lovemyrottie

lol, love the pictures!

don't know what to do now!

ah, crap!

what a bloody idiot! god, people can shit me.

hearing all these stories is freaking me out! i think i'm going to let my boy run naked cause our fencing is quite secure except for maybe one fence that's a tad lower than the rest and it kind of worries me that once my boy gets older and his hormones start raging he might try jump it (that's if all those stories of dogs jumping fences to search for females in heat is true?) and i'm not sure what kind of jumpers rotties are just yet since he's my first

artemis!

lol, my 6 month old gets the same! i hate it cause it ends up wherever he lays down

i'm also considering getting my rottie a sister sometime in the near future but does anyone know what age gap between the two would be the most suitable (for those of you who own more than one dog)? i don't want to buy one just yet maybe in a year or so until my current one's well trained and matured but i'm curious whether such a huge age gap (a year or more) will be a problem?

what things other than fences can cause a hanging hazard?

now i'm getting paranoid...

okay, so caliber's actually 6 months not 7 months. i'm so bad with numbers

a 7 month old rottie and i'd love to buy him a rottie sister eventually! i'd never own a different breed after owning a rottie :D

lmao, love it! so freaking cute :D

lol, that's pretty cool. luckily your dog didn't eat it! i just googled the bacteria but no glowing chickens came up

oh okay, as long as i know how to measure him in the future! thank you

cheers, nekhbet! how do i measure the height at the withers? is it from the withers to the ground or?

yeah, me neither. well, thanks for taking your time responding to my questions! appreciate it.

that's cool, i'm really tiny so it'll be better for me anyway! what bloodlines do the rotties with those huge, wide heads consist of? cause i forgot to mention that mine has a slight overbite and my past vet told me (this was when he was much younger) that his head's not as wide as it should be due to it but then i've seen adult rotties with overbites and huge, wide heads so i wonder if what she says is true and whether it'll play a part in the size of his head.

i just had a look at his parents' pedigree papers tonight and they both have mostly german, and american bloodlines.

okay, done! posted it on there with a few pics too. and how old is your girl?

i love my boy to death and i'll love him no matter what size he grows up to be so it doesn't really bother me! i only questioned it to see whether it's normal but each and every dog is different in a way and it's what makes them that much more special. i'll post it on the rottie thread anyway, see what other rottie owners think! appreciate each and every one of your comments, thanks!

thanks buddy1, that's exactly what my vet told me aswell so i'm always monitoring his weight by looking at him etc. and as i said earlier on he's definately very well proportioned and lean so i'll definately keep it that way!

ososwift, sadly i'm not in contact with his breeder anymore (which i'm bummed about) and i'm not really sure about the maturity in his bloodlines. and thanks clyde, he's definately a healthy boy and i just upped his food this morning but he didn't even eat it all, i'll stick to a cup more anyway. i don't mind him being on the smaller side of the scales anyway, it's probably even better for me considering how tiny i am! plus, the slower they grow the better it probably is on their bones too. yeah, everyday i hear of someone's "huge" rottie etc. but then i remember one rottie owner saying to me a while ago, the bigger the dog the shorter their life will probably be. anyway, thanks for your input! nekhbet, i wasn't comparing him to adult dogs but his age rotties that i've seen around or know of. i know they grow for quite some time! cheers everyone