| I honestly don't know if other dogs do it. I haven't noticed it on any other breeds, but usually I only see them en mass at dog shows and this is not a gait that dogs are shown in (as you've seen it doesn't produce graceful movement!).
In the German standard, under gait, it says that the Rottweiler is a trotter (this means it is most comfortable at this gait). Any animal that trots will probably at some time or another fall into a pace.
When I first got my Rott, she was 2 years old and had been brought up at the kennel. She wasn't used to being taken for a walk and there were lots of things out there she'd never seen. In the first year I had her, she paced a lot. I noticed she fall into a pace if she was unsure about something she saw on the walk. She'd also pace at the end of the walk, probably because she was tired. She'd pace back and forth through the house when I was getting ready to take her for a walk. You can see why I know so much about pacing!
As she got in better shape and used to things in the big, bad world, the pacing disappeared. I probably haven't seen her pace in a year and a half now.  |