Blog Entries ( Rottweilers )

After rescuing my dog Daisy, I had to surf the Internet to figure out how to teach her not to bite me when I put her halti on for a walk. She was only 3-months old, but when she nipped, it hurt! When she first nipped, all I could think about was if I can’t stop her from biting she’s going to take my hand ...

Animal shelters have many black dogs in need of a forever home. Black dogs are the first to be euthanized, and their mere color make them undesirable to adopt. Why are black dogs not wanted? It could be because some of the larger dogs are black or because society has the idea that “black” is associated with bad. The reason there is such a high ...

This is my pup, Zeus, and the red dog peeking up at the bottom of the picture is Apollo. They were about 4-months old in this picture. My husband and I rescued them from the animal shelter when they were 2-months old  (Zeus) and 3-months old (Apollo). After bringing them home, I immediatly took them on walks. It was a bit of a challenge to get ...

Waggin' Train Rescue was created in response to the aftermath of 9/11 where many animals were lost and abandoned. Jane Kleinsinger is the founder of Waggin' Train Rescue, and she transported dozens of animals from the New York City shelter to the opened doors of several humane organizations in Vermont and Connecticut. In 2006 and 2007, Kleinsinger partnered with Katya Edwards and Nanette LaRochelle. ...

This is Huckleberry, a 4-year old neutered male, available at Dawg Squad Animal Rescue in Los Angeles. Huck is a Rottweiler and Blue Tick Coon Hound mix, which gives him the interesting merle and Rottie markings. He has an adorable face and is great with kids, with other dogs, and seems to get along with cats. This Rottie mix was turned into the ...

These are my dogs: Apollo (red dog), Zeus, and Daisy (Rottweiler). I rescued all of them from animal shelters. Apollo was three-months old when I adopted him; Zeus was two-months old and came from a litter of eight; and Daisy was abandoned at a PetSmart grooming center. The grooming supervisor called me when Daisy was transported to a no-kill shelter in Houston, Texas, and I ...

I was walking Daisy this morning, and during our walk, she started to have a hard time with her left-front paw. When we made it home, I took a look at it. Sure enough, one of the pads was bleeding. I knew right away that she had some glass lodged in her paw. I knew this because I had taken glass out of the pad ...