Boxers...Dumb??? Untrainable???...

[frankokelly]

my boy is the smartest dog I have ever seen or owned.

He is actually building a vocabulary

Sit, down, stay, come, heel, no, hey, poopie time, go see, find it, chow time, good boy ( he sits for a treat ), walk ( u cant even say the word in front of him unless you are actually going to take him ), boxer rescue ( he jumped in my lap all sad when I said that )( that is where we got him ), boat, out, settle

every day he seems to be learning new words.

He even seems to snort and pant to communicate with us.

When he wants to do something he will snort, look at what he wants or wants to do, and then look at you

Very funny and very silly super dog.

We got him from a rescue 5 mos ago, and he really started to learn the words after he started getting the hang of obedience training. WHen he listens and does what we say good things happen to him

Frank Kelly and Boo Boo

 

[AUNatalie]

One of the boxer's traits is that they can be very stubborn. My Isabella has a short attention span adn may not always do what I want her to but that's just the breed. She is now 2 and 1/2 and is trained to do many things and can understand many things that we tell her. It just takes a lot of patience but they are definitely not stupid. Good Luck.
Isabella's Mom

 

[Slugger6969]

WAR EAGLE!

I dig your AUNatalie.

 

[AUNatalie]

Thanks!
WAR EAGLE to you.
My Isabella says the same!

 

[jaimie]

I think that this guy must be the stupid untrainable one! My brother took Brit out when she was 3 months old and in a matter of 15 minutes taught her a bunch of german commands that took his German Shepard over 2 weeks to accomplish. He couldn't believe how smart she was and still is. I wouldn't listen to this guy because obviously he has no idea what he is tallking about, and IMO he wasn't talking about boxers!:D :p


Jaimie

 

[Msboop]

Re: Eh.

Originally posted by Slugger6969
So he thinks Boxers are dumb and untrainable. Show him up. Whenever someone tells me something I can't do I grow more determined. Hell, I put a CDX on a BULLDOG! Sure it took me something like 25+ shows (ok, it was 32) but I did it despite the naysayers. He probably just "bred" for the money and wasn't worried, or didn't care, about developing a smarter line.

As far as the weather being yucky, why aren't you training in the house? There are all sorts of things to do inside. Sits and downs and waits before feeding. Recalls. Stands. Even one-step heelings. Plus you could work on trick training. I love the Dog Tricks for Dummies book. All this will develope his mind and keep him interested and get him even more bonded to you. Just remember short sessions and be sure to make it lots of fun.

We do train in the house but not on a lead, my house is not laid out so we can work on a lead. Victor always sits and waits for me to put his food down. He has never jumped for his meals,
( nothing I have taught him), just something he has always done.
We work on stay, sit, I still enforce the shake hands. He always hears' "off" ( the chair) so he knows that one. We do need to work on (lay)down. He doesn't want to lay down for me but we are working on it. I guess I could do the one-step heels that is better than nothing.
Thanks for all of the "postive " feed back.

 

[Jaelle]

Peneloppe was hard to train and to get motivated, until I use the right method!!!

With the choke, she didn't understand much, she had no attention, all she want's was doing anything else than training! (and now I understand why!)

Now, with clicker training, it's funny to see how she suddently became a genius!!!:D She knows well all her basic commands ( although needs a little work on heel), and she's a clown, she knows: don't touch, touch, fix, turn, spin, dance, give the paw, high five, bang, crawl, bark, cry, and some other practical things and agility commands...

Not to bad for a young two years old who seemed very hard to train because she had no attention and all she wanted was to play!!!

 

[kaine_02]

What a goober this guy is! Kaine is stubborn and has ADD :p but I understand that and work with it. He has learned tons since we got him and has his own habits that we didn't teach him (his pillow fluffing is my favorite). My first boxer was three when we got him and I was only like 12 and taught him all kinds of stuff. I agree w/ the short sessions. The hand signals seem to work too.

One think i think is kind of "neat" (for lack of a better word) is that we have one of the retractable leashes and Kaine is learning to heel just by the sound of the stop clicking when he gets to far. It's to the point now where all I have to do is make it click and he stops. And when he takes the leash all the way out he turns around and looks at me like "Hey...you comin' or what?":p Not really any advice, I just think it's funny.

Later
Jay, Amy, and Kaine