Our next dog

[king2005]

Thank you a Rottie sounds great! Are they really reliable off leash??

If you train them properly YES! Rocky was great! He use to be a dog killer & with all our hard training, he enjoyed playing with dogs & NEVER strayed far from us. He hated going more then 30 feet away when playing with a nother dog, so we were bumped into quite often.

Think of a Rottie as a personal bodyguard. they don't stray far when properly trained Just make sure he's friendly casue if hes not I can't see you being allowed to enter him into any dog shows. So he should go to lots of dog parks as a pup & get to play with kids as a pup..

What our family did to prepare our puppy (Max was a lab, rottie, pitty mix), was he made pulling his fur, skin, paws, ears nose, tail all a big game (he was rewarded the whole time & fed treats as he held him & pulled on him).. So he was SOOO use to being touched all over, that when a 3yr old grabbed his shaft & tried to pull it off his body he didn't care.. it hurt him like a bugger, but he was sooo use to rough play & grewup with kids, he just ignored it & fell asleep.. If course we tried to get her to stop, but every now & then she'd grab him again! We think she liked his naked pink belly & since his shaft was dangly (duh lol) she was attracted to it (like when a dog wags its tail kids LOVE to pull it).. He was amazing with kids. He would take 1 of the girls toys & get her to chase him. Then she would take a toy & get him to chase her (he would stay 3 feet behind her trotting until she wanted to chase him again). Cuttest thing EVER!

Don't get me wrong Max wasn't all feefee like. He did have a VERY scary side to him when it was needed! He saved our house sooo many times! & he accidently saved me when it wasn't needed, but was praised, cause when I yelled stop he let go of dad right away
He didn't know it was dad & I didn't know that Max was sleeping when I yelled for help (its a game we always played & it was soo much fun, Max would bark & jump in the air licking dad & he would grab my pant legs & knock me off my feet hehe).. so ya, dad was ripped through the door & shaken like a ragdoll.. was so scary!! Not a drop of blood was lost & there were no teeth marks.. Just a partly disslocated shoulded & muscle brusing.

So training a guard dog is SOOOOO important to do it right. That recall or off or stop needs to be a fast & 100% reaction!! If the dog isn't trained right there may be no stopping it, to the point of it turning on you!! There is NO need to teach a dog to bit, it will do that on its own, its only the drop, stop & recall that the dog needs to obey 100%!! I used all those commands while playing tug of war with Max (I NEVER won, I always ended up on the floor being dragged hehe) & if I told him to stop, he would, if I told him to drop, he would! So PLEASE becareful if you want a guard/pet dog!!!!

[Lori Jordan]

Rotti's are very intelligent Dogs i had one he is passed now and he was great with anyone id trust him to babysit he was so layed back and eager to please Doberman's are also a sweet dog...My neighbor has 2 brown ones they are beautiful