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This is from a post on a Rottweiler forum:

Hello I am in desprate need of everyone's help. I am going to try to tell our story in the short version but I am not too sure how too so please bare with me.

My daughter Heather is 14 years old and in October last year she started working with a 3 year old Rottweiler named Della. Della has been trained as and has a certificate as a service dog. On May 20th for the first time since April 2005 my daughter suffered 4 seizures in her classroom at school. I went to school and picked her up. Later that night she was admitted to the hospital in the Critical Care Unit. While there Della's owner's and trainers brought Della to the hospital. Della was able to alert the medical staff to things going on with Heather before the nurses could pick it up and started alerting to seizures as much as 30 to 60 mins before the actual seizure. We all were amazed and after the first one the hospital staff did not want Della to leave. Della ended up staying the entire time with my daughter in the hospital. When she was released we found that every time my daughter was going to have a seizure Della would tell us at home it was as much as 30 mins before hand. On Monday 26th Della when back with her trainer because she was supposed to go to an elementary school in another city for the day. At a little after midnight I was woken up by a phone call from the trainer who was very upset. He told me that he had tried everything and could not get Della to calm down, that she was whining and passing the floor and no matter what she would not stop. He asked me to please check on my daughter because that was the only thing he could think of that could be wrong. Ten minutes after the phone call my daughter suffered a grand mal seizure. Had the trainer not called me because of Della's behavior I would have never known because I would have been asleep. Now this brings me to what comes next.
On Tuesday, I took my daughter, and Della (who was wearing her service dog vest, had appropriate ID, and a letter as well as a prescription from her doctor for the dog, yes I know but the school wanted it) to the school. The school refused to let my daughter go to class with Della. Not did they refuse to allow Della to go with my daughter to class on Tuesday but they have refused every day this week. They are now telling me that Rottweilers CAN NOT be service dogs and that the breed is TOO Dangerous for this type of work. Della is not dangerous. She has never hurt anyone or shown signs of hurting anyone. She sat in 3 school meetings and never so much as sighed at anything or anyone. The school adminstration even stated that they were amazed at how focused on my daughter she was and that it was like no one else was in the room but the two of them. ( I pointed out that this is how a service dog was supposed to act.) I have heard excuses from other kids may be scared of the dog, there may be kids allergic to the dog, it would fundamentally change their school program to have the dog in the classroom with my daughter, there is a saftey concern towards the other students, who would be liable if the dog "Snapped and bite someone" and yes that is what they said. These are just some of the things that they are saying now.
My lawyer is asking for help. We need people who have Rottweilers that are actively working as service dogs. We need to show this school district that they are wrong and that it is also wrong prevent my daughter from going to school with this dog who is able to help her by telling us before she has a seizure and making her feel safe. BTW, no one helped my daughter when she had a seizure and as a matter of fact no one even recognized that she was having one until another teacher came in and saw it. Yet this school states that they can retrain their personnel and that I should trust them to do so and let me daughter go to school without her service dog."

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Of course I am biased as a Rottweiler owner but come on, how irrational can people be? I have said this before but I know someone who was badly bitten by a Basset Hound! A Labrador can be aggressive and I have seen that too. This is just incredible!