According to the United States Census Bureau, Belvedere Park has a total area of 5.0 square miles (13 km2), all of it land. Belvedere Park emerged beginning in 1952 as a planned community with schools, parks, and a shopping center.
Rottweilers were originally dogs bred to drive cattle to market. Later they were used to pull carts for butchers. They were among the earliest police dogs and serve with honor in the military. Most important, they are popular family guardians and friends.
When the driving of cattle by dogs was outlawed in Germany at the turn of the 20th cent., the Rottweiler was used as a draft animal and, increasingly, as a police dog. Its police-dog ability saved the breed from extinction. Today the breed is still much used in police work and is also raised as a pet. See dogdog,