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Scout will be three years old in November and he weighs 85 pounds. Belle is nine weeks old and weighs about seven pounds-though she is growing like kudzu.

My husband and I both work long hours-he's gone 10 hours a day five days a week and I'm gone 14 hours a day three days a week. The days that we both work we pay a dog walker to take our pups out for half an hour and play with them. We keep the 3 year old crated-he loves his crate and I just...

Well...after trying several different names that were already in use I thought hmmmm, I am a people nurse and I have two boxers both of which take up a lot of my time so I'll be Boxernurse. And then immediately after it was accepted I thought "oh no! People are going to think that I am some...

Thank you, I was trying to come up with some unique phrase that could be the release. I like "all right" much better than my husband's suggestion of something silly like "yellow" or "do-dah" but that would make me laugh for her to jump up from her sit when I said "do-dah"....hmmmm

Thanks, I'll try mentioning names with the command, Belle (the 8 week old) is still so young that she is just now learning her name. I was trying to think of a differnet release word for her but I couldn't come up with any.

I am starting to train my second boxer (8wks old) and I was wondering if everyone else had the same release command for both boxers. While working with the younger one I put my older one in a down stay. His release command is "okay" and when I use "okay" to release the younger one from her sit...

Hi from South Carolina, I have two boxers, Scout, a 2 year old brindle male (neutered) and my husband and I just got an 8 week old fawn female boxer, Belle. We've never owned two dogs at the same time before so I look forward to learning training ideas and just general boxer stuff. Thanks...