i had a phone call yesterday from an aquaintance who currently owns a boxer
he called up to say how insane i was contemplating getting a boxer as his has destroyed his house causing 2,000 pounds worth of damage. and currently the boxer casey is under going intense training from a police dog handler which has costed him £700. has any other boxer owners come across this problem.
it makes me even more determined to show him i have done my homework and have most angles covered. i have the commitment patience time and motivation.

Hi Emma,

Boxers are the most loving creatures ever but they are not for the faint hearted or for anyone who lacks time and dedication.

My boxer bitch was fed up one day and tunnelled her way from my hall through the wall in less that 3 hours into my kitchen :-) . She was 2.5 years old before she would recall and my hubby was involved in training for 15 years prior to this.

We did love her to bits and never ever regreted having her. Well not for more that 60 seconds LOL

I remember walking her off the lead at the pond beside us one day, she must have been 11 months , she came charging at me to play with her lead and I stupidly lifted it in the air , she flew through the air and knocked me unconcious in the park. Think I was only out for 30 secs or so but I was shaken. She was sitting there frightened licking my face.

She could also leap 6 ft fences till she was about 18 months and had fattened out LOL..

Once she got to about 2.5 years old she settled right down and was a joy to have, every visitor got kissed to death to our humour and to some of their annoyance.

Pam

aah pamela, i love boxers but have stuck to labs up to now.my friend has a boxer bitch and we take them all out together, and her favourite thing is to run round the park and then hurdle over my three labs.it's hilarious!!lol.

LOL Their legs are on springs I think :-)

Labs and Boxers I think are similar in their loving nature.

BFN Pam

hi Pamela
thanks for your reply. we used to have a german sheperd who used to chew everthing (she ate a wooden stool). as you can imagine my parents were at there wits end we only had parts of any wooden furniture left (she was nicknamed termite). the only way we stopped her was to put madras curry paste on door posts and doors. she got the message.
im looking forward to getting the pup. i imagine theres horror stories with all dogs in there youth. apart from my border collie who was as good as gold. im shocked how easy it was to train him. only time will tell with the boxer pup
em

Hi Emma,
I have come to the conclusion that I was very lucky but my last Boxer George never destroyed anything,he wouldn't have dreampt of jumping over anything and never so much as touched anything that wasn't his his whole life(after the initial puppy chewing).Untill I started doing a bit more research and talked to a few people when we started thinking about another one I thought that it must be a Boxer trait!!
I had read that they could jump over high fences and George loved to jump but never OVER anything.He was truly one of a kind but that said our new 10 week old puppy is bringing back lots of memories good and bad!I know our puppy will be a chew monster just to reset the balance!!
Hazel

our landlord at our local pub has done a survey and found that the is approx 4 boxers in the local area. i have also been told to chip the pup as they are a rare as rocking horse poo, locally.

Boxers can be reknowned chewers....
You have to have great sense of humour to own a Boxer :D
The oldest of my current pair never has been a chewer of non-doggy chewable
items. She loves her own dog chew toys and bones.
Her daughter is really mischievious and a chewer....you have to have eyes in the
back of your head where she's concerned (I've had a vet's visit where she got up
on a tall bookcase and pulled off my piriton tablets and ate them, they were on the 5th
shelf and we don't have children) She can undo the dog gate if the button has not clicked
into place properly, (That's why many Boxer owners door handles are the wrong way and lift
up instead of down, LOL).
A Boxer is a real people's dog they don't like being left on their own, they prefer to have companionship
and preferably human companionship to spoil them :)
I've always said to anyone that has a Boxer take them to obedience lessons as a puppy & if you
can do two courses, the puppy course and the next one up. You'll reap the rewards when the pup grows older
Trust me!! ;)
I've also known someone that has had an older Boxer got it a companion Boxer puppy who was good
initially, no chewing and they did 'brag' about their perfect puppy and then started to chew with avengance.
Poor lad ended up being rehomed as they couldn't cope with the chewing :(

kristine,
im intending to go to a couple of training classes a week hopefully move onto agility classes in time. mainly because he will be a big dog and obviously he would be a joy to own if trained.
ive also been warned the male boxers are very headstrong. (so am i).

So far Star has not chewed much. We have sprayed the wooden table legs with bitter bite and any wires that show. She has plenty of chewy toys and kongs. If she has to be left it is only for 2 hours max. We bought a crate for her to sleep in (and lock in if she turned out a chewer) and so far she has not been locked in. She is 5 months and has most of her adult teeth. I was expecting a dog that wrecked the house, did not sleep and did all the other things people warned us about. I think having 3 children before and then a boxer means you can cope with anything.

I would go for the boxer they are brilliant dogs and up for anything. The good outweighs the bad.

I was expecting mayhem with the arrival of Dylan, who is 8 weeks old, but I totally agree with you - having 3 kids before having a boxer pup means you are ready for anything! So far so good, no damage, he's an angel (touch wood, etc etc).

hi emma,
my mother owns a boxer called "scooby" and hes now 5yrs old,and over the years he has wrecked my mothers house,hes torn curtains down,chewed the brand new kitchen,swallowed mobile phones and remote controls to the video and t.v,chewed hole under her stairs and only noticed when she went to go up them and fell through them,and she got door knocked by the next door nieghbour and within minutes he had totaly ripped her stairs of the new carpet,and another day he had totaly dismantled the shower from the bathroom wall.
hes a nightmare but she loves him,but come to the end of her tether and is now seeking the help of an animal behaviorist.
jane.xx

My Boxer ate my sofa as a puppy and he does eat the most peculiar of things such as hair scrunches, vinyl, pebbles etc but it hasn't really been too much ogf a problem although it would appear his sons have developed his strange eating habits too!
Bec