Rotties always cast as the bad guys :(

CAYLA said:
I have to sax the opposite, i get compliments about mine all the time, if i had a £1 for all the people coming to my house for a rescue n clapping eyes on my rottie and asking if she is a rescue and is she up for adoption i would be rich ha ha. to be honest none of mine would bat an eye if another dog jumped in the van ha ha.
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I bet people can tell yours is a Rottie though.

We actually had someone once call us irresponsible for having her off lead on a walk. By the time they came to say hello, she was on lead as we got to the gate, but they thought she was a black lab. Fund out she was half Rottie and said we shouldn't really let her off lead. We laughed and walked off.

She attracts lab lovers and then they don't like it. Rottie lovers can spot the Rottie in her a mile off....it's pretty hard not to with her build :-)
 
If a dog had done that to our eldest dog, it would have been lucky to get out again. Daisy is the nicest, most tolerant girl around unless a strange dog invades her personal space (out walking she just walks away, she doesn't do playing with strangers). But she would have taken them down... This is the small springer spaniel who took out a large dog fox last autumn, whilst heavily pregnant. If a child came up and poked and prodded she would sit and not make a murmur though!

I can't believe someone would have been stupid enough to let their dog get up in your dog's space like that. Poor girl.
 
_GG_ said:
I bet people can tell yours is a Rottie though.

We actually had someone once call us irresponsible for having her off lead on a walk. By the time they came to say hello, she was on lead as we got to the gate, but they thought she was a black lab. Fund out she was half Rottie and said we shouldn't really let her off lead. We laughed and walked off.

She attracts lab lovers and then they don't like it. Rottie lovers can spot the Rottie in her a mile off....it's pretty hard not to with her build :-)
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Funnily enough half the people who came in froze in sheer terror at the sight of her (then decided they loved her when they left) she is very cuddly and friendly and calm.
Also when I take a call for someone wanting a rescue dog I will say "what breeds would you not consider?" and in general its a staffy or a rottie":( then they come to my house and ask about my rottie:confused: and I say "but you said you would not consider a rottie" and they say "well we never knew they where like this";)
I have also had a comments about how well behaved she is outdoors and she is rarely on a lead, always at my side:)
Out of all the breeds I deal with (alot) I have to hand on heart say, rotties are definitely very special dogs (I doubt I would ever be without one now):)
 
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OMG!!
I wouldnt be impressed if a dog came and let itself in my car!! They should have been gushing with apologies not blaming your lovely dog, who sounds like he behaved perfectly!
I love rotties! Always wanted one... ONE day :D
I walk a staffie, a GSD and have walked a Rottie. All lovely dogs :)
 
Cala, Elsie is much like yours. When people take time to meet her they fall in love with her as she is just a soft, daft lump!

I had one lady sat on the floor stroking her for a good ten minutes, coo-ing over her, but when she asked what breed Elsie was and we replied a Rottie, she leapt away as if she had been scalded. Said she wouldn't have been stroking her if she had known :(

She is quite an aloof dog, doesn't go to people, waits for them to go to her and when they do she is straight down on her back, stump wagging furiously, waiting for her tummy to be tickled! Her bum is always waggling, my three year old nephew says he is going to save up all his money so he can buy her a tail to wag :D
 
Ah yes, those 'killer' dogs!

Mine was attacked by one of those tiny, tiny yorkies (it even had a ribbon on it's head) who jumped up, got a mouthful of throat and hung on. The Rottie just stood there wow wowing while the owner starting shrieking hysterically that her dog was being attacked and was going to be killed and refused to come near the m to remove her fluffy rat. I also had the 2 JRTs with me who were volunteering to fulfil her fears that the yorkie died but I managed to control them. When I finally managed to remove the yorkie - I couldn't hit it as hard as I wanted to in case I damaged it - and return it she was still shouting and crying that I had an illegal out of control dog,dangerous, he should be put down, that she was going to report me (she did!) and then the real fight started :D I had verbal lumps out of her, pointed out that not only was it my dog that was bleeding rather than hers but I had not only managed to control 3 dogs but also broke up the fight that her dog started singlehanded - who was it that had the problem dog?

