Recent content by abbybox

Half my salary spent on dog toys and she plays with a plastic cup. . .

Yes!! A sleepy dog is a good dog

Thanks to everybody who replied. I was really nervous at first about talking on this subject, figured I'd get animal control called to my house and my boxerworld account deleted. I'm glad there were so many people out there with constructive replies to my thread. I'm definitely feeling better...

You're right, if I didn't want responses about spanking children then I shouldn't have even brought it up. Hindsight 20/20. About Abby though, I only spanked her when I caught her in the act of urinating. I never beat her, but I am a big guy. I'm sure I'm intimidating to such a small dog...

Abby is four months old and for the first three of those I would generally pop her on her butt whenever I caught her peeing inside the house. It seemed to work at first because the accidents happened less frequently, and I thought the "OMG don't spank your dog!" people were crazy. After all, I...

Resolution!!! I decided to quit using the rental agency as the go between and contacted the home owner directly. He said his only concern was that the dog would bite somebody and he would be sued, so he could not allow big dogs on the property. I was so happy to hear this because my renter's...

I've been having to deal with my landlord's rental agency all day. When we moved in we were very specific about needing a house that would have NO restrictions on pets and even told them we would be getting a boxer for our family. We were told on numerous occasions that there were no...

New to the "boxer world". My boxer is fawn, 9wks old and oh so playful. Looking forward to learning all I can from these boards. Any advice people have for me is greatly appreciated. Thanks.