Rory posing, in pride of place, in this months Volkswagen Camper and Commercial magazine. What a poser Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
This is Indy. 8 months old and ‘just’ 40kg. She likes running away on the beach. Digging up the beach. Sitting on people. Hugs. Sitting on people whilst being hugged. She eats 1.5kg of raw meat a day and thus has the breath of a dinosaur and farts that can kill Covid stone dead. This is her with my brothers rescue rottie, Bosun. He was left a stray in Sheffield for 18 months, the dog, not my brother. She is already bigger than him and is behind bars as she kept jumping on him. Never considered this breed before but they are so very bright it’s amazing. She loves everyone and everything and is utterly fearless. They stop growing at 18 months, so god knows how big she’ll get.
I’ve been lucky enough to share my life with two Rottweilers. They are great dogs. I’d have another one again tomorrow. Because of their size you do need to work with them more when they are young, compared to other breeds, mainly cos they have absolutely no idea of their own size and strength, so it’s better to set a few behaviour rules now, for instance from an early age I never encouraged mine to jump up when they greeted me. Although I loved it and would mostly just lie down and let them jump all over me when I came home, I figured other visitors to my house might not be so keen. A much misunderstood breed. You can really give them a proper hug.
Do you feed her anything else but raw meat? Ours are all raw fed (prey diet, no veg or grain) and their breath is as sweet as roses. Farts are occasional but not life threatening!
You pay extra for that expression. BTW Baxter -aka Bogbrush - is 2 today. Yes, I cooked the beef, carrot and peas cupcake for him and ‘iced’ it with cheese.
I had a Sharpei prior to Indy....extremely head strong and very like a cat in being aloof.....but a properly wicked dog if you were the boss. Indy gets upset if she doesn’t get a hug, as you say though it has to be on your terms not hers. The only issue we have with her is she simply ignores other dogs giving her a warning...she wants to play with them whatever so we have to take her away if she gets too hyper. Lockdown has made socialising her more challenging, especially as we are in lockdown again now here. But they are a great breed, I’m very surprised tbh. My older brother takes in rescue rotts and each worship him, but can be a handful for everyone else. Bosun decided to guard my house from me the other day...I got the full works, growling, barking, hackles up etc. Daft old bugger, his arthritis means he simply can’t move quickly anymore thank god.
You make an interesting point about them all loving your brother. When I got my first one the breeder gave me a great bit of advice. She said that some breeds love everyone, like my Labrador who was a huge baby all his life, rot ties are different, they absolutely adore their pack, you are their world, there’s no need to teach a rotty to guard you or your family, they will do that out of love. But until they get to know you, you mean nothing to them and they will have little interest in you. So strangers are ignored and family is everything. My two would go absolutely mental with excitement whenever anyone they knew came to the house. Run off. Get toys. Play. Kiss. Cuddles. Soppy as a box of lights. Every time. But if a stranger came in they’d immediately sit next to me. They were never taught that. Natural protective instinct. I wouldn’t read too much into your girls over excitement. She’s a baby. She might be a 40kg baby but she doesn’t know that. Other dogs mean one thing. Play time. It’s good that she learns that other dogs are fun. It means when you walk her as an adult she’ll be chilled around them. I only ever lead walked mine near roads. Apart from that they just trotted around near me doing what they pleased. Despite what people think, most of the time in my experience rotties are too lazy to bother being aggressive.
She sits and watches anyone she doesn’t know on walks with that frown they have, she did that at 3 months. My brother lives on his own so his tend to only have him as family. My Sharpei ignored most people and hated other dogs, makes a nice change with this one just wants to play with all of them.
