We all hate doing household chores and cleaning the mess our pooches tend to make every single hour. But what if they clean up all themselves or what if they help you with even your personal chores as well? Sounds really exciting! This is because we probably never imagined a dog helping us with household chores, especially Rottweilers, who are generally known for being outdoor working pooches rather than being a shy indoor family pooch.

Well, let me tell you Rottweilers are “completely family pooches” just like others despite having strong protective nature. In fact, Rottweilers are one of the best dog breeds that can help you with your chores. This is because they are super active working pooches and so, tend to become sad and destructive on staying jobless. Rotties eagerly wait for being tied into some work and this is a piece of great news for people who just hate doing household chores!  

So, without a further delay, let’s get into the 7 different household chores your Rottweiler can help you with within your daily routine!

1. Pulling work

You can absolutely hand over all the pulling works to your Rottie while doing other household chores. Let me explain to you why!
“According to the historical records, Rottweiler used to pull and take meat carts from butchers to the market many decades ago.”

Well, certainly, you will not be having a “meat cart” pulling work included in your chores list. Still, there are so many other pulling tasks you might have been doing alone for so long that you can certainly leave on your Rottie, from now on.

For example,

We all plan to clean yards but tend to postpone it again and again as it involves a wide range of different tasks. But you don’t need to postpone your cleaning plans anymore if you have a cute Rottweiler in your house.

Do all the sitting tasks like cutting, leveling, re-edging, seeding, and watering yourself, and let your Rottie pull the debris cart from one place to another every single time. You can also ask your buddy to run and bring tools and other stuff so that you can do the whole task in a really short time.

Other pulling tasks you can involve your Rottie into can be, pulling off a grocery cart in the supermarket, moving garbage trolley to the street dustbin, taking serving trollies to the guests, and pulling baby prams or strollers sometimes if needed. However, of course, you will need to train your pooch for all the stuff but they will surely learn all this in a really quick time as they were initially bred for pulling work which still might be running in their bloodline.

2. Lifting work

Rottweilers are working dogs and are super strong. They are one of the most muscular dog breeds. Hence, you can get assistance from your Rottie in lifting works as well.

As mentioned previously, your Rottie can help you with trolly pulling when you are checking out the labels of food products and finding other stuff in the supermart. But furthermore, this grocery shopping can become even easier if you allow your Rottie to carry and take these shopping bags from your car to inside your house. Your Rottweiler will definitely gonna love this, as they just need “any job” to do.

You can also ask your Rottweiler to take dirty clothes baskets to laundry areas or washed clothes baskets back to the wardrobe. You rottie can also help you out by moving boxes filled with heavy stuff to other rooms if you have just shifted your house or need some assistance while renovating your rooms.

3. Early morning support

We all struggle to wake up early in the morning. Sometimes due to our late sleeping habits and sometimes because we just get lazy and keep on snoozing our alarms.

Well, you will be surprised to know that your Rottweiler buddy can be your natural alarm clock as they can attack you with their licks and cuddles every morning. Rottweilers can also learn tricks for the opening and closing of curtains. This “curtain opening” task alone is enough for you to get up as you will be getting natural sunlight directly on your face.

Other than all these, fidos usually hang out around the whole house and check if everything is fine after getting up just in case you are still asleep, and this is something really satisfying for the owners.

There are a few more things that your Rottie can help you with at the very beginning of your day. You can ask you Rottie to call all the family members one-by-one so they can have breakfast downstairs.  Your Rottie can also fetch you mail or newspaper from the mailbox outside.

Dogs not only help us wake early in the morning but can also become a “reminder” for our daily routine tasks. They are scheduled-buddies and want everything to be done at their specific fixed times. So, if your Rottie is trained well, she will definitely remind you when it’s mealtime or homework time or whenever you are getting late for something.

4. Cleaning of the house

Cleaning and sweeping are actually one of the most time-consuming household chores and a bit overwhelming as well. The good news here is that your Rottweiler would love to contribute her efforts to this horrible household chore.

Rottweiler will quickly learn to vacuum and sweep if the vacuum cleaner you own is really easy to hold. Likewise, if you have soft-handle mops and Swiffer, moping and other different cleanings can also be handed over to your rottie, or at least they can help you complete your 50% work themselves.

Other household cleaning cores your Rottweiler can help you with can be - taking and leaving trash into the dustbins. Rottweiler can also help you with “furniture dusting” if they are really craving for work and want to help you with anything possible. They just need to hold a feather duster pole into their mouth and move around the furniture in a way that it removes all the dust away. There are a couple more things you can ask your Rottie to do for you!

Let your Rottweiler learn to wipe his dirty paws before entering the house. You can also ask her to clean eating areas every time after they have their meals.

This time you are not seeking help but making them learn something that will prevent them from making the whole mess that you would be cleaning later on.

