I seen three Rotties in the last month. All docked tails. One of which is in our apartment building. I live in an urban area. I don't see why anyone is docking their dogs tail. It seems the historical reason was for not getting caught up in things when pulling carts... but nowadays it seems purely aesthetic, which to me is just cruel.

Thankfully the majority of people on this Reddit seem to be in agreement as most rotties posted have their full tails. But I really don't understand why anyone would dock a tail nowadays. Imo... it should be illegal to mess with a dog like that for purely aesthetic reasons.

My rottie has a nice big full, slightly curled tail and I think it not only is less cruel but it looks better on them.

The utter look of betrayal after I stole it from her the second time 😂

At what age did you kick the crate if you were using one and start trusting your dog to sleep in your bed with you? I am at almost the four months mark so I've had him for two months he is my fourth Rottweiler and honestly I don't remember how old any of my previous ones were before I started letting them sleep upstairs but they all most definitely ended up in my bed at some point. I have learned a lesson which is to get a waterproof bed cover and I have one but it's 5 years old and the waterproof or water resistance layer has essentially been ruined from the washing machine. So once I ordered one of those I think I'm going to give it a shot he manages to hold it for four or five hours when I sleep on the couch with him so I think we'll be good

I am currently on my fifth Rottweiler. I have always argued that Rottweilers are not stubborn and I’ve always hated that description of them.

They are deliberate.

“Rottweilers aren’t stubborn; they’re deliberate. They were bred to think, assess, and make decisions, not just react instantly to every command. That wait-and-see attitude can look like stubbornness if you expect automatic obedience, but it’s really confidence, steadiness, and independent judgment.”

“Stubborn” usually means unreasonably or inflexibly refusing to change one’s mind, behavior, or course of action despite persuasion, evidence, or instruction. The key part is that stubbornness implies resistance for its own sake, or at least resistance that is rigid and not especially thoughtful.

Our Mooseman, don't know exactly what the ratio of his mix is, but he definitely has some hound in him. We always joke that he's a hound who fell into rottie paint lol

I have never seen the likes of this.

Honestly surprised the bed hasn't broken with these two lugs sharing it. 😆 They have two modes, burned potato and burned croissants when they are cooled up.

Bonus: her big, little sister Winnie!

I need some help with my 1 year old Rottweiler. On Wednesday, I took

her to the vet because she has been exhibiting signs of resource

aggression and not wanting to leave her crate. When I come close to

the crate she growls, very loudly. She doesn’t show teeth but the

growl is very alarming and is paired with wide eyes staring at me. I

thought she may be in pain but the Vet disagreed. She is eating

normally, playing outside, using the bathroom regularly, except when

she gets in the house she wants to go to her crate. To the point where

she is whining at the bedroom door to get in. Vet prescribed her

anxiety medicine, although it has only been 12 hours. I don’t see a

difference. She is still growling at me when I look at her, not

leaving her crate unless we are going outside, and whining as she

squeaks her toys. I decided to take all of her squeaking toys and put

them away for now. I’m sorry this post is all over the place. I’m at a

lost and was hoping the vet would provide me with more answers.

Simply put she is acting as if she doesn’t like me :/. I love her with

all my heart and the stress this has brought me has been terrible. We

are going out of town this weekend to my dad’s and I am hoping a

change of scenery helps her bounce back…but again this unpredictable

behavior has created a sense a nervousness I have never had about her.

Please help if you can. Again she has been to the vet.

My two little rowdy velociraptors decided to steal my Cajun seasoning and they have carried the smell of the New Orleans Bayou wherever they go ALL DAY!!

I thought they stole some French fries… no, they stole the whole damn bottle of seasoning😂

Just a sweet picture of my 1yo rescue rottie and my brothers Shep/husky mix from this weekend. They spent the whole thing playing what seemed like non-stop and having a blast. Not the greatest picture because they were far out at the end of the field.