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Does anyone else have a longhaired rotti. I adopted a dog from someone on petfinder.com two years ago. I was told that she was a longhaired rotti and that it was from a ressesive gene. I have papers for her and both parents were rotti. Others have told me that they have heard of them but breeds tell me that they don't exist. You can definatly tell that she has rotti in her but I must say that her head does look more lab. Any thoughts???

Cindy

I have personally never heard of a longhaired rotti.... but I have seen a long haired Shar Pei and a long haired Weimeriner so I cant say that it's impossible. If you have her papers, have you tried contacting the breeder she is supposedly from and possibly having blood tests done on the parents to deturmine if they are actually the parents of your dog? This can be pricey but it is one way to know for sure. Considering the number of different dogs that can go into creating a breed, it is not impossible that on of these dogs had long hair and the long hair gene is in the breed. Think about Standard Poodles for example : the "parti" (black and white) is a recessive gene that many breeders say means the dog is not pure however if you go back a few hundred years to early poodles, the black and white 'parti' dogs were fairly common and the resessive gene for Parti is in many pure bred poodles today. I am not saying this dog is a pure bred long haired rotti, but I'm not saying its impossible.

Thanks for your imput. No, I havent done any of what you suggested. It isn't really important to me if she full rotti or not. She is beautiful and a GREAT dog. I was just wondering if anyone has heard of them and if anyone has one. I did find one and a picture of it on the internet once and it looked just like mine. But I have not been able to find any others since. All that you say makes a lot of sence though. Thanks. Any others out there with imput??? )

do you have a pic of her?

I do but don't know how to up load it. She looks very much like the picture on the website that was posted for me earlier.

Posting pictures is very easy here. All you need to do is have them in a folder on your hard drive. You have access to a free 10mb photo account here at the DogHobbyist. The link to the Photo Gallery is near the top of the page... just click and register. Here are some instructions I use for posting on the Shiba Inu forum. Just substitute Rottweiler where I have Shiba Inu.

At the top of the page, Click on Photo Gallery
Scroll down to Shiba Inu. Click.
Find where it says Upload Photo.
If you haven't Logged In you will have to do so first.
Click on Upload Photo.
When the page opens...where it says Choose a category
be sure it says Shiba Inu.
Click on Browse. Find your photo in the dialogue box and click open.
There is also a link to upload multiple pictures if you choose to do so.
Enter a Title for your photo.
Click Upload/Submit.
Do this proceedure for all your photos, you have 10mb of free storage here.
Now go back to the shiba forum. Enter your post as normal, scroll down below the text box to where it says Select Image from Photo Gallery. Use the drop down arrow to find the photo you would like to post, and click on the photo.
You can also hold down your CTRL key and highlite up to three photos to place in a post.
If you would like to title your photos or place a little story about them you can do so easily by copying the URL that is at the bottom of each uploaded picture. To find the url, click to enlarge the picture and you will find the url below the photo. Just copy any or all Urls into Notepad or something similar. When posting pictures using the URL's you will need to add [ IMG ] and [ /IMG ] before and after the url. Please note there should be no spaces in the brackets, that was just for posting purposes.
I would use the Preview feature to be sure your picture(s) loads, once done just click on Post Message.
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Thanks for the info but I should probably figure out how to use my son's digital camera before trying to do all that.:0)

Also if you have a scanner, you can scan in a few photos and have them in a folder and upload them that way. Once you can do it you'll see how easy it is.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.