RG Rottweilers

08/05/2025

🚨 IMPORTANT NEWS from Dr. Will Falconer, DVM 🧬🐶
I’m sharing this urgent update from holistic vet Will Falconer, DVM, who just covered this in his newsletter — and it’s something every pet owner needs to know. ⚠️

👉 Merck has launched a new rabies vaccine called Nobivac NXT, now rolling out across North America.
It uses self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) technology, similar to what we saw with the Covid vaccines — but now in our animals. 🧪

💉 Claimed “benefits”:
• Only 0.5 ml dose
• No aluminum (adjuvants)
• No mercury (preservatives)

But what’s the catch?

⚠️ This lab-created RNA replicates inside the body.
Once injected, it produces rabies virus proteins that trigger the immune system — and this RNA can spread throughout the body, including vital organs and the brain. The long-term effects? Completely unknown.

🧬 No independent long-term safety studies
📄 No transparency
💊 Research conducted by Merck’s own Intervet — not peer-reviewed or publicly available

We’ve seen what can go wrong with fast-tracked RNA tech in humans. Now it’s being pushed onto our pets.

🐾 What you can do:
✅ Ask to see the vaccine label before ANY injection.
❌ If it says “Nobivac NXT,” say NO.
✅ Request the older “thimerosal-free” version instead.

❓Why the rush? Rabies isn’t a widespread crisis in the West. Let’s not gamble with our pets’ health.

📌 Summary: Until we have real, independent, long-term safety data, this RNA vaccine should not be blindly accepted. Let’s protect our animals with informed decisions.

🙏 Thank you Dr. Will Falconer, DVM for continuing to dig deep and speak out. I’m sharing this to help raise awareness.

07/20/2025

Preventing unwanted litters is a goal we all share—but it's time to rethink the surgical approach. Hysterectomies and vasectomies, which preserve hormonal balance, can safely be performed as early as 8 weeks of age, making dogs sterile without disrupting their natural hormones.

In this study, researchers looked at whether the age at which dogs were spayed or neutered, meaning how long they were exposed to their natural s*x hormones, affected how healthy they were in old age. They studied a group of long-lived pet dogs to learn what helps dogs live longer, healthier lives. Dogs with the fewest age-related health problems were considered the most “robust.”

The results showed that both male and female dogs who kept their hormones longer (i.e., were spayed or neutered later) were 3 to 10 times more likely to be healthy in old age compared to those altered earlier. Once hormone exposure and age were taken into account, there was no difference in old-age health between males and females.

This study highlights how important s*x hormones may be for staying healthy later in life and shows that early-life decisions—like when to spay or neuter—can have long-term effects on health.

07/03/2025

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06/30/2025

*Balanced Movement in the Dog*
One of the easiest ways to determine if a trot is overall balanced is to look for parallel lines formed by the diagonal opposite legs. Not only is this the ideal for most breeds in the conformation ring, but it's also desirable for a well-balanced performance dog.
[Many thanks to the author, credited beneath the diagrams, who has given permission to use her awesome material for education purposes. added by us]

04/22/2025

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03/08/2025

Perfect Shoot😍

02/14/2025

Awesome

Perfect Shoot😍

05/27/2024

How to measure the ratio's of the Rottweiler's head.

As never before, there was the recent attention for the ratio’s of the Rottweiler’s head. Social media were (and are) overcrowding with personal opinions and photo’s, some of which can only cause horror.

In the light of the announced adjustment of the FCI Breed standard and its consolidation of the ratio of the head to be “about 1 to 1.5” (= 40 % - 60 %) while all shorter muzzles (shorter than 40 %) are to be seen as faulty, it is important to return to my earlier posting on the manner of measuring the head’s proportion.


Many photo’s shown on social media prove indeed that measuring is not done correctly (and I am aware of the verb : “he who is without sin can throw the first stone”) and results are therefore not correct either.

The plexi-glass instrument we use to measure the head mentions a point “0” and from there it measures to the front and to the rear, or in other words it establishes two lengths, thus measuring the ratio of the facial region as limited to the muzzle (from the “0” forwards towards the nose) and the cranial length (from the “0” to the rear towards the occipital protuberance) but including the length of the stop.

Important is now where to place the “0”-point on the head. If we just place it where the stop starts, then this is only relevant if this point is located where it is supposed to be, between the edges of the eye sockets and not, as is the case for all too many dogs, deep behind the eye sockets and sometimes even at the end of a deep furrow that reaches far behind the edge of the eye sockets and at the bottom of a too steep and high forehead. Starting to measure at such point, deep behind the eye sockets, may establish a perfect ratio of 1/1.5, especially in case of a very steep stop (which will “shorten” the length measured to the rear starting at the “0”), while the muzzle is in reality much too short.

Placing the “0” point at the height where the muzzle ends, this is : where the brows or frontal bones (supercillary arches) surround the eyes or in other words placing the “0” next to the inner eye corner, is the only correct way to use the instrument and read the correct ratio.

This was discussed in the margin of the IFR-Meeting dd. 07 – 08 July in Switzerland and confirmed and demonstrated by Mr. Hellmann, breed warden of the ADRK.

And yes ... this will show the problem to be even more grave and widespread than we thought when reading the first results of structural measuring ... .

10/29/2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39288-y

09/21/2023

🐾Source ATS History Rottweiler

https://showsightmagazine.com/examining-rottweiler-s-bite-and-dentition/

08/17/2023

were originally bred to be "drover dogs". It's not often that we get to see purpose-bred dogs doing what they were bred to do so here's a great shot of "Gibbs" aka CH Wynstones Lone Ranger V Maplemor HSAsdc HSBd RATN RATO TT CGC CS CSt CI CIt, owned and loved by Pat Schneider Miller (Ch Hugo v h Falconsnest TD x CH Quickfire Calln All Divas V Maplemor CD BN RE) showing us his best cattle moves! WOW 😲

Find out more about the versatile Rottweiler in their Breed Magazine here: https://digital.showsightmagazine.com/view/55801/

07/08/2023