I would tell anyone that is planning on a getting a Rottweiler that training and socialization is a must . When I got Brandi I brought her to obiedience school & that was enough for our living situation at that time because it was just me & my boyfriend, no children. When I got pregnant we brought in a private trainer to work with us on some things she had not been taught in doggy school, like no furniture, place, no jumping up on us..etc. Now we have Maximus who is 6 months & we also have him in obiedence classes, it is just the basics, which I could have taught him from home but we figured that this would be a good for his socialization skills, our classes end next week & from here we are going to see a private trainer to work on more intense obiedience training, the same way we did with Brandi. I would like for Maximus to eventually get his CGC title.
I have never understood why people go out & purchase a dog & don't take into consideration that dogs need more than food & water to thrive, they need training, socialization, exercise.
Here is a perfect example of disaster in the making, a woman in my neighborhood has several children & she got 2 puppies ( small breed dogs), anyway these puppy's are not trained at all, I think they are about 7-8 months now, they don't even know sit..
well she saw me out with Maximus & was amazed at how well behaved & obiedient he was, she wanted to know what I was doing. I told her I have him in training school & I work him everyday. She said her dogs were wild, so I suggested she get them enrolled in some obiedence classes, her response " we don't have the money for that".
, now I am not a trainer but I figured maybe I could help her, being she does not have money for training school, so I offered to take some time out of my schedule to help her teach them the basics,she seemed interested but she has not contacted me yet. If people won't take the time to train thier dog and then something happens to someone or they just get tired of the dog making a mess or not listening to them and then the dog ends up in a shelter or worse dead, then who's fault is it ?? in my opinion THE OWNER!
