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Exactly, per page 42, you are required to use a special weapon in close combat if you have one.

This overrides the Rending rule on TWC (including characters on TWC, like Canis).

As a purely intellectual exercise DR is pointing out that this rule could be expressed more clearly, but how the rules function in this case is not in question.