Bobtail Rottweiler Information:
The Natural Born Bobtail gene (NBBT) in Bobtail Rottweilers, has been present in Australia since the early 1960’s, as the docking of Rottweilers was perfectly legal up until recent times, it was considered unnecessary to pursue this avenue of breeding. Since docking has been banned, a number of these rare Natural Born Bobtail Rottweilers have been imported back into Australia and the line is now fully re-established. This has been a similar predicament for many other breeds of pure bred dogs, that also carry the Natural Born Bobtail.
Rocky one of our Previous Bobtail Rottweiler pups and his Cat friend.
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There are a large number of different breeds, which carry the Natural Born Bobtail gene, just some breeds that have Naturally occurring Bobtails include (Courtesy of Wikipedia and other sources)
- Australian Shepherd
- Austrian Pinscher
- Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog
- Boston Terrier
- Boxer
- Braque du Bourbonnais
- Braque Francais
- Brazilian Terrier
- Brittany Spaniel
- Catahoula bulldog
- Croatian Sheepdog
- Danish Swedish Farmdog
- Dobermanns
- Donggyeongi
- English Bulldog
- Entlebucher Mountain Dog
- French Bulldog
- Jack Russell Terrier
- Karelian Bear Dog
- King Charles Spaniel
- McNab
- Miniature Fox Terrier
- Miniature Schnauzer
- Mudi
- Old English Sheepdog
- Parson Russell Terrier
- Pembroke Welsh Corgi
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog
- Pyrenean Shepherd
- Savoy Sheepdog
- Rat Terrier
- Rottweiler
- Schipperke
- Spanish Water Dog
- Swedish Vallhund
- Teddy Roosevelt Terrier
- Tenterfield Terrier
No doubt, some ill-informed individuals will claim; that they are not Natural Born Bobtails or that they suffer from health issues due to the lack of a tail. There is absolutely no evidence at all, to suggest that is the case. In fact, health wise they exhibit no more problems than tailed dogs. One so called knowledgeable breeder even suggested that they would not be able to walk properly as they had no tail, considering many breeds were surgically docked for centuries that is without doubt one of the most far reaching statements I have ever heard.
You now have the ANKC and some breeders quoting that the FCI Rottweiler Breed Standard, disqualifies NBT Bobtail Rottweilers; as the originating country chose to ban NBT Bobtail Rottweilers and with that the ANKC (DogsAustralia) no longer allowed NBT Bobtail Rottweilers to be registered with them. There was no genuine consultation with the ANKC and as usual they just rubber stamped the ban based on poor reasoning and facts.
One of the irrational claims put forward was health concerns, yet at no time were the ANKC able to provide one single scientific document to support the claim of health concerns. Bobtail Rottweilers have no known health concerns due to being a NBT.
No matter how much evidence is out there to support the fact that NBBT dogs are genuine and have no more issues than normal tailed dogs there will always be some narrow minded individual that says the opposite. Unfortunately for them, DNA Science does not lie and this trait can be tested for in most breeds of dogs, which we have done previously.
The “Ancestral T-Box Mutation Is Present in Many, but Not All, Short-Tailed Dog Breeds” study, was done in 2008 to show that if a dog carried the C189G gene that it would have a shortened tail. The researchers tested a total of 360 dogs, including 156 with a naturally short tail, from this it was determined that in 17 breeds the C189G gene was observed.
A number of breeds which are known to have Natural Bobtails were not even tested, the primary goal of this study was to determine that if a dog tested positive for the gene, then it would have a shortened tail. The degree of shortening also varied.
According to “Veterinary Genetics Laboratory“, The length of the bobbed tail is variable and under the influence of other as yet undetermined genetic factors that cause some NBT individuals to have nearly full-length tails while others may have virtually no tail.
For further Bobtail Rottweiler information check out our Rottweiler History page.