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Is this what my problem is? I've been trying to get Bowser (13 week old male) to stay outside by himself for a decent amount of time (half hour to an hour). When I go inside, he sits there at the end of his tie-out and barks at the house. He's fine being outside if someone's out there with...

Boxers have a bad reputation. People think they look scary. The first thing my mom said when I told her my wife and I are getting a boxer was something to the effect of "aren't those mean dogs? Why do you want one of those?" She thinks he's the cutest thing now when I send him pictures...

So what if the dog freaks out when you take the food away? If you don't give it back because she's freaking out, then you're giving her good reason to be freaking out - you don't give the food back. But then if you do give the food back, you're reinforcing the freaking out because you're...

It's called genetic memory.

Is one of them clearly dominant over the other, or are they pretty equal? Maybe this is an alpha establishment thing?

I don't have any useful information to pass on, but I'm pretty sure we need some pictures of this.

Thanks for the info. So maybe it would be appropriate to just go with the puppy formula and those recommendations here, since it's so much the same anyway?

Alright, so it's not necessarily important or even good to feed a puppy the puppy formula. Fine. So, I'm looking at Chicken Soup's website with their recommendations for how much to feed depending on weight, age, etc. Anyway, the recommendations for the same weight of dog differ for the puppy...

We'll be getting our new puppy, Bowser, next week. He'll be about 11 weeks old on the 26th, so he'll probably be a bit young for this one. Maybe another time, though. By the way, we're in Southwest Littleton (Ken Caryl), if anyone else is in the area.

Alright, I know this is a well-covered topic here, but I have a few questions that I don't think have been answered quite the way I'm looking for. First, my wife and I will be going to pick up our new boy Bowser in a week. He'll be 9 weeks old when we get him. We intend to crate train him...

Bowser at 6 weeks old.

Hey, everyone. My name is Patrick and my wife Jamie and I are currently in the process of looking for a boxer puppy. We've found a few backyard breeders so far, but I think we're on to a couple of really good breeders now and hopefully we can get a puppy with one of them in the spring. We're...