# "Dog?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 10, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270 "2010-09-10T06:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/21 "2010-09-10T13:27:39Z")
I’ve actually gotten this call a few times, but with a woman’s voice. I don’t think I’ve ever heard their entire message but I think it’s something like “Do you own a small dog?” It’s some sort of a recording that gets cut off at the BEGINNING instead of the end. IIRC there’s nothing after the “small dog” question. I may have gotten it yesterday if it’s the call spam I’m thinking of…the caller ID says “Sherman TX” and the number is 903-813-8310. The first time I heard it I was sort of bummed to think that I missed an automated call about a lost dog (I have actually gotten a call like that from a real automated service for people who have lost dogs). But the second time I caught more of the message I realized they were asking about MY small dog - and nothing else. **panache45** I have a 330 area code FWIW. I assume you have 216, tho. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/22 "2010-09-10T13:28:42Z")
**qpw3141** ^No, we cool. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/23 "2010-09-10T13:38:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > **qpw3141** ^No, we cool. Did this blossom into anything further a la _When Harry Met Sally_? Not necessarily romantically, but it’d be a great story for the start of a beautiful friendship 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![qpw3141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/6bbea6/32.png) [@qpw3141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qpw3141)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/24 "2010-09-10T13:40:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > **qpw3141** ^No, we cool. Phew! That’s a relief. Apart from anything else, if you really had been a psycho you’d have missed the humour and I’d have been expecting a visit from a mod wielding the banhammer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/25 "2010-09-10T13:47:28Z")
I get this call all the time. My caller ID says it’s from P3OPLE RSPNZ. I googled the number and got [this](http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-208-758-0218/2) discussion. Somewhere, buried in that discussion, is the theory that it’s a marketing company that’s trying to determine when you’re home, so they call at different hours of the day. Who knows? Some sort of annoying telemarketing thing. I’ve never actually answered the call, so I’ve had a bunch of messages on my answering machine saying, “Small dog…” (it cuts off the beginning). My kids think this is hilarious…they have fits of laughter every time they hear it. We’re easily amused. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/26 "2010-09-10T13:57:44Z")
> [@qpw3141](#): > > I think it’s the poster who tried to take the P who needs to think things through a bit more. Woof? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/27 "2010-09-10T14:22:51Z")
No. Very large and bloodthirsty dog. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/28 "2010-09-10T14:41:34Z")
Maybe your phone number is one digit off from Duane Chapman’s. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/29 "2010-09-10T15:30:50Z")
Are you sure they aren’t saying “updog”? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/30 "2010-09-10T15:48:57Z")
You should reply “Burning your dog!” ---
**Author:** ![NOLA\_Cajun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea666f/32.png) [@NOLA\_Cajun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NOLA_Cajun)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/31 "2010-09-10T15:54:12Z")
I still don’t see how reporting it to the authorities as a harrassing call is out of the question. And I really don’t see why anyone would be scared to call the number back. They obviously already hav your number. As I said before, give me the number and I’ll call them and report back here. Weird things intrigue me and I suffer from no paranoia. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/32 "2010-09-10T15:59:30Z")
TPTB would shit, but it would be humorous if the OP posted the number so that we could all call and say, “woof”. ---
**Author:** ![TerpBE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@TerpBE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TerpBE)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/33 "2010-09-10T16:16:48Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > > [@DrFidelius](#): > > > > I may be showing my middle-agedness, but isn’t “Yo, dawg” a fairly common greeting amongst those young person attempting to display an “urban” persona? > > It is, but “small dog” doesn’t really fit with that interpretation so far as I know. I wonder if the OP heard him correctly. Something like “s’up dog?” could sound like “small dog?” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/34 "2010-09-10T16:18:18Z")
It’s hard to tell why they’re dogging your steps. They’re obviously barking up the wrong tree. If they’re up to something illegal you can report them and get them in the doghouse. It must be one sick puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/35 "2010-09-10T16:19:25Z")
He’s dyslexic and trying to get through to the other side? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/36 "2010-09-10T16:28:07Z")
So, uh… dog? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/37 "2010-09-10T16:43:06Z")
After ten days of this, he’s going to call and say, “Cat.” You: “What?” Him: “Orange you glad I didn’t say ‘Dog’?” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/38 "2010-09-10T16:44:59Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > It reminds me of that old “Twilight Zone” episode with the elderly woman who’s getting phone calls from her dead fiancé. [Night Call](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh0R-osj3rU) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/39 "2010-09-10T17:31:52Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > Are you sure they aren’t saying “updog”? What’s updog? ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270/40 "2010-09-10T17:33:24Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > > [@Fubaya](#): > > > > Are you sure they aren’t saying “updog”? > > What’s updog? Oh not much, what’s up with you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog/553270.md?page=3)