DH grew up on a farm, so he has always been a dog lover. Getting boxers, however was my idea. Just after we were married, we saw a boxer puppy in the paper in Calgary while we were staying at his aunt's home for thanksgiving. I wanted to go and see her, but he said we could go look, but we aren't coming home with a dog. His brother just laughed saying nobody in the family has ever gone to look at a dog and come home empty handed. DH reply was "Well, you're going to see it today". Needless to say, the joke was on him because Brittney was with us for eleven wonderful years, and made a total BOXER NUT out of DH. It took a lot of convincing to get him to agree to getting Hemi the BT. He loves Hemi too, but Boxers are certainly his favorite by far. They just have that effect on people.