Not So Sure About This Idea

[sammy101]

i think its great that she's trying to get the Rottweilers good reputation back,its what they deserve.But i would sure be carefull since it already bit her.

[GreyhoundGirl]

I don't think it's a good idea. A good thought, maybe. But taking a ( potentially ) dangerous dog, with a history of violence isn't going to help anything. If the dog attacks (or makes aggresive motions, growling, snarling, ect. ) a elderly or patient, it won't *help their reputation. JMO.

[moosmom]

I agree with Greyhoundgirl. That dog is too much of a liability to the nursing home to allow it to become a therapy dog.

[LilacDragon]

Since we do not know the reason that her dog "mauled" her hand, I think that we really shouldn't judge the dog.

I was pretty badly bitten by a young male rottweiler. He had his foot stuck in the sliding mechanism of my mini van and was literally screaming in pain. In order to pull his foot out, I had to grab him and pull him up. I knew long before teeth hit skin that I was going to get the short end of that particular stick - my only decision at that point was where to take the bite.

[Catlady711]

This was the only other information I could find on this rottie.

Chopper

[LilacDragon]

One is led to wonder, if Chopper was a Golden Retriever or a Labrador that had accidently bitten it's owner and it had then gone through the training and passed - would we still think it was a bad idea?

[Ginger's Mom]

One is led to wonder, if Chopper was a Golden Retriever or a Labrador that had accidently bitten it's owner and it had then gone through the training and passed - would we still think it was a bad idea?

The answer to that, for me anyway, would definitely be "Yes." It is not the wisdom of training a rottweiller to be a therapy dog that people are questioning (I don't think), but the wisdom of taking a dog around somewhat fragile people that has already inflicted injury on it's owner. I know she says he accidentally bit her, but it also says he ripped tendons and broke several bones, so I wonder if it was really a quick one bite type of thing, or a more prolonged incident.