In my profession, I've heard some crazy ones. Here are mine, whats yours?
A friend of mine actually thought that in Mexico there are wild packs of chihuahuas that were able to bring down horses. He truly believed this. I laughed for hours...
When I first met my husband, we argrued for months over the fact that he had a friend who was a "breeder" of pit bulls. This guy had told him he bred a special bloodline of pitbulls who had two rows of teeth, like a shark. I have had other people tell me this as well.
2007-02-01 07:25:09 · 16 answers · asked by cs 5 in Pets ➔ Dogs
Ok well the funniest(or stupidest depending on how you look at it) myth I have ever heard about dogs went like this..
My friends boyfriend had a female (unspayed) pitty breed dog, my friend (who was his girlfriend) had a neutered male mutt hound/shepherd etc dog. The male even though he was neutered was obsessed with the female in heat and kept mounting and tying with her... we let them because obviously he was shooting blanks, but one day just joking I said "Wouldn't it be crazy if he actually knocked her up somehow, the pups would be very odd looking but cute" then the female dogs owner said "He better not because then she will be ruined and wont be able to have purebred pitty pups" I was dumbfounded for a minute then I asked what he meant.. he said (and believed what he said) that if a purebred had mutt puppies from a non-purebred dog, then if he bred her with a pure male the pups would be mutts because of the previous mating. I started laughing hysterically and he really had no idea what I was laughing about.. so I tried to explain that genetically what he was saying was impossible and ridiculous. Just because a dog has puppies with one dog doesnt mean that the next litter with a different dog will somehow be mutts because of it. He honestly believed that somehow all other pups would look like the father of the first litter... I tried and tried to explain that it was impossible and that it would in no way affect her future litters if she mated with a mutt once and had mixed pups. But he seriously believed that somehow that DNA would stay in his dog and make her future pups mutts... ridiculous, stupid, funny whatever you call it its completely ignorant and I couldnt stop laughing and arguing with him to no avail..
2007-02-01 07:42:10 · answer #1 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have 4 pit bulls. The biggest myths I've heard so far were, "the jaws of a pit bull lock", and "the brain of a pit bull swells inside it's skull, which is why they 'turn' on their owners." I believe that one in particular was originally applied to Dobies. Funny how it completely "jumped" over to another breed. As far as the "locking jaws" myth, I've talked to several vets, and they all chuckle at that one too. Guess I'll add the one about them having "2 rows of teeth" to the list, too. lol. These backyard-fables crack me up, keep 'em coming! Idiots.
2007-02-01 08:13:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Scariest myth, the Pitbull and it's locking jaw.
2016-05-24 02:41:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That there is 2 types of rottweilers. German and American. The FCI and AKC standards for this breed are nearly identical. The only real difference is that in Germany, as well as all of Europe, it is illegal to crop or dock, so a German rott will have a full tail.
2007-02-01 08:27:20 · answer #4 · answered by scott3714 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the myth about ticks.....If you don't get the head out when you pull a tick off a dog, then the body of the tick will grow back! It is true though that you should get all of the tick out, but not because the body will grow back, but because it could cause an infection.
2007-02-01 08:08:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
(Yes dogs can look up - I have 2 hunting dogs that constantly look up for birds and squirrels. and my friends weimeriner follows airplanes while they are flying over head)
I heard this ridiculous bit about hot dogs curing dog intestinal worms! I know there's a lot of crap in hotdogs but COME ON! I think people are willing to believe just about anything.
2007-02-01 07:43:16 · answer #6 · answered by sillybuttmunky 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the best myth is that a dog MUST go into heat at least once before being fixed, by then you have risked puppies, behavioral issues that couldve been prevented and a messy house and unsavory suitors
2007-02-01 07:41:06 · answer #7 · answered by timberriot 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Funniest, yet stupidest,what makes it funny is some people actually believe it..... Doberman Pinschers brains grows, but their skull doesn't so this causes brain damage!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOO ignorant the some actually believe that!!!
2007-02-01 10:40:20 · answer #8 · answered by ® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stupidest dog myth - that all pitt bulls are dangerous and their owners aren't at fault at all.
We have a running joke in my family that hummingbirds migrate on the backs of ducks...after all, have you ever seen a herd of migrating hummingbirds?
2007-02-01 07:28:44 · answer #9 · answered by Smeather 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Am I seriously the first person to mention the myth that poodle mixes (or any dog, for that matter) are hypo-allergenic?
2007-02-01 07:56:41 · answer #10 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