• Drooling – Some a little and others a lot.
• Snoring – Some a little others should sleep in the other room
• Intelligent – Boxers are very smart and learn fast. They require short, positive and consistent training.
• Stubborn – Strong willed and independent.
• Flatulent – Boxers fart, some a little others a lot, all stink.
• Playful and Energetic – Most boxers need at least an hour of your time a day.
• Human oriented – Boxers love people, and love to be around their owners.

• Playful – Boxers are play machines, they are always in the mood.
• Protective – Boxers can be very protective of their pack, human family.
• Active – Boxers are always willing to get out and about, very high energy.
• Mischievous - If one does not keep a boxer active, one will find the mischievous side of their boxer
• Slow to grow old – Boxers are puppies to old age, playful and full of life.
• Loyal – Boxers will often be found following owners around, like a second shadow.
• Affectionate – Boxers love to love and be loved.
• Aggressive if threatened – We have known boxers at early ages to defend and protect themselves and others.

Adult Boxers will need at least one (1) hour of exercise and interaction daily, fit boxers can handle 2 or 3 hours of activity, but do not force them.

Puppies start with 15 to 20 minutes of exercise and interaction and work up, let the puppy tell you, but never push a puppy.

Simple answer, yes. They do shed, not as bad as some breeds, yet a little more than others. I would say Boxers are medium shedders. It’s not normally difficult to keep up with through brushing once a week.

Boxers are fairly easy to care for. Brushing them once a week helps keep shedding under control and they only need a bath once or twice a year or as needed when they get into something. As far as nail trimming goes, this is a once a week to once every two weeks thing and if started young it’s much easier in the later years. Due to a boxers short hair they do not need hair trimming at all.

They are puppies at heart and play even in to their old age. However they will sleep and lay around too, as long as they are getting enough exercise. Boxers are very much the puppy as middle aged dogs.

Caution should be taken any time kids and dogs are together, however boxers are known to be wonderful with kids. It is imperative that boxers are properly socialized. They must be from puppies up exposed to people, young and old, other pets, noises and situations. Most boxers are great with kids, love kids and love to play with kids, however smaller children make not do well with the energy level and as a boxer grows the boxer could inadvertently knock a child down. Puppies are still learning and will play rough and give exploratory bites. Our rule is simple; puppies and toddler ages down do not go together. Puppies and school aged children will do ok with supervision. Best time for a child to have a boxer is 10 years old and up, they can play together and become best of friends. That said with training a boxer can learn to be "good” around any age. Properly supervised and train boxers are not a threat to any child whatsoever. Don’t forget to train the children on how to be around your boxer, or any animal for that matter.

Boxers need to learn to be with other pets and just like kids this is a learning process for both pets. Never confine pets in closed in areas, and never just let them learn to get along, start slow, with a fence between them, and then at the ends of leads. Once they are comfortable, let them grow from there.