I was just a bit disappointed about him being injured. I will still do the PP training with him, his prey drive is ok so I think he will train on ok.. So what if he cant go over a 6 foot wall, as long as he knows that his job is to look after the family and home then that'll be pretty good too!!
Still nothing like a Rott for the intimidation factor....
Mark, I had a shepherd that had an ocd lesion on his knee. His was a very bad one according to the vet at the U of Minesota vet hospital. According to them the prognosis varies from case to case. It seemed that the dog would be somewhat stiff before exercise, ok during, as long as you didn't push too hard. (no exercise for six weeks after the surgury in our case.) The total bill for his surgury and x rays ect was $800.00 (better than I thought it would be.) He showed greatly reduced pain after the surgury, even befor he was healed. As I said his case was so bad that the vet said he wasn't too hopefull and we would have to wait and see. Unfortunatly he later developed hip displaysia (unrelated to the ocd) so it was hard to say what was causing what. He was greatly helped by the surgury even though his case was so bad. Good luck. I know how hard it is too see them in pain.
I went in to pay for gas...
"You don't need to lock the door with that dog in the car", he said, I smiled,...it wasn't the car I was worried about.
Just yesterday I booked him in for the operation (I'm insured luckily) and the vet tells me he has a 70/30 chance of being better until he contracts (inevitably I am told) arthritis after age 3-4.. I am crossing my fingers and he goes in on Tuesday!!
I will train him as a PP dog, he can still be tough and dirty if I need him to be!
I have a Rottie that is 3 yrs old, he stands about 3 ft tall and weighs in at 150lbs. He is abnormally huge!!!! The weird thing is that he is not fat, he is just huge. He is very proportionate and does not have the square head. His disposition is much like a lab, just larger. His mother and father were both pure bred rottie's but i made the mistake of not aquiring his papers when i bought him. I just wasn't interested in breeding him or showing him. Has anyone ever heard of a rottie being this large? I ran into a ex-coworker who has his brother, and they are nothing alike. His brother has a head the size of a watermelon and is the normal stout, but short rottie. Do I own a freak of nature or is this somewhat common?
T.P. its not that uncommon that puppies from the same pack but raised in different enviroments turn out being different sizes. As long as their basic breed colors and traits are near the same.
A 150lb Rottie use to be the quite common, back in the 85-90s 27" to 30" at the wither was about right. It seems that people are breeding back down to standards now.
The size of your dog is impressive if he carries it well. If he still can run and enjoy being a Rottie not a dog sloth, like some of the huge fo fo dogs, out there. The Rottie should have the look and character of an athelet, football player ready to roll, if he too big to want to fetch, play or run then he is too big.
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