Thanks To His Unique Appearance, This Little Dog Regularly Gets Mistaken For A Piglet During His Walks Outside
Ted was almost hairless when Devan Seaman adopted him, and even after his fur grew in, he still did not look like a typical dog. With his tiny frame, unusual face, and piglet-like tail, he tends to stop people in their tracks wherever he goes.
Seaman says the rescue first thought Ted was a Chinese Crested mix, but a DNA test later showed he is mostly Chihuahua and Mini Poodle, with a little Shih Tzu and a mix of other breeds. That only made his appearance more of a mystery, and it helps explain why strangers keep guessing wrong.
One walk was enough to turn that confusion into a very funny moment.
Ted always gets a reaction from people when he’s out, thanks to his unusual appearance.
When people meet Ted for the first time, they never know what to make of him. He’s such a strange, adorable little creature! They are always delighted by him, and they always want to know what breed he is. Everyone remarks on how cute he is and how human his eyes are!
During one of their usual walks, Seaman and Ted were stopped by a man who wanted to pet the dog. While he was playing with Ted, he was also talking to Seaman, and it didn’t take her long to realize that the man thought Ted was actually a pig! She thought it was so cute and didn’t correct him.
By the time he mentioned that his family also had a pig, we were almost completely past him, and I didn’t want to ruin his excitement at having seen a pig.
It’s a bit like Chowder the pig who was raised with five dogs and insists he’s one of them.
Seaman wasn't surprised by this mistake because it actually happens quite often.
It didn't surprise me at all, Seaman says. Ted honestly gets mistaken for a pig almost every day. People always ask if he's a pig or a possum. Or they'll ask, 'Is that a dog?' I think it's his little tail that confuses people, which definitely looks like an unfurled pig's tail.
People love to tell me what he looks like, which is never a dog. Most often, people think he resembles a pig, a possum, a werewolf, a lion, or a wizard.
Ted loves the attention he receives, but he also enjoys observing people. They are probably more interesting to him than he is to them.
He LOVES to know what’s going on, Seaman says. He’ll sit and watch out a window for hours if people might walk by. On our walks, he is constantly stopping to watch people coming in and out of places. He’s very nosy in the best way.
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