I used to also love the two extremes when I was out with him...the people who preferred to shove their kids onto a road with moving traffic rather than pass the on lead Rott and even better those that felt a need to come up uninvited to tell you that the breed was always aggressive, dangerous yada yada. I used to give those types their 5 minutes of ranting time and then quietly point out that if the dog was half as bad as they claimed that they would be missing at least one limb by then, wouldn't they? :D

OP,

Look at it this way, there are numpties everywhere - Elsie proved, yet again that she is reliable even under pressure ( a dog jumping into her car is pressure). Stupid people will never take responsibility for their stupidity, will they? Just think how many people were sniggering and rolling their eyes at them while they claimed their dog was attacked especially since by it's rude health it obviously wasn't! Learn to laugh at these misguided fools and if you're sarky like me point out the error of their ways. If you're a nicer person than me, just say in carrying voice that there was only one dog out of control and it wasn't yours. :p
 
Ah yes, I've been walking my rottie (who is soft as .... and wouldn't hurt a rat dog) and people have come over and said aww lovely, what breed! fussing him. I tell them, they snatch their hand away and walk off! He doesn't understand, he just wants to love them! :D
Though on the other hand we have some people who love him and coo over him which he absolutely adores. Mind you, when he was less than a year old we were at a dog show and a snooty woman and her partner came past, looked at him and she proceeded to say to her man 'imagine allowing a dog like THAT at a place like THIS'! Erm...its a dog show?! :confused::confused:
You can imagine the looks we got when we met with other rottie owners and were stood talking surrounded by about four or five rotties :D I just love them, they are so soft and funny. And also think they're small enough to sit in your lap...
 
My Rottie is great with some people, not so much with others but a biscuit usually brings her around! She chased someone's dog one night, I called her back and she came straight away, my other dog (GSD x) was running around with a rock in his mouth (he had a rock obsession and wouldn't have dropped it if his life depended on it!), squeaking, as he does. I shouted an apology (she didn't get near the dog, just bounded off to play) and we went on our way. About ten minutes later, we were approached by the owner of the other dog, who started yelling that both my dogs had attacked his, that they'd ripped into it and they were dangerous. He reckoned my GSD x had had hold of his dog too-with a rock in his mouth? How? And that if he ever saw them again, he was going to take after them with a sledgehammer and if we tried to stop him, we'd get some of it too. He said my dogs had attacked his before-I'd never seen this bloke before in my life and even if they had, why not say something then? He was quite deranged and shouting threats. It was really scary. What were my dogs doing while this tirade was going on? Nothing. GSD x was still holding his rock and looking even more nervous than usual and Rottie, well she was sitting on my feet, trying to back away from this nutter. They didn't even bark.

I no longer let my dogs off for a run, anywhere. I'm too worried I'll meet another nutter. :(
 
Give me a nice rottie over one of those yappy snappy little mutts anyday :D

(slightly unrelated but I watched youve been framed other day and it was a video of a JRT (if i remember rightly) sat on a mans lap, snapping at him, the guy couldnt move with out being bitten and everyone was laughing on the show! if that were a big dog, they wouldnt laugh!!!!)
 
I've had idiots deliberately try to wind my dog up. Same when I had an old, crotchety Rottie cross. Rescue dog, had been dumped as an old dog. My guess is he'd bitten someone and the former owners had just abandoned him on the street. :( He was great, but a proper grumpy old man :D

The most vicious dog I've ever come across, was a working-bred cocker owned by a friend of my ex. She was a really pretty, small, golden cocker. Everyone wanted to say hi to the sweet little doggy. She suffered from rage syndrome, you got very little warning and she'd rip into anything in front of her. Even tried to chew her way through a window to get to someone! But she looked so sweet. :rolleyes:
 
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Gratuitous Rottie pic :D
 
I feel your pain..

Iv got a staffie that regularly gets called a pitbull by completely clueless dog owners :rolleyes: even if she was a pit that doesn't mean she's going to go for your throat...

Unfortunately people here use them as 'status Symbols' which gives the whole breed a bad name! My dog goes out of her way to avoid other dogs as she's nervy and is soft as anything with people...

People really need to look at the dog in front of them instead of the breed in general! Not all big dogs or terriers are big aggressive Brutes!
 
Jumping into people's boots is something I have to be careful with with mine, as he loves it, as a rottie x gsd,he's not a dog most people would want in their cars! When meeting my parents with their dogs to go for walks mine given half a chance will jump straight into theirs 2 seconds after jumping out of mine, bonkers!

After being at the dog boarders for a week whilst we were away, having demonstrated to her just how easily he can open all her doors, he now snoring in front if the fire, one very content puppy :)
 
Elsie does jump into any car that is open too, but has only happened at work or with friends. She nearly went on a road trip with friends a few weeks ago, OH was helping them load their van up and Elsie was wandering around. Just before they set off OH looked for Elsie, realised she was nowhere to be seen and managed to stop friends. Opened the van and Elsie was sat in the back excitedly looking forward to her journey!
 
Oh yes, on lead or suitably distracted, that said he does go on walkies from my parents car on occassion, so it's also his car a little bit :)
 
You have my sympathy, being a English Bull Terrier owner. He was playing on the beach with a springer last year, and he uncharactaristically rolled it over, the bloke went mental calling him vicious and said that Harry had bitten it, but he couldnt find where the blood was coming from, until I pointed out that Harry had flattened it because it had bit him on the nose and the blood was coming from him, and it was a sign of his good nature that his retaliation was just to knock his dog over!
 
