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My father raised several litters of Rotties. They're everything TR said and more. I'm not sure how successful you'll be with your outside dog idea. The more socialized (discipline is just part of it) the Rottie is, the less behaviour problems you'll have. That usually means making the dog a fully integrated "family member". Then your house smells like big dog; complete with hair and body oils all over everything including walls and furniture to about waist level. (Experience with my father's Rotties including the aforementioned hard headed, easilly bored, destructive, and homeowners insurance risks are why we've stuck with GSDs.)Good luck.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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