It is a well known fact recorded in most Rottweiler books, including The World of Rottweilers by Anna Katherine Nicholas, that in 1905 only one Rottweiler bitch could be found living in Rottweil, the German town for which the breed is named. Now most people, upon seeing this comment, would believe that our beautiful breed was teetering on the verge of extinction. However, old government documents, recently unearthed in Berlin, reveal that in reality this simply wasn't the case.

The reason that only one Rottie could be found in Rottweil was because all of the other Rottweilers had been confiscated for a top secret project by the German War Department. You see, even in those days, nearly a decade before WWI, European governments were already researching new weapons ideas.

German scientists confiscated the Rottweilers because members of the German government recognized a potentially deadly weapon --- Rottie Gas. However, they realized that it would not be possible to have a line of Rotties standing on a battlefield with rumps pointing toward the enemy. They wanted to isolate whatever chemical compound made the gas so lethal, so that it could manufactured for use in bombs.

However, this experiment was a complete failure and the project was shut down shortly after the very unpleasant deaths of several of the scientists involved.

Because of this failure, when war did begin in Europe, both sides relied heavily upon mustard and chlorine gases ... both of which all Rottie owners know are MUCH less lethal than Rottweiler Methane.

US government insiders have also mentioned a rumor that a couple of decades ago, Washington also financed a special project involving Rottie Gas. In response to dwindling natural resources, the government wanted to find an alternate source of natural gas. However, according to these insiders, this project was also shut down for similar reasons as the German one. Apparently, the gas ate through the twelve inches of protective Plexiglas that contained it and killed five workers in the plant. The government quickly covered these deaths, evacuated residents within a 100-mile radius of the plant, and decided to look for a safer power source ... like nuclear power.