asks me to look at it. I say "If I let go of this dog to look at your paperwork, he's gonna start bitin'." The guy was down the steps and out of there before I finished saying the last word.

Another guy parked an *empty* white cargo van in front of my house and was nowhere to be found. A few minutes later, I see him walking up the street with a spray bottle and some paper. He yells "Can I have your dog?" WTF. The dog is sitting on the front steps next to me staring at the guy. He gets about 30 feet away and asks if the dog is friendly. I say "No, absolutely not." Then he asks if he can show me his special cleaner. I tell him I'm not interested, and he basically ran back to his van and left.

Here's the thing about the second one though... I don't think he was selling anything. I think he was casing the neighborhood. Everyone happened to be home. But it's very common for burglars to use solicitation as a cover, and use a large empty van to cart away their loot. If he was selling something, there should have at least been one box of it in the back of the van, and there was nothing when I looked through the window.

Among the stupidest things I've heard over the years are: is it true you have to get the dogs hooked on drugs? The all too familiar "Rockwilder". I had a person ask me if the black dog in the back of my vehicle was a "Lavatory Reciever". My all time favorite is: "Is that a K9 Dog?" My reply is always; "sort of has to be, don't ya think." Of course everyone has a bigger dog than the police. I couldn't tell you how many times someone has said; I have a dog just like that, only it's a lot bigger.

DFrost

Every time someone says Rockweiler I want to hit them with a rolled up newspaper!!

The stupidest thing I have heard about my dogs is still the lady who asked me if Yote, the husky, was part fox.

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Every time someone says Rockweiler I want to hit them with a rolled up newspaper!!

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That's it Connie, I'm going to need to borrow your gloves now!!!!

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Every time someone says Rockweiler I want to hit them with a rolled up newspaper!!

Yup, (with the exception of Connie) I feel the same. I also get really irritated when people say "Dovermin".

A couple of months ago, some guy and his son stopped my dog and me on the sidewalk (?!) to ask where I bought my Pitbull. When I tried to explain that he was a Doberman, the father wanted to know which of his parents was a Pitbull, and couldn't seem to accept that there was no Pitbull in him whatsoever.

My dog is lean and leggy, even for a Dobe. Nothing about him looks remotely like a Pitty. People are weird.

Rockweiler, jeez. It's Rock-walder.

Oddly enough I have been asked if Loki is a rock-weiler before.