We asked to look at the only Rottweiler puppy that was left, the same little boy that had licked my fingers earlier.  There was a hamburger squeaky toy in the pen we took him in and he immediately picked it up to play with.  Eric and I threw it back and forth while he chased it.  He seemed to like both of us equally, running from one to the other.  He wasn’t stingy with kisses either.  

I had Eric pick him up with his hands under the puppy’s chest and hold him in the air between his legs.  This is supposed to test how submissive the puppy is.  A dog that would struggle hard would be considered dominant, a trait we didn’t want in a big dog, and a dog who was submissive and potentially fearful would tuck its tail between its legs and be still.  The puppy wiggled for a few seconds, then tucked its tail and was still.  

Eric put him down and distracted him while I threw my keys against the rocks to check for a fearful reaction.  The puppy jumped at the noise, but then went over to investigate the keys.  I wasn’t sure what to think because the tests seemed show that this dog was both confident and submissive, which seemed to be contradictory results.   We gave him back to a volunteer and walked back over to look at the Great Dane.