White Rottweilers or white rottweiler puppy
We would like to believe that a white or albino Rottweiler would be cool, but that is far from the truth. In most cases (about 90%), a white Rottweiler is white from either having a mix of another breed in the bloodline, or the dogs were inbred, overbred, or both.
A mixed breed, for example, would be a Rottweiler bred to a white German shepherd. The result would be whoever has the dominant gene, or each dog may contribute different genes together. The puppy may have all the physical characteristics of a large, robust rottweiler with a completely white hair coat.
Inbreeding takes very close relatives such as; father to daughter and produces a puppy. The puppy can come out albino because a recessive gene gets broken. If one gene does nothing, then the gene is broken.
White Rottweilers have worse health problems. Results can be a poor immune system and can suffer from illness. The illness can be a slight cut, and the body cannot fight the infection—horrible mutations and conditions such as; hip dysplasia and improper jaw forming (underbite and overbite). Inbreeding can result in behavioral problems.
Albino or albinism is a recessive gene; each gene makes melanin which means it is working; melanin makes the dog another color such as; brown, black, tan, or grey. The "albino gene" is not a gene that makes you albino, it is the gene that does nothing, and if that is all you have, you will lack melanin and be albino.
Melanin is a natural pigment found in most organisms. In animals, melanin pigments are derivatives of the amino acid L-tyrosine. I believe this is why Rottweiler’s mouths turn pink. A Rottweiler may look fabulous in white color, but many health issues come from it.
Is it possible to have a white gene in a Rottweiler?
It is not proven where the white gene could have come from if it was mistakenly bred into the dog’s bloodline, but it is possible. It may have come from the late 1800 or early 1900 back near Germany, Switzerland, and Italy borders. Switzerland reconized the Berger Blanc Suisse (German: Weisser Schweizer Schaferhund, White Swiss Shepherd Dog) on April 3, 1899.
The first documented German shepherd in Switzerland was named Horand von Grafrath, which has a white German Shepherd gene on record. Horand Von Grafraths' grandfather was Greif von Sparwasser # SV-ALT 990217, the first white German shepherd on paper in Switzerland. We do not know Greif's litter date, but on the form by the European database, he had one litter resulting in 1 puppy on paper. The puppies name was Lene vom Sparwasser # SZ 156, D.O.B 01.01.1884. This fact shows that Greif probably would of sire this litter within 12 years, dating back to 1872.
I researched the working dog database following the bloodlines to the current 2012 year. On record, I did not find a dog with the pure white gene come out in any dog’s pedigree. This does not mean that no puppies were born pure white. It is possible any puppy born white was killed after birth because the white gene was unfavorable or people wanted to breed out the gene. Then the owners never recorded the white puppy. Unfortunately, we cannot tell if another pure white German shepherd was born in that bloodline without a picture on record.
The gene in the white Swiss Shepherd was proven to be a recessive masking gene, bleaching the pigment from a colored dog, keeping the dark eyes, black lips, nose, pads, and nails. It is not linked to deafness or albinism.
Now we have proof the pure white German Shepherd existed in 1884. Then this would put different breeds of dogs all over Europe around the time Rome started takeovers in other parts of Europe. The Romans marched through Switzerland, Germany, and Austria to bring their large Roman dogs and probably took puppies from litters in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany for themselves and even allowed or unknowingly bred their Roman dogs with any local dog on the Journey. Everything is speculation but not impossible; this also would make sense throughout history.
The white German Shepherd dog could have traveled through Switzerland to Germany, breeding any local female dogs near Rottweil, Germany. Another white dog is the Czechoslavian Slovac Cuvac mountain dog, documented far back into the 17th century by the Czech Republic or formally known as Czechoslavakia. The dog was long in coat and pure white. The long jacket here could have been bred into the Rottweiler, but speculation is the Bernese Mountain Dog is responsible for the long coat gene in the Rottweiler.
A Hungarian dog breed named the Kuvasz or Kuvaszok was also pure white. The origins lay with a nomadic tribe around 2000 B.C.; the tribe moved along the country, bringing the dogs for protection and herding.
Germany also invaded and conquered parts of Europe. One country was Hungary, where the Kuvasz protected the families and livestock. It is documented that nearly all the Kuvaszok dogs had been killed by the end of World War II. The dogs undeserved reputation for protecting their families was recognized and actively sought and killed by German and Soviet soldiers. Some German police took the Kuvaszok dogs home, now bringing another possibility of a white trait to be bred in the Rottweiler’s bloodlines.
Each factor implied here could be a possibility to have the gene in the bloodline, but one fact is Germany (ADRK) did not try to breed other dogs in the Rottweilers bloodline. Germany had goals for the Rottweiler Breed in 1907 and is still followed by their breed standard.
It is possible that some sneaky or untrustworthy people bred other dogs into the bloodline before 1907 to create size, and though it is not documented, it is likely they could have hidden the trait. Dogs were not given a DNA profile until recently.
Since the black and tan trait is dominant, the first Rottweilers on record could have any white attribute. It is a gene.
White Rottweiler puppy Price?
They can range anywhere from $800 $1,500 in the united states.
Rottweiler white and black
These are the generally accepted colors for Rottweilers:
Black and mahogany
Black and tan
Black and rust
Dogs will be disqualified if the base color is something other than black and if markings are absent. Markings can vary in size though.
“Always black with rust to mahogany markings. The distinction between black and rust is to be clearly defined.”