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I had this experience with our dog Toby about three months back and I'm still puzzled by it. To set context, Toby is a Kerry Blue terrier.

We (my bf and I) were walking Toby through a town we live near to help him get used to noise and lots of people. As seems to be a normal thing, people came up to us and asked us about Toby or tell us about the Kerry Blues they had as children or just to ask us what he was. Anyways, this woman comes up to us and starts chatting with us and then she starts telling us 'that dog's dangerious', we had already told her how he's gentle with the cat and how he keeps on wanting to lick everyone by this stage. Toby was just sitting down between my bf and me, tongue lolling out when she said this and she said it about three times.

Can anyone explain why this person would keep on telling us that a relatively well behaved dog was dangerious? Toby was about four months old at the time. There was a man who spoke similarly. I'm confused as to why they said this because he didn't even try to jump on these people or anything.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

I think you managed to find the town's loony woman.

wouldn't worry about it

I'm not too worried it's just that a guy kept on the same way despite our dog behaving well (as in Toby didn't jump or try lick them or anything). He usually tries to lick/jump on new people he meets thus he was really well behaved for him, he was just sitting quietly.

Also, I was waiting outside a shop and someone inside said he bit them, but he couldn't have because I was looking at him when this other woman passed (about half a meter distance from us) and kept him on a tight leash. This person was a different person from the first woman and the man in a different place. I only heard of this because my bf was inside the shop and I asked him what the woman said when she pointed at Toby.

Am I a crazy magnet?

I guess a pic of the dog is in order.

show us this hellhound

I have a pit bull. It doesn't bother me a bit that some people are terrified of them out of ignorance.

Yeah, they are crazy. Tell them to go away or you will order your puppy to rip their throat out.

My guess is that they just both happened to be crazy or were just not dog people.

Some lady said my dog looked like she was going to eat her. My dog is in no way menacing, she wags her tail at everyone and still has puppy eyes despite being 15 and greying. Clearly she had no idea what she was talking about.

I don't know how to do that. I tried putting him as my profile pic but the picture is too big.

The Kerry Blue in this youtube video looks like Toby but we have Toby's face trimmed a bit more than they have their Kerry Blue's face trimmed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRp5d8xQRE

people think the same of dobermans, but they are friendly

My family had a Doberman when I was a child. She was so sweet and smart.

A child next door was upsetting me (as a child) and she came up behind the girl, nudged her hand so she'd reach out to stroke her, and then put her mouth gently around the hand and growled until I started to laugh. She was a really good dog. She wouldn't have hurt the girl, she just wanted me to stop crying. She'd also pull my Mum to me when I was crying sometimes.

That lady just sounds like she's either crazy, not a dog person, or has had a bad experience with a terrier. Kerry Blues aren't a really menacing looking breed, especially puppies so who knows.

We have a lady in my parent's neighbourhood who is convinced that my parent's lab is dangerous and bit her, when in reality she just got our lab confused with someone else's lab who is always out on an electric fence. Maybe that lady got your terrier confused with another?

I have a Doberman, they're so lovely. I think its in Ireland where Dobermans are required to wear muzzles in public. You just have to laugh at people's ignorance sometimes because Dobermans are really lovely dogs who are perhaps slightly more prone to aggression because of their strong guarding instinct, but honestly I've met lots of Dobermans and have never met one who was aggressive or unfriendly.

Thats because kerry Blues look like schnauzers which can pack a mean bite. I know a dog groomer's attendant that had to get 27 stitches from an attack by a miniture schnauzer. They have surprizingly powerful jaws. However a kerry blue is not a schnauzer.