Our horses seem to know they yappy gobby ones are not to be worried about - but the ones that slide up silently keeping low are in danger of a real kicking.

But I've had a cross breed thing go for him and he kicked it quite hard, not fatal, but it must have been sore for weeks. Owner and her husband were screaming at me, but I just told them that between us, I was the one who had my "dangerous out of control animal" on a lead :)

These folk always threaten to report it to the police - but then they've cooled down and realise that they are the ones in the wrong.
 
Most of them I've met are lovely, but my friend has one that she takes to shows with her- and I'm very wary of it. It's almost malicious. I was grooming for said friend and trying to fill up Haynets in the back of the lorry and the dog came and lay on the hay I'd pulled off right infront of the bale. I had to pull more off around him and and he got covered- but he wouldn't move and just lay and growled.

I suppose he was just territorial but I wouldn't trust him.

My old GSD however - I'd have put my life in that dogs paws, my mum used to joke shed be happier to have him babysit than any other person. I belonged to that dog and god help anyone who ever got too close. Including my own mum when I was a baby- my mum smacked me one day and he jumped up on her on the stairs and growled. He was scary as hell but a big softy. Unless he thought I was being threatened. He was one hell of a dog. R.I.P Sabre.
 
_GG_, I also own a lab x rottie and once I tell people what she is they leave her :-( she's the sweetest dog you could meet. Whereas, people always want to cuddle/fuss my mini schnauzer, who isa major grumpus! I adore her, but she is not a 'people' kind of dog.
 
Beausmate said:
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I'm going to be honest now, Rotts aren't really my dogs, but it's that almond eye, that look, that stare, that "Go on, I dare you" look. That's what I love about them.

For those of you who have gentle and polite Rotts, good for you, have you ever seen one in full flight? I have, and I was wearing a sleeve, and believe me, I wondered was what coming next. It was a near life changing moment, you should try it!! Character forming, that's what it was! :D:eek::eek:

I've seen some seriously useful Rotts, and not really wanted them. Again, in full flight and when they mean it, they are a sight to behold. ;)

Alec.
 
Give me 20 Rotties any day over small yappy snappy terrier types. I learned that as a Dog Warden. You know where you are with a Rottie. They are much maligned as are Staffies and other bull breeds and Dobies and GSDs. All are wonderful dogs in the right hands. It is my opinion that bad dogs are not born but made by bad humans. The most savage dog I ever met was a Golden Retriever. He was so savage that we had to put him down. Poor dog wasn't very old and someone had made him that way. When the vet put the needle in I hugged him to me before he left this world. I hoped that he knew a couple of minutes of love.

Don't worry about your Rottie OP, people are stupid and uninformed. Where are the pictures of this wonderful girl please?
 
I think a lot of dogs would have got quite territorial in this situation. 'their car' is often not much different to 'their back garden'
 
We have had several different breeds of dog over the years and by far the softest of them all was our rottie who we lost last November at the age of 11.

We got her as an 8 week old pup and introduced her to our 2 cocker spaniels one of which was very elderly , she used to love going out to play with him and then we would find them curled up together in the basket fast asleep. When our other cocker started to go a little senile she would put up with him barking at things that didnt exist , walking into her and stealing her food. She never once even rumbled at him not even the time she was laid out on the floor and he fell over her trying to walk across the room she just laid there whilst he picked himself up and clambered over her.

She looked the part of the lean mean killing machine but she was as soft as butter who loved nothing better than a tummy rub or sitting on your knee for a cuddle.
 
I always cross the road when I see a rottie...........

So that I am on the same side and can ask owner if ok to stroke, then give them a big fat cuddle!!!
I love them.
Even crossed the road one day on a hack so I could speak to the owner who had a young rottie, (5 months) she was concerned that the dog would bark at horse, but I told herthat horse was dog proof, and we had a lovely chat, and the dog just sat there nicely.
I am a big fan, they are beautiful dogs.
 
My Rottie was a prime example of the great well-being of the breed. He had a wonderful temperament, and we grew up together (I was 5 when we got him). He was a working dog, yet, he was such a family dog, (and had friends at all sizes!); therefore I hate it when they are cast as the 'bad' dog. Not one day we do not miss him, been without him for two years nearly, yet we love what he did and the minds he changed over in that time. The owner makes the dog, another reason why Pit-Balls and Staffordshire Terriers (and the many others) have 'bad' names, and they should be the ones for the blame, not the dog.

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Glad they came 3rd in the group at Crufts, yet would like to see them Top one day.
 
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