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The Code of the Rottweiler, Rule Two

Rule one, if you recall is: Pain is as nothing.

Today's rule (number two of the Rottweiler Code):

Bad things never happen.

This is why Rottweilers make good guard dogs ("Someone hit me on the head with a stick? When?"). It's also why they don't totally get 'no' and why they're not very trainable with negative methods.

I actually kind of like this philosophy and wish I were better at applying it myself, though you have to admit it must give them kind of skewed world-view....