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We try to get Napoleon to do shake and high fives with his right hand, but he is a total lefty. Everything, shake, high five he does with his left paw. We also do "two paws." I'll hold my 2 fingers down in a V, like an upside down peace sign and he'll give you his two front paws, normally on the...

Napoleon was snipped at about a year old. We adopted him with his manhood still intact, but he wasn't supposed to be released to us without it being done first. How they missed it, I don't know, but we took him to the vet and had it done. He is just as "aggressive" as he was, maybe only...

Congratulations on your soon to be new addition. He is so adorable in the pictures. I love boxer puppies. Napoleon was a rescue and we adopted him at about 1 year old. We don't have any puppy pictures of him because we don't know his background/story. I wish we had them so we could go back...

Good idea, I think we'll try that. I hadn't thought of him possibly smelling the treat on my hand instead of in my hand.

Napoleon knows his go to bed command very well. I honestly don't know how he learned it or when we taught it to him, but all my wife or I have to do is say go to bed and go near the treat jar and he runs up the stairs and sits in hig doggie bed. He of course gets rewarded when he gets into bed...

At one of Napoleon's vet visits last year, I had brought to the attention of my vet that Napoleon had a growth in one of his arm (paw) pits. The vet said it looked like a skin tag, but to keep an eye on it. If it grows or changes color to bring him back. Me, being the worrier I am, went back 2...

The thread about teaching your boxer high five as opposed to shake got me thinking of some other things we taught Napoleon with our hands. We taught him the "guess which hand" game. We take a small treat and show it to him. We then put our hands behind our back and switch the treat up among...

This is how we taught Napoleon as well. We taught him paw first with an open palm facing up. He was good at shake and literally learned it in 5 minutes. With high five, we held our hand a little higher up and with your palm facing him (instead of facing up). With shake, he puts his paw in your...

Napoleon has caught a few things out in the backyard over the past few years. First time he caught a bird that had fallen out of a tree and couldn't fly away. He got it in his mouth, but didn't chew or bite down on it. Just kinda kept it in his mouth. We were able to get him to drop it, put the...

Napoleon is allowed on the couches in the house and any of the extra beds in the house. He is however, not allowed in bed with mommy and daddy. He's too big and he kicks and snores and runs and barks in his sleep. When its bedtime for him, we go to the treat jar, say "go to bed" and he goes...

Hello, My name is George. My wife and I are from Long Island, NY. We adopted our boxer, Napoleon, in 2008. We were told he was around 1 year old when we adopted him and he is now 3 years old. He's snoring on the couch right now, so I'm taking care of the introduction. Looking forward to...