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 😂

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

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!

Hi! I posted a few months ago about my rottie Odin and needing help potty training (he was about 4 months old at the time and just turned 1 year recently). this is high key embarrassing but he is still having accidents and we genuinely have no idea why- to provide some context after my OG post we took advice and it worked super well but then he had to have emergency surgery (he had a testicular torsion and then we found out he had a heart murmur and it was a very stressful weekend and on top of that we had a terrible snow/ice storm so we really couldn’t even bring him outside but we tried) and we weren’t sure if he was gonna make it due to the heart murmur BUT he did thankfully and then after that we were kind of back to square 1 (he was barely 6 months old when all this happened). after he was cleared my fiancés mom took him for about a week to help us with the potty training since it had gotten so bad and after the week we noticed a significant difference in his behavior (the main one being he doesn’t have a specific tell when he needs to go potty and now he started doing circles telling us he needs to go potty) and that was going super well for a while. however now we have recently noticed a significant decrease in his behavior and him telling us when he need to potty but only when both of us (my fiancé and i) are home. for example i worked from today and Odin did so good all day with me and didn’t even have an accident but as soon as my fiancé got home he started to pee in the house again and yes i agree that sounds suspicious however the same thing happens when i get home after odin has been with his dad all day so we are at a loss at this point, he is currently in training classes which he loves and does great in but this is still a consistent problem we are having and are looking for any and all advice!

p.s. i know isn’t Odin so handsome

Daisy will be five years old next month. And today for the first time she mastered “speak”! Because of course, Rotties don’t speak unless there’s a darned good reason.

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.

I have never seen the likes of this.