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Color-Always black with rust to mahogany marking. The demarcation between black and rust is to be clearly defined. The markings should be located as follows: a spot over each eye: on cheeks: as a strip around each side of muzzle, but not the bridge of the nose: on throat: triangular mark on both sides of prosternum: on forelegs from carpus downward to the toes: on inside of rear legs showing down the front of the stifle and broadening out to front of rear legs fromhock to toes, but not completely eliminating black from rear of pasterns: under tail: black penciling on toes. The undercoat is gray,tan,or black. Quantity and location of rust markings is important and should not exceed ten percent of body color.

Serious Faults: Straw-colored, excessive, insufficient or sooty marking: rust marking other than described above: white marking ant place on dog ( a few rust or white hairs do not constitute a marking)

Disqualification's: Any base color other than black: absence of all markings.

Gait- The Rottweiler is a trotter. His movement should be balanced, harmonious, sure, powerful and unhindered,with strong and a powerful rear drive. The motion is effortless, efficient and ground covering. Front and rear legs are thrown neither in nor out, as the imprint of hind feet should touch that of forefeet. In a trot the forequarters and hindquarters are mutually coordinated while the back remains level, firm and relatively motionless. As speed increases the legs will converge under body towards a center line.

Temperament- The Rottweiler is basically a calm,confident and courageous dog with a self-assured aloofness that does not lend itself to immediate and indiscriminate friendship. A Rottweiler is self-confident and responds quietly and with a wait-and-see attitude to influenced in his environment. He has an inherent desire to protect home and family, and is an intelligent , guardian and general all-purpose dog. The behavior of the Rottweiler in the show ring should be controlled, willing and adaptable, trained to submit to examination of mouth,testicles, est.. An aloof or reserved dog should not be penalized, as this reflects the accepted character of the breed. An aggressive or belligerent attitude towards other dogs should not be faulted.
A judge shall excuse from the ring any shy Rottweiler. A dog should be judged fundamentally shy if, refusing to stand for examination, if shrinks away from the judge. A dog the, in the opinion of the judge menaces or threatens him/her, or exhibits any sign that it may be safety approached or examined by the judge in the normal manner, shall be excused from the ring. A dog that in the opinion of the judge attacks any person in the ring shall be disqualified.

It has been written that Roman used a brawny beasts of a dog in the arena, known as the Mollosus. There is no recorded proof that these Mollosus dogs were, in fact, the ancestors of today's Rottweiler. However, dogs of this type existed throughout every region of Europe where the Roman legions traveled-including Germany. As early as 2000 B.C. the Romans occupied a town in Southern Germany that they called Arae Flavia. It was an isolated but strategic town militarily and politically. For this reason, Arae Flavia became a highly developed administration and social center. The town had a lage enough population and sufficient activity to encourage setting up the fun-and -games facilities the Romans were accustomed to back home. Baths and brothels proliferated, along with the more serious aspects of the Roman lifestyle such as temples and aqueducts.

All this activity called for building administration centers. The more important of these centers had red tiled roofs, and the town eventually became known a Rottwil ( translated, it means "red ville").

Through the ages, Rottwil (later Rottweil) endured invasions and occupations that decimated the Roman populations, and their dogs along with them. The surviving dogs found mates among the local breeds, and, as time passed, two distinct types of dog emerged. One type was very large and was used primarily for draft work. Those dogs also doubled as guards to ensure the safe arrival of the contents of the carts they pulled.

The other type of dog that developed in Rottwil was a more moderate but versatile variety. No less couragous an animal, the smaller dogs were initially used for herding, but as time passed they became known as the Metzgerhunde, or butcher's dog, because so many of the people who made their living as butchers kept the dogs. Eventually, though, the two types of dogs merged and became known simply as Rottweilers.

According to folklore, in the Middle Ages Rottweilers were known as the butcher's dogs of Rottweil. The name developed from the fact that butchers of the area tied the money they would use to buy cattle around the dog's necks for safekeeping. What thief would dare take the money off the neck of a Rottweiler?