Actually I prefer males. He isn't bad for dominance. We had a purebred female, and she was the ruler of the house. I am a rotti lover as well, but we wanted a change, and the newf has such a good rep. Our dogs are babies though, wouldn't hurt a fly, maybe play with them till they die but not deliberately hurt them. The fly that is...
Our first rotti (a male named Ripper) died at the ripe ole age of 13. We had to put him down, he had a stroke. Our second rotti (a female named Tiamat, Tia) lived till she was 11. She broke her front leg, she had bone cancer, never new it till she went to the vet to find out what was wrong with her leg, couldn't tell it was broke, she never complained, we had her put down as well. Then we got our big boy Tiny. And after searching for a newf, we finally were lucky to have found Joy. Wow, sorry to have went on and on here. I have the girft of gab...