Recent content by Little Turk

we changed his food to innova evo and he's seemed to have cut down going for the other paws. After changing his food we embarrassingly remembered that he loves to eat meaty bone dog biscuits - according to the nutrition facts they're loaded with all the top suspects of allergies, so those are in...

X19er - no the vet hadn't mentioned that but maybe I'll look into that on his other feet. Jan - the vet said the way his swelling was wasn't indicative of allergies, because one paw had swollen and that had been it, nothing anywhere else on his body. We're gonna switch his food from Royal...

Our boxer is 1 year 2 months old. Great health aside from a slight heart murmur discovered a few months ago. He’s on a diet of the Royal Canin designed for boxers. He’s crypt orchid, and we recently had him neutered. On the day of the surgery his right paw swelled up to the size of baseball...

I understand that stuff, down a dog will easily be able to figure out. But when it comes to roll over you're gonna be investing some serious amounts of time in visual charades trying to get your dog to roll over on his own. Thats where I would think physically assisting them is key. As far...

When teaching your dog tricks in what order do you do the audible/visual signal and then the physical movement + treat? Up to this point I've taught my dog to shake, high five, lay down, crawl, sit, etc... My method has always been this, separately: 1. Say the command and make the...

Thanks for the info. So would you recommend that I start adding a little wet food to his diet or are there other things that I can add? Good to see his weight is in check. You can visibly see his ribs when he's outside running around so it had us thinking he was losing weight/ slowing...

We recently switched our 5 month old male Boxer Turk from a mix of wet/dry food to just dry canidae. He was eating approximately 1 can of wet food + 3 cups of dry food. Yet since switching to just dry he'll eat maybe 2 cups at most. He seems to have slowed down growing since doing so (weight...

Title probably sounds a bit harsher than I'd like but its the best way to describe it I think. I've been reading a bit about recall training and have been practicing with my 12 week old boxer lately. Inside he does very well, comes and then sits (though he comes at a cat walk speed and runs...

This is my first boxer dog and I'm having similar problems as you are. Biggest thing would be not to take him out when he whines. I put Turk in his crate at night and keep telling him "good night" over and over. Even getting him in the crate is a battle. I wouldn't recommend taking him out...

The cheerios is a good idea, I'll have to see whether he likes those or not. I looked on the little bag (Zuke's Mini Naturals bought from Petco) and they didn't give a feeding amount, just says that they're perfect for training. Thanks for the tip though :)

First time boxer owner, got him when he was 8 wks old. Beautiful fawn mahogany colored boxer. Lucky to find this forum, we already have a million questions. :)

I have a 9 week old boxer and am in the process of trying to housetrain/teach him simple commands (come, sit, no, his name, etc...) I bought a bag of tiny little peanut butter soft chew treats today and he loves them. I was teaching him the come command and after having 1 or 2 treats he knew...