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A butcher's cart-pulling dog that now mostly guards couches it is not allowed on.

means A large, powerfully built German breed of dog, historically used for driving cattle and pulling carts, now best known as a guard and family dog.

from Named for Rottweil, a town in southern Germany, where the dogs descended from Roman drover dogs that had accompanied legions over the Alps and stayed on to work the local cattle trade — earning the nickname 'Rottweiler Metzgerhund,' or 'Rottweil butcher's dog,' for their job hauling carts of meat and purses of coin tied safely round their necks.

roman roots
descended from drover dogs the romans marched over the alps
job history
once herded cattle and carried money pouches for butchers
bite force
among the strongest bites of any domestic dog breed
actual temperament
calm and loyal, reputation does more damage than they do
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