ROTTWEILER SPECIFIC CHAT!

everything is welcome and i think rottweiler owners need to use this space a bit more please!

Hiya iv just noticed this space, has anyone notice stalking behaviour in rottweilers? not towards humans but suki stalks titch in the garden just like a lion then pounces and he runs off...... they take turns in doing it and really seem to enjoy it.

Rotties are also one of the most vocal dogs mine both "talk" when i tell them to do something they dont want to like sit before feeding or ly down after playing, it can be mistaken for growling but more often than not its there way of protesting. i find my two really funny when they do it its just like my sons.

vegas likes to stalk and pounce at especially when shes excited and running mad like a looney!

when she wants something she doesnt stop chatting, theres not much time when shes no talking about something. she is so funy when sshe does this! she is so commical
jibber jabbring all the time wwen shes awake, the only ime she shuts up is when shes sleeping

Scifer loves to talk especially when you give him fuss he rolls over and talks - people who don't know him are a bit like, oh is he growling, no I say he is talking to you - his lump going ten to a dozen!!

my 2 have strated snoreing the floor vibrates when it gets really loud!

vegas used to snore too, but only when she was curled up in ball, when she was laid out flat she didnt. it was well funny but very loud

does anyone know what age rotties stop growing?

Hi I think its around 18 months - 2 years. I could be wrong but pretty sure its around that. Its hard to imagine when they are 7/8 months old how big they will get!

i know suki has grown so much the past couple of months she is going to be much bigger than titch.

Your dogs are gorgeous! Alot of people tell me Cola has got bigger but I cant see it myself, I guess its because we are always around them.

must be, when i look at puppy pics of her i cant remember her being so small.

all dogs are fully grown by the time they are about 12-14 months old! at this age they are then classed as fully grown!

ok wont be long till suki stops growing then, titch must have stopped by now.

some dogs realy shoot up a others take there time! lol

Hi,

Small dogs mature at around 12 months, medium sized dogs around 18 months and large breed dogs they mature around 18-24 months, although they do all their growing height wise up to 18 months they will start to fill out up to 2 1/2 years and if you have a male you will notice the head will become broad around 2 to 2.5 years of age.

Rottweilers are usually late developers. My bitch is 6 this month and its only in the last 12 months I would consider her fully mature and 'finished'. Our male, Blue is 28 months old and he is nowhere near finished!! I would think he wont be fully mature until he is around 3-4 years old, perhaps even longer as he is a really big boy. The longer they take to mature the better it is for the larger breeds, gives the bones etc time to grow slowly to help prevent any problems they may be prone to. That is him in my avatar! The rotts usually have their full height by around 12 months of age, but the filling out of the chest and head can take a long time.

An uncastrated male rottie will not fully develop until approx 3/4 yrs old as Maddie has said above.

They get this final chest (sprung rib), neck and head growth at this age.

If castrated then they never really make full suze and also if they are full size and then castrated then they lose some bulk.


Bitches also will not fully develop until later.

my two have a bit more filing out to do then! lol

i dont think that titch needs feeding up that much he looks in good shape and vegas is a little young so does need a bit more on her but again she is only young.

she is starting to bulk up slowly now she is on fresh meat, its doing her the world of good, she loves puppy milk also that i have added to her diet, i dont want nher to put to much weight on but she deffinatly needs filling out a bit.

thats good to hear.

Vegas is doing brill she is growing nicely and although we have had a few hic ups with her not eating she is doing great now, i think it had something to do with gaining a new dog into the household and her feeling a bit left out, im glad to report she is doing very well now she is getting extra tcl and is loving every min of it!