| Re: House Rotti Vs Working Rotti
When I bought Asa I was told by the breeder and a few others that he would never be a dog that put up high numbers if he lived in side like a pet. His breeder only takes her dogs out to work they are kenneled all the time. They are not socialized and her male bit the vet take at 10 months leaving punctures wounds so bad, the vet refused to do the ACL surgery. She can't walk her dogs down the street and she won't even handle her own male in a Sieger show. This to me is what you get when you believe you must lock away your dog in order to create a true schutzhund dog. A Rottweiler is one of the worse breeds of dogs to be kenneled and seperated from the people they love.
If I have to play mind games with a dog in order for him to work I'm not interested. Either the drives are there and that dog can lay by my side while I type this and load into the truck and go to the field and work or he can't. Isolation does not create working dogs.
It's good to see someone as serious about schutzhund as Mick also believes a dog can and will work and live inside.  |