No he is not a Pit

[boxerborn]

About a week ago, we were taking Rocky to the dog park when we passed a car show and decided to walk around. We took Rocky out with us and had several people tell us "Oh, what a beautiful BOXER."
We noticed another guy that had a boxer, so we walked Rocky over there so he could see(smell) it. The owner was a little leary about us having Rocky around his dog (all Rocky was doing was kidney beaning like crazy), so after we asked the usual "how old is she, how much does she weigh, and commenting on how well behaved she was." the guy asked us "Is he a PIT?"
Ok our dog looks exactly like his, other than Rocky was a little bigger and he is brindle, unlike this guys fawn. I get this a lot from people, but I never expected it from a boxer owner.

Angela
Mom to Rocky 6 mths and a new furbaby ZayDee 8 weeks

 

[jenniemitchell]

Strangely enough, I've had a couple of ignorant people ask the same of D. (a fawn). It might be the shape of Boxers' heads, or just the sleek body and size...all I know is it's O.K. by me if they stay away from my baby!

 

[Sugar Ray's Mom]

:( I've had this happen with my dark, dark brindle baby girl. She is small (45 lbs.) and I had a mother of a toddler steer away saying we don't play with pit bulls. Fortunately, her friend corrected her and pointed out that it was a beautiful example of a dark brindle boxer.

Fawn boxers are a lot more popular, and I think that people who don't know the breed aren't aware that there is a variety of coloring. As Avalon, the breeder, told me when I said I wanted a fawn dog, but my husband picked the dark brindle bitch, "love comes in all colors"!!!

By the way, I get alot more compliments on her good looks and unique coloring than I do run ins with the misinformed. :D :D :D

 

[Arachnopunks]

Wow, your Rocky sure could pass as out Bella at first glance, right down to the white on the feet. We have been asked if Bella was a pit a few times. Once at the Dog beach by a couple who had a pit puppy. I agree, most people associate brindle coloring with Pit Bulls or even Great Danes and not so much boxers. My mother didn't know that boxers came in brindle until we told her before we got Bella.

Needless to say, I think Rocky is beautiful!!!

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[Scrapper's Mom]

Are you saying an owner of another BOXER failed to recognize your brindle baby as a Boxer and thought he was a Pitbull? Incredible.

 

[mymax]

When Max was about four-five months I took him to a local outdoor fleamarket. I thought it would be good socialization for him. Everyone loved him but I did get a few people ask (accusingly) "is that a pit?" I replied in a friendly manner but then one lady asked if I was sure. Can you imagine! I even had one guy tell me I was wrong....what an idiot....and here I was trying to be friendly, educate. Now that MAX is bigger there's been no accusations.....MyMax


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Denise mom to Max. six month old dark brindle boy with natural ears.

 

[boazdad]

The MOST random thing I ever got about Boaz, was a woman who asked if she could pet him and while he was giving her lots of kisses she laughed and said, "I just LOVE Saint Bernards!" I thought that was pretty funny. Now, had she had a boxer of her own, I would have died!

Do you also get, "Oh, look at the little boxer mix!"? That's my favorite:rolleyes:

 

[Kim Y]

We get this question all the time with Oscar. In fact, we had him at the state park just a down the road. We were spending the day walking the trails, climbing dunes, and me playing with my camera. Oscar was the perfect gentleman.

Unfortunately, the entire day was spent with people running from us, walking a huge circle around us (we always put Oscar in a sit stay when being approached to reinforce the no jumping ), and then.....grrrrr.....as always the question "is that a pit?"

One idiot in particular----I was photographing the trail ahead and Steve and Oscar were standing a bit behind me waiting for me to finish. I could hear people ahead on the trail. The man remarked "Yup, sure is!" in an angry tone. As they approached, he looked at us and in a very nasty tone said "Ahhhh...Staffordshire Terrier" Mind you, Oscar is being the perfect gentleman.....sitting calming with Steve. My reply---NO....This is a boxer. Then the guy had the nerve to remark nastily to me "Never heard/seen a boxer THAT color before" (in the tone that I was BSing him and of course he knew all about dogs). So what if he was a pit? Oscar wasn't doing anything but sitting nicely. All the other dogs we encountered that day were running rampant through the trails (without a leash which is against state law), jumping people, etc.

I waited for them to pass and then asked calmly "Hey, can you turn around? I want to snap your picture. I don't have a photo of a real a$$hole yet" Sorry about my phrasing but I was very upset at this point. We/Oscar did nothing to warrant this. No dog, pit or not, deserves these unwarranted remarks. It's these very behaviors/actions by a member of my husband's family that put Oscar through hell this past summer only in the course of 10-15 minutes that is forever ingrained in my dog. I have very little patience with racism, homophobia, dogophobia, etc. Can you tell at my wit's end with this?

On a brighter note--we did have a handful of people that knew what breed Oscar was, asked if they could pet him, and were very kind. It's still tough to make up for the idiots though. :(

Geez, didn't mean to rant. :::stepping off my soapbox:::

 

[Trish727]

All I can is Uneducated!!!!!!

Every intelligent boxer I know can "recognize" :D

 

[Scrapper's Mom]

I think "pitbull" is the mythic beast of dogdom. They have gotten such bad publicity, or at least when they've been involved in an attack, it's given a lot of news, so that everyone "knows" they are dangerous. The problem is, no one puts up a picture of a pitbull and points out their defining features. So people think, "hmmm, pitbulls have strong jaws... because they just bite and don't let go..." So, when they see our babies, whose most obvious feature is their undershot jaw, the uneducated and ignorant make the connection in their head. Not trying to excuse this ignorance, just explain my own theory why people mistake our sweet babies for pitbulls.

On a nice note, I was walking Scrapper the other day and a man holding his little baby with his family out by the street said, "What a NICE Boxer! Mom, look at the beautiful Boxer!" That made my day!