diff --git a/pylint_django/tests/input/func_noerror_foreign_key_in_non_django_class.py b/pylint_django/tests/input/func_noerror_foreign_key_in_non_django_class.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf54f520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pylint_django/tests/input/func_noerror_foreign_key_in_non_django_class.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+"""
+Checks that Pylint doesn't raise an error when a 'ForeignKey' appears in a
+non-django class
+
+The real case is described as follow:
+The project use tastypie and django.
+tastypie has a `ForeignKey` field which has the same name
+as django's `ForeignKey`.
+The issue is the lint trys resolving the `ForeignKey` for the
+tastypie `ForeignKey` which cause import error.
+"""
+# pylint: disable=missing-docstring
+from tastypie.resources import ModelResource
+from tastypie import fields
+from tastypie.fields import ForeignKey
+
+
+class MyTestResource(ModelResource): # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
+    field1 = ForeignKey('myapp.api.resource', 'xxx')
+    field2 = fields.ForeignKey('myapp.api.resource', 'xxx')
diff --git a/pylint_django/transforms/foreignkey.py b/pylint_django/transforms/foreignkey.py
index d16b47c7..27e5c89e 100644
--- a/pylint_django/transforms/foreignkey.py
+++ b/pylint_django/transforms/foreignkey.py
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ def is_foreignkey_in_class(node):
     if not isinstance(node.parent.parent, ClassDef):
         return False
 
+    # Make sure the outfit class is the subclass of django.db.models.Model
+    is_in_django_model_class = node_is_subclass(
+        node.parent.parent,
+        'django.db.models.base.Model',
+        '.Model'
+    )
+    if not is_in_django_model_class:
+        return False
+
     if isinstance(node.func, Attribute):
         attr = node.func.attrname
     elif isinstance(node.func, nodes.Name):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a5c1483b..a93ecd26 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     ],
     extras_require={
         'with_django': ['Django'],
-        'for_tests': ['django_tables2', 'factory-boy', 'coverage', 'pytest'],
+        'for_tests': ['django_tables2', 'factory-boy', 'coverage', 'pytest', 'django-tastypie'],
     },
     license='GPLv2',
     classifiers=[