Puppy Rottweiler

suki1964

Mutter wrote: »

What I am picking up from Suki and Frugalista's posts, is that a prospective owner who does careful research, is more likely to be a responsible owner, than one who buys on a whim from a card in a shop window.

Indeed.

As other people post that certain groups are more likely to take certain dogs and certain groups are more likely to hand said dogs into rescue, I maintain that someone who really has put in the what can be months of research into finding the right pup for them, is less likely to be running into problems and giving the pup into rescue a few months down the line.

Kimberley

Hmm the price and age of this pup should ring alarm bells in your ears. Sorry but if people want to buy cheap pedigree dogs from adverts they see in shop windows without knowing where they came from then they have themselves to blame if anything happens in the future to this dog or someone else.

I just don't know what to say about cases like this anymore

orlao

Op, I wish your friend the best of luck with the rottie pup.

Regarding the rescue v breeder debate - when I went looking for a rottie, I had very specific requirements mainly due to my household. Whatever dog I got would have to fit in to 3 cats, 2 female JRTs and be trainable enough to be safe around large livestock and poultry. I looked for a year for a rescue for a young (under a year old but preferably under 6 months)that would be suitable but of course, those types of dogs are in high demand so I decided to go the breeder route. That was my choice - I could have waited and I'm sure that a dog would have become available as I rose through the waiting lists but because my cats (and one JRT) were aging into mid teens I wanted a new dog to come in while they still felt "strong" enough to put manners on it, so to speak.

I could have got an older dog and hoped for the best but I wasn't prepared to risk failing a rescue. In fact, all the reputable (breed) rescues that I dealt with also advised a young dog, especially after the homecheck!

Frugalista and Suki also make the very valid point that without responsible breeders there is the potential of losing the healthy gene pool that keeps a breed viable. While I have no problem with crossbreeds (designer or otherwise;)) I personally wouldn't want to go back to the days of looking at a 6 weeks old puppys paws to try and judge the size it would mature at. You are also relying on the breeder to be honest about the sire.....both size and temprement!

usernameisvalid

If this rottie is only 8 weeks old and already needing a new home, the chances are its been badly bred, either a back yard breeder or puppy farmer

Eight weeks old and it should only just be leaving its birth home

I personally wouldnt take the risk unless I was 100% sure I could devote a hell of a lot of time to it and if I had a household where no one else would be at risk - ie children, frail elderly.

Rotties are big powerful dogs. Well bred ones where the temperament has been proved down the generations make wonderful pets, this one you know nothing about and for an original price of £200, even if the dog came with KC papers - you really havent got good breeding lines there

But you are an adult, you have to decide

mrcol1000

Mutter wrote: »

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My concern with Staffies isn't their temperament with people, but how they react to other dogs whilst off the lead.
Though two have left a child fighting for his life a few days ago.

To be fair the police haven't released detials of the dogs that attacked the child in West Yorkshire. The neighbour assumed they were Staffs and no-one corrected or confirmed what she said. Apologies if
it has been confirmed they were Staffs. Regardless of the breed anyway the owner of the dogs has been arrested for drugs offences at the property and the dogs were kept chained up so I guess these dogs werent really pets but more for protection so its no wonder they attacked a poor child.
My Staff has been attacked twice by soft fluffy dogs and any dog can be aggressive not just Staffs. It just that when a Staff attacks another dog it can fill an empty space in a newspaper or local news better than a Yorkie or Westie doing it.

BonandDom

mrcol1000 wrote: »

My Staff has been attacked twice by soft fluffy dogs and any dog can be aggressive not just Staffs. It just that when a Staff attacks another dog it can fill an empty space in a newspaper or local news better than a Yorkie or Westie doing it.

Hear, hear:T

Both my rotty and my JRT have been attacked by a Yorkie, the rotty ran for his life with it hanging onto its jaws, the JRT fought back - I got bit by the Yorkie trying to seperate them.

Both incidents happened in my garden, when the Yorkie just strolled in and attacked. The "owner" just stood talking on his mobile phone the whole time not a bit concerned.

Yorkie did try it on with the border collie - just couldn't catch him:eek: