He was attacked by a rottweiler as he delivered a parcel to a house in the Pontypridd area.

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And he said that while Cayman crocodiles do not make good "pets" - they were in his opinion less dangerous than a Rottweiler.

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"Well, a rottweiler doesn't smile when he savages you!"

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"It's nuts, man, " says 49-year-old Clyde Wheatley, a bulldozer operator whose Rottweiler and Labrador have no barking violations.

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He was looking for a trainer who would help him train his Rottweiler puppy instead.

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Two others, Martin Wolf, the Financial Times' chief economics rottweiler, and Clare Spottiswoode, a former utility regulator, are said to be more provocative but not yet obviously wedded to any position.

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