For the Love of Rottweilers [Hardcover]

Robert Hutchinson (Author), Zandria Muench-Beraldo (Illustrator), Mark Raycroft (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998 | Series: For the Love of

FOR THE LOVE OF ROTTWEILERS celebrates its magnificent subject in word and image. One hundred photographs of a prestigious group of pet photographers admiringly contemplate the Rottweiler as a living companion at work, at play, and at rest. The text by the eminent dog writer, Robert Hutchinson, elucidates with unprecedented clarity the hitherto obscure origins of the breed in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. This is a book to be reckoned with by all students of the breedand chewn like a sinewy schnapps by all Rottweiler lovers.

The first chapter ticks off the awesome design features that mark the Rottweiler as a triumph of genetic engineering. The second chapter recounts the firsts from the dawn of the breed (1882-1905): first written mentions, first images, first standards, and first dog show appearances. Hutchinson shows that all the specimens of this earliest phase were distinctly longer in the leg and muzzle than our modern Rottweiler. This lanky conformation was eliminated from stud by the triumph of a breed club that was formed in 1907 to advance the cause of a radically new mastiff-like conformation corresponding to that of the modern breed. The third chapter calculates maximum rates of point change attainable in dog breeding programs and concludes the modern Rottweiler could not possibly have been derived from the early Rottweiler by inbreeding alone. The final chapter presents a best-fit scenario for the development of the modern Rottweiler breed by successive outcrossings of a traditional long-legged herding type to two established breeds: first to the robust Leonberger, and then to the stocky early Boxer.

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Robert Hutchinson's coffee-table book For the Love of Rottweilers is filled with more than 80 striking photographs of Rottweilers... (Dorothea Gruenerwald, AKC Gazette, April 2000 Vol. 117, No. 4, p. 34) -- Dorothea Gruenerwald, AKC Gazette, April 2000 (Vol. 117, No. 4, p. 34)

I recommend For the Love of Rottweilers to prospective and new puppy owners. -- Brenda K. Jones, president of Southern States Rottweiler Rescue, Inc., Web Page, 1998

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Browntrout Publishers (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563139006
• ISBN-13: 978-1563139000
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 8.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,160,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Dog...good book!, December 17, 2009

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Another part of a gift I'm giving a friend who just got a Rottweiler and will pick up much needed information from this.