5. Baby protection

Guarding your little baby is another thing your Rottweiler can do for you when you are busy doing your housework or other chores. It is also one of the best ways to keep your Rottie completely busy just in case you need to run a really urgent errand.

Other than this, you can also tie your Rottweiler to a job where they have to entertain your crying baby when you are unable to focus on your work. This way, the things would get done in a really short time as you will not be handling two things at a time, anymore!

6. Usual Home tasks

Rottweilers are really smart and tend to learn whatever you teach them in a really short time. Hence, you can teach your Rottie almost all of the household chores you do in a day and prevent yourself from getting overburdened.

Well, you can’t totally hand over a complete task to your pooch in this case. You rather have to partly involve them in your chores in a way that they provide assistance only. You will eventually find that 30-40% of your work is getting done alone by a little furry friend. 

Your Rottie buddy can help you a lot with the laundry work as it usually involves a bunch of easy tasks. Ask your Rottie to bring a dirty clothes basket to the laundry area. Let her put them one-by-one inside the machine and ask them to take all the clothes out when they are washed. Similarly, tell her again to take the washed clothes basket back into the room.

Rottweilers can also be asked to gather and put the toys they scattered onto the floor, into the toy basket. Moreover, they can be trained for taking a bowl to the kitchen to remind you when it’s a mealtime. Similarly, you can ask them to bring stuff from the fridge or pick something that fell down when you are busy preparing dinner. They can also help you with dishes, sometimes.

Fidos genuinely get happy when are asked to complete a task so you can fearlessly ask them to do anything whether it is a cleaning chore or something relevant to the kitchen.

7. Retrieving Jobs

Even if your Rottie doesn’t help you with the above-discussed 6 types of household chores, just a lot of retrieving tasks done by them throughout the whole day will be pretty much enough for you. This task alone will eventually make you feel relaxed and less stressed at the end of the day.
Now, what retrieving jobs you can offer your Rottweiler?

There are a bunch of things in our daily routine that are super annoying to us. For instance, bringing the mobile phone you left in your backyard, going up the stairs to pick a fallen key, carrying shopping bags in a mall, finding lost documents all around the house, and so much more.
In such situations, you literally wish to get a personal assistant that can help you do those stupid annoying tasks.
But you are actually lucky if you have a Rottweiler dog in your house. Here is the list of retrieving tasks you can ask your Rottie to do for you:

• Pass the remote from a nearby table.
• Bring a soft drink from the fridge.
• Pick up the fallen things from the ground.
• Carry baskets or other heavy stuff.
• Close the door of the room.
• Switch off the light and close the curtain (when you are too sleepy).
• Find all the lost keys and important stuff.
• Close kitchen’s open cabinets and drawers to make it look organized.

Rotties can undergo all these tasks faster than you as they are one of the most energetic dog breeds and always remain eager to get more and more tasks!
NOTE:
Keep in mind that you will not get the results if you immediately leave this site and ask your Rottweiler to do something. Your Rottie puppy will need to undergo obedience training, command learning, positive reinforcement, and a lot of practice to help you with each of the mentioned household chores. If they are grown up and well trained, they will definitely require lesser time and effort.

Moreover, Rottweilers can become stubborn sometimes. In such cases, do not force or hit your Rottie to do anything or they will become aggressive and growl at you. Make a lot of fun times with your Rottweiler puppy first to get them to respect you. Then gradually move on to the learning process!

You all know that horses have been kept as pets for a very long time, maybe over 5000 years. The prime reason for keeping horses in ancient times was using them as a “source of transport”. People could cover miles of distance at a very high pace sitting on this beautiful and loyal creature.

Horses can also read human emotions through their facial expressions, and that made these creatures a perfect partner to cover vast distances on.    

However, in this era, things have been changed. Now horses are being adopted to fulfill hobbies like horse riding. This is because horse riding not only makes our soul happy but also serves as a Great Exercise. 

You might have seen riders move up, down, back, and forth so hard while riding a horse. That movement they get while riding stretches their muscles from different parts, giving them a full-body workout.

That all seems interesting but, do you know how long do horses live? This is something one must know so he could be able to even think about getting this piece of joy anytime in his future life.

So, the general answer to this question is 25-30 years. Ponies, however, tend to live longer than horses. There are also some records kept where the horses have been lived up to 40 years and above. For instance, the world record marks Old Billy as the horse that lived up to the age of 62 years. 

Let’s check the lifespan of horses from other breeds!

VARIATION BETWEEN BREEDS

There are almost 350 horse breeds, however; only five general horse categories:

1. American Quarter Horse
2. Arabian Horse
3. Thoroughbred
4. Appaloosa
5. Morgan

But the thing is, when it comes to the lifespan of a horse, variation between the breeds Does Not Matter, and the lifespan throughout the whole species remains the same.

Even so, Arabian horses are expected to live a longer life but, that’s just an expectation. On the other side, racehorses or the horses for performances are at more risk of death.

