"He's Friendly For A Rottie!"

[Sweet72947]

First I'll say hi to everyone b/c I'm new to this forum. Now on to my message:

I volunteer for a no-kill rescue shelter and one day I was walking our new rottie (he's an absolute doll, rather thin but we'll bulk him up!) and a potential adopter came up to us and he sat down right in front of her, no jumping up or anything (somebody obviously worked on obediance with this boy!) and started licking her when she went to pet him. The next thing she said was "Wow, he's friendly for a rottie!"

I wasn't sure what to say because I always take dogs by the individual dog's personality and not by the breed. I guess she hasn't met very many nice rotties in her time...or perhaps she has seen too many movies with rotties portrayed as vicious guard dogs!

Ha the worst thing a rottie ever did to me was cover me in rottie spit, the little drool monster!

[MIMUTTM0M]

I work for a humane society too! Hi!
And yes... I've experienced the same thing... people are suprised when they meet a well cared for Rott. Pretty sad.

[Toller_08]

I always get the same remark when I'm walking my current Rottie aswell as each of my past ones. It's pretty sad that people are surprised to see a nice Rottie, though I've never met any really mean ones.

[Babyblue5290]

There's a rottie at our shelter right now that's the same way. Very sweet and gentle and too skinny. Some people just don't realize each dog is different.

[bubbatd]

Everyone should read the " Carl " books !!!!

[mojozen]

Originally Posted by bubbatd

Everyone should read the " Carl " books !!!!

Grammy! I LOVE the Carl books! I stole them from my nephews and read them all ... then returned them of course. It was fun to read them to the kids too becasue then i could make up my own dialogue. Hee!

I like rotties. My boyfriend is scared of them because he was attacked by one as a teenager. The rottweiler was a poorly trained attack/guard dog for a drug house, and he was over there to say hi (he doesn't do drugs but was friends with the guy who lived there) and the rottie just leaped up for his throat. The owner got between my bf and the dog, so he got bit pretty bad... but my bf has been scared of them since.

I want to take the bf out and desensitize him to rottweilers, because I think they are wonderful animals myself... but he's not too keen on the idea.

[yoko]

lol desensitizing bfs too bad they are so hard to train, i tried to clicker train my but he caught on when i started giving him lots of cookies!!

j/k but why not take him to a place you know a friendly one is and show him how nice the dog is?

[Renee750il]

I used to help my Dad with his land surveying quite often. I never really worried when we were working around Rotties - or any other large dog for that matter . . . as long as there weren't any little ones around to get the big ones cranked up!

I was leaned up against a fence on day, waiting for Dad to finish up some notes, and felt something warm on my shoulder and face. I turned my head very slowly and came face to face with a HUGE Rottie head resting on my shoulder, snuffling my ear

[bubbatd]

Mojo ... aren't the Carl illustrations wonderful !! I also like that they are picture stories...I feel so much more stimulating for a child as they can use their imagination more .

[Roxy's CD]

I've never met a mean rottie, ever. Every rottie I've met has been a big teddy bear and they LOVE kids!!!

It's the movies I think that make people think rotties are mean and vicious.