Recent content by tengles

So I look at your pictures and I look at my girl Sheba and she is so small. I have also had others tell me she looks like a young puppy, but she is at least a year when you look at her teeth. I have adopted her so I do not know her exact age. So how can get her bigger and looking healthier? I...

I also like Ember.

all this makes me giggle. After reading these posts and just picturing in my mind all the boxers and how they get into "trouble" when left alone. Sheba is my first boxer and I have been tearing my hair out that I can not even leave the room for a few minutes to where she can not find me. She...

I also have this problem, I am going to try a squirt from a water bottle?

we have a crate and I put her in for an hour, took her out and she went outside, gave her a treat, giving her a hour out of crate and then will put her back in if she does not ge when I take her out. This is what I have done in the past with my dogs. I am using words like "potty" and "kennel"...

I am a new owner to the breed and I had heard that boxers were bred to have down syndrom. Is this true? Please add some other interesting facts/things about the boxer breed!! Thanks

I have not gotten the crate yet getting one tomorrow. will be trying the tether and the hour thing. She does hold it at night so I do not think that I will have to take her out at night every hour. Thanks!!

I have had dogs that were older and I had to housebreak using a kennel in the past. But now I have a boxer that is about one year old that needs to get housebroken. She has only been with us for a few days and it is very clear that she is not housebroken. So I am planning on using a crate but...

gentle leader after reading this I went and bought a gentle leader. It works great and she likes it too. Thanks! tengles

so my husband finally let me get a dog. My husbands uncle was getting rid of a boxer. She is about 1, brindle and although a bit skinny she is gorgeous to me. She was named SheRa but I am calling her Sheba. I have owned/fostered pit bulls and owned an American Bulldog in a time long ago. but...