Rottweiler lovers?

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When I was last active on the forum I had just gotten a Rottweiler puppy. He's grown into a gorgeous 3 year old, and we have so fallen for him and the breed that we rescued a female last year. ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1476559445.148803.jpg I'm curious if we have any other Rottie fans?
 

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That would be my son. After he came home from the service many years ago he got a rottweiler pup (and I wrote this story:
Mom, Will You Take My Turtles?

By Yvonne M. Gomez



Many years ago, my son bought a home of his own and started to accumulate his own pets. First of all he “rescued” (read bought) a female box turtle with puffy eyes that was being kept in the water turtle enclosure in a local pet store. Then another such box turtle, then a Gopherus agassizi that a co-worker’s father had run over with the disc in his vineyard….well, you get the idea.


Things went along smoothly for months. He built separate pens for each kind of turtle he had. He nursed them all back to health and he had a happy, healthy family of turtles and tortoises.


But then came the desire to get a rottweiller puppy. Big mistake! The puppy decided that all these little crawly, wiggly things in “his” backyard were just wonderful to chew on.


I doubt my son gave a second thought to which came first, the turtle or the pup. He had fallen in love with the pup, and the turtles just had to go! “Mom, will you take my turtles?”


I had a couple tortoises when I was first married, forty or fifty years ago, but I never really had an affinity for them. It was just something you had out in the backyard. But I had become a more sensitive person in my old age, and decided if I were to start caring for these animals, I needed to do some research and find out how they should be cared for…do it the right way. This was before computers…you know, the olden days! I bought every book I could find on the subject, some good – some bad – some in between. I was one of the first subscribers to Reptiles magazine. I started a turtle club in my city. And guess what? I discovered you can’t just have one or two turtles.


When people find out you like turtles, they bring you more. Or when you go to the pet store for cat food and see a different kind of turtle, you just have to buy it!


I’ve been in the “turtle business” for about 35 years now. I have reached the point where I realize I have to say “no” occasionally. I have stopped diversifying and have settled into keeping only a few different species. My whole property is covered with turtle and tortoise pens. There is no “front yard,” only tortoise pens. There is no “back yard,” only tortoise pens.


I recognized quite early on that there was a need for a turtle rescue in my city. At first I operated the rescue through the local turtle club, but now I’m totally on my own. I have a long list of people waiting to adopt, and I receive turtles and tortoises weekly. I keep them for a period of two weeks just to make sure there isn’t a previous owner looking for them. During this time I make sure the animal is eating and looks healthy.


When it’s time to find a home for my animals, I make an appointment and go look at the prospective owner’s habitat.


I try to place water turtles in a home where they can be outside in a pond, and I like for tortoises to have their own separate pen, not to be allowed to roam freely in the yard. The majority of the animals I receive have been lost & found. This means the previous home was not secure. Either a gate was left open or he dug out under the fence, or whatever. This is why I caution people to build him a separate pen.


I believe that each different type of turtle or tortoise needs it’s own enclosure, and I don’t adopt to people who plan on mixing species. I think that animals from different continents have different micro-organisms inside them that might prove harmful to other species.


This is a labor of love for me. I’m retired now, and spend all my free time with the turtles and tortoises. And, after all these years, I still have that first rottweiller chewed box turtle, and the disc scarred desert tortoise.


Clovis Turtle & Tortoise Rescue

Clovisturtlerescue.tripod.com

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Since then, he has never been without a Rottweiler. He's on his fourth. His wife has one also. His dog's favorite backyard toy is a standard sized auto tire.
 

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Oh my goodness!
My dogs and torts are never unsupervised. However, one day I had the dogs out with me, and was bringing my torts in for the evening. I had Tank the "mini sully" in my hand and Rio (our female rott) gently placed Oscar (Russian) at my feet, she thought she was helping! They pretty much ignore them when we are all out together now.
 

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Oh my goodness!
My dogs and torts are never unsupervised. However, one day I had the dogs out with me, and was bringing my torts in for the evening. I had Tank the "mini sully" in my hand and Rio (our female rott) gently placed Oscar (Russian) at my feet, she thought she was helping! They pretty much ignore them when we are all out together now.
I just got a dachshund ! My boyfriend wants a rottweiler but we wont be able to get one until we get a house. Max has met my doxie.. it went well. They wont be meeting very often though. Maybe once a week while im wiping Max dry from his soak.
 

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I just got a Daschund! Now I have 2..and 4 dogs total.
 

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I like the rotties! And weinerdogs too!


Yvonne, why didn't your son train the pup to leave the turtles alone? Or fence them off? So easy to do either...
 
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I love the breed.
A man's dog.
Just big enough to slightly scare the crap out of strangers and better than any burglar alarm.
I had one that was stolen years ago and was given a chihuahua as a replacement.
Go figure.
Oh geez
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Hands down the best dog I've was a Rott, if I ever move back to the country I will get another.
 

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I like the rotties! And weinerdogs too!


Yvonne, why didn't your son train the pup to leave the turtles alone? Or fence them off? So easy to do either...

If he had, I would not have grown up to be "Queen of the Forum"!
 

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