Misgendered a dog.....🐕🐶🐾

[shellyleppard]

Slightly light hearted but seriously....met a lovely little poodle today. It was tied up outside a shop for quite a while. Made a fuss of it, checked the collar for a name. Digby ❤️ wearing a pink collar and little harness. Owner eventually came back and I complimented her on her lovely little girl. Turned out it was a boy...... why put it in a pink harness and collar!!! She was not very happy 😂😂😂

I know, not sure why they were looking, just really doubted me 😂

With things like collars and leads - and indeed pushchairs for toddlers - what if you originally had a female dog/child and followed the stereotype and then later have a male dog/child?

Would you really stop using a perfectly good collar or pushchair or whatever and buy a new one, just because it happens to be pink?!

Eh? Loads of male dogs have 'been done' and don't have balls anymore!

My dog is a cutie always mistaken for a bitch. He’s a neutered dog - even he doesn’t understand what he is.

Yeah, to me digby is a boy dog name. And many people automatically say dogs are male regardless. Like 'good boy' etc. And that cats are female!?

As long as you didn't say something like "ooh what a bitch"

I doubt Digby was personally offended.

I wouldn't assume 'Digby' was a boy, and pink is still more often used for girls/females. It doesn't matter at all, of course, but if you're the type of person to be offended if your dog is misgendered, surely you make life easier for everyone and choose blue, green, yellow, orange, red, black, white, or basically anything but pink. She was being very silly.

My dog has a pink collar and is always misgendered as a boy because she’s a border terrier, so it looks like she has a beard, so people assume she is a boy 😆 she’s never been upset by it though!

@AdaColeman 😂😂😂😂i only speak catanese 😂😂😂

My male labrador wore a pink collar for the first 2 years of his life. My 4 year old daughter chose it for him, and obviously I wasn't about to say no to her choice because "pink is for girls" 🙄 but I never got annoyed when everyone thought he was a girl 😂

People often gets ours wrong, she generally wears red and her name could be used for male or female I guess.
If someone says something like ‘oh he’s gorgeous, how old is he?’ I do tend to say ‘she’s around 3’ Most people apologise but I make light of it and say she identifies as a dog!

My obviously male staffordshire bull terrier used to rock a neon pink lead and turquoise collar.
I loved the combo against his fur.

So many men would take offence on behalf of the dog. No idea why their masculinity felt threatened by a dog lead but there we go.

I do find this whole situation, OP and the owner a bit bizarre placing sexist gender norms on animals.

No, @Mochudubh . My girl is considerably larger than a GSD, hence everyone assuming she's male. Because apparently all ginormous dogs are male 😏

I’ve just been away with family and spent a week misgendering a relative's new puppy who they've given a v feminine name for a male dog

Not a fuck would I give. Forget.

People always assume my dog is a boy, even going so far as to check she hasn’t got balls because they don’t believe me!

Maybe Digby is non-binary.

Seriously, unless you have a look round the back it's not always obvious. I like to think I'm good at guessing the sex of breeds I'm familiar with, Collies and GSDs from their faces but even I misgendered my neighbours' GSD which is built like a brick shithouse but turned out to be female.

A lot of people seem to default to male pronouns for dogs and female for cats for some reason, so my bitch is misgendered more often than not. Often I let it go but if it's someone I'm likely to meet again I just give a breezy "She's a her but thanks anyway".

Getting annoyed about it is nuts.

@CoubousAndTourmalet Are you my neighbour?

Our dog wears black collar, harness and lead. Everybody always assumes she's male because of her size.

People assume our male dog is a female quite frequently. I remember one woman being amazed when I corrected her, saying that he was far too pretty to be a boy dog! 😅

TBF, I always assume that schnauzers are male. With their eyebrows and moustache/beard combo, they always look like stern Victorian gentlemen to me.

If only you'd asked Digby what his pronouns were @shellyleppard, then you would have known! 🐩 🐩 🐩 😜 😜

Don't be daft. Pink can be worn by boys and men as well.

Well Digby is clearly a boys name.

Mine is a girl and is so pretty but sometimes gets called a boy, even when wearing a lilac harness. She also has a navy one but I just correct people.

I didn’t do it consciously, but my girl dogs have pink collars, and one of my boys has blue. The other boy dog has purple! Can’t remember why..

Another owner of a boy dog dressed in pink and purple (fashion choices are made by the 5 year old).
The 3 year old has taken to calling the whole family girls ‘come on girls’ so the poor pup has no chance.

I’d think Digby would be a boy regardless of the colour of the collar. One of my dogs has a purple collar and the other’s is orange. What are they? Dogs or bitches?