WAYS FOR CHECKING A HORSE’S AGE

There are generally two ways for checking a horse’s age. 

One way to get an estimated age of a horse is to check the physical signs. For instance, turning of hairs into gray color and loosening of muscle tone marks the beginning of senior years. Moreover, droopy lips and sunken eyes can also be signs of old age. Nevertheless, these physical signs will tell you the estimated age only, not the accurate one.

Another way to get to know about horses’ age is by checking their teeth. 

Sounds weird? But that’s true!

To tell an exact age, experts need to examine and read a horse’s teeth. By checking the presence of some specific types of teeth, they get an idea of the estimated years that the horse has lived till that time. The younger the horse will be, the accurate the age will be guessed.

Although all the horse details including the age remain mentioned over the “horse-identity registration papers”; however, one can use the ways mentioned above in case of losing or not having an approach to those papers.

HELP YOUR HORSE LIVE LONGER

Being devoted horse partners or parents, all of us wish our horses to have a maximum lifespan. Although that’s out of our hands, keeping our horses physically and mentally healthy would help them fight against illness or diseases, or in other words, help them live longer.

Lunging is an exercise that makes the horse improve the balance that it requires while carrying a rider. Therefore, lunging them once a week or twice would be helpful to maintain their fitness. Besides, socialize your horse with other horses. By doing so, the horse will feel better and would learn new things day after day.

FINAL WORDS

Well, how long your horse lives depends on its health care, level of activity, exercise, and of course, luck. So take care of their teeth, hooves, and all their medical needs!

As you are here, you might have been planning to bring a little pooch in your family, and thus might be studying details about the working of their internal system. For instance, how do dogs cool down in hot weather, or how exactly do dogs face sunny days.

Even if you are not planning to adopt a puppy, we all must be aware of every single tiny detail about these fluffy animals in this era. You will be surprised to know that U.S pet ownership statistics show that 38.4% of households own dogs while other pet’s ratio, including cats, is much more lesser.

Whether a canine comes from a German shepherd bloodline or a bulldog bloodline, dogs' faithfulness and loyalty have won millions of people’s hearts.

Now, let’s get back to the matter. Did you wonder how dogs cool off when they are hot? 

This question seems interesting as you surely haven’t noticed sweat ever over a dog’s hairy body. 

So, basically, there are three ways of temperature regulation inside their body. Let’s go in-depth!

3 WAYS OF COOLING DOWN

Sweating Through Paw Pads

You already know dogs do not sweat like humans when they feel hot, while the reason behind this is that dogs tend to possess very few sweat glands(Merocrine glands). This is actually completely fine for them since unlike humans, dogs do have a few more options given for their temperature regulation.

Now, the matter of fact is that "those very few sweat glands" are located under dogs' feet rather than being located on their body. The canines hence sweat and cool down through their paw pads.

You might have often seen footprints of dogs directing you somewhere to a nearby location. That is because that dog had been feeling hot and was sweating. However, this sweating through paw pads plays a very tiny role in cooling down the temperature of a canine's body, dogs mainly cool down through PANTING! Now, 

What is Panting?

Panting can be declared as the primary way of controlling the temperature regulation of a dog’s body.

When dogs pant, they usually breathe heavily with their mouths open. As they breathe heavily, the moisture on their tongue evaporates, consequently cooling the tongue and the blood-flow through the tongue. Panting also evaporates the moisture from nasal passages and lungs.

During panting, an enormous amount of water can evaporate in a very short time. So, make sure your little fluffy friend intakes a sufficient amount of water during hot days.

Dogs also pant when they get excited or stressed, or when they feel uncomfortable. So do make sure your dog’s panting is normal.

The Third And The Last Way: Vasodilation

This is an internal kind of temperature regulation that occurs to happen around a dog’s face-blood-vessels.

During vasodilation, the blood vessels around the dog’s face expand, bringing the hot blood nearer to the skin. The heat exchange occurs and thus the body of the canine cools down. This is the second primary way of thermoregulation and is more effective for dogs that are being overheated from exercise, rather than by direct sunlight.

TIPS TO MAKE YOUR DOG STAY COOL

Despite the natural ways of thermoregulation inside a dog’s body, there is still a risk of heatstroke in summer. To protect your dog from heatstroke during hot days, do follow these tips as much as possible:

• Avoid exercising your dog.
• Switch on the fan/Ac when you find your dog’s paws wet.
• Make your pooch stay under shade when taking it outside on a sunny day.
• Do not lock your furry friend inside the car.
• Walk your buddy early in the morning.
• Make your dog drink plenty of water.
• Use cooling towels to cool your fido.
• Make your dog enjoy the paddling pool.

FINAL WORDS

Keep checking and taking care of your furry friend, especially in summer seasons. These natural ways cool the body internally only so; cool down your dog externally as well by following the tips mentioned above.

Reminder: Next time when you see an outdoor dog sitting and breathing heavily taking its tongue out, don't forget to give her some water!