;) The first Rott I saw was owned by a 16 year old girl with a two minute attention span. The dog had apparently been very cute for the first week and then given free run of the house to do ...whatever. He ate the living room, ate the walls, and was very sway backed and fat (furniture is high calorie?). He was not house broken and of course never walked on a leash becuase, suprisingly, he pulled HARD!
The owner was a disaster, and her dog suffered. I thought the breed were potential wrecking machines.
This summer, having been without a dog for two years, I considerd getting another german shepherd (have always had GSDs) when a friend told me about a Dobie needing a home b/c owner was moving to Europe for 2 years. He backed out, found a way to keep his dog, but I had done the research and was thinking hhhmmmm, Dobie? A friend called an said her neighbor had a rott he had to find a home for but that he had turned several potential homes away b/c he didn't like their attitude. I read up ALOT after I set up a date to see the dog. The breed seemed right, but watching my girl play gently with a 3 year old and an elderly neighbor during the visit sold me forever on the breed:D :D .