![]() ![]() This training will take time so make sure you practice this a few times a day for several days. Walk into the room and around the room slowly while giving him treats for the reinforcement. Enter the room with your boxer on a leash and have treats ready to positively reinforce the behavior. I would start by turning all your ceiling fans on very low, so that it moves very slowly. The experience is traumatic for him and he is probably experiencing anxiety about it. My boxer was afraid of our gate because one time it fell close to him. Boxers are finicky, the fan is movement that may have startled him when he was younger as you stated. ![]() So send us your stories, pictures, and videos of the quirkiest thing your boxer does!Įasy…don’t use the ceiling fans □ – just kidding. There is so much more we could add to this list. And stubborn they can be, for example- when they plant their feet and don’t want to go somewhere or run when they hear the word “bath”. This trait also makes them VERY headstrong and stubborn. During this time they often they tilt their head to the side, as if to say “wow I need to figure this out”. Their intelligence also makes boxers very curious and mischievous (counter surfing, digging through closets or lawns, etc). Another funny example: when my white boxer wants something (let’s say the ball that the other boxers has), she’ll go get something else (a rope) she knows is more desirable to the other boxer and play with it- he’ll drop the ball and grab the rope, and off she goes with the ball. One of my boxers learned how to open his crate as a puppy, ring a bell when he’s has to go outside, talk ( woo woo) at me when he wants something (ball under the couch) and even show me where things are when I can’t find them. They look at you as if they know what you are saying. If you’ve done any kind of training, you know it’s hard to fool your boxer. ![]() Keeping them occupied appropriately helps to limit and redirect their undesirable behaviors. I contribute these skills to their intelligence. I hear amazing stories about boxers all the time ( opening doors, doing tricks, escaping cages, swimming, redecorating). INTELLEGENCE: Boxers are smart and have great problem solving skills. Boxers love their family and are very good with children making fantastic playmates. Sadly this is the reason they end up in rescue programs or shelters. This is often when you hear the stories of boxers occupying themselves (eating couches, rugs, walls, shoes, etc.). They definitely want to be near their family and do not like to be left alone or isolated for long lengths of time. Even though they are typically 50-85 pounds, they are lap dogs and sit on your lap, head, feet, etc. as if they were 5 pounds. We joke all the time that if our boxers could, they would crawl under our skin. They want to be as close as physically possible. They somersault, do the kidney bean dance, and hop like bunnies on a regular basis.įAMILY: They are one of the family and they know it too. Boxers are ALWAYS puppies no matter how old. We laugh often about the look on the girls face when I told her his age. Someone once told us that our boxer would calm down at 3 years old, hahaha. My response was “he’s 4”. Boxers are very comical and thrive when their people watch, play, and laugh at them. They pretty much do anything to get the attention of others. They jump, bounce, chase, slide, wrestle, wiggle, dance, and entertain. They zip around and around and around with inexhaustible energy. Boxers make toys out of everyday things (shoes, couches, pools, each other, you). They simple go and go until they crash or you make them stop (kind of like a toddler). They fall into 3 main categories: Energy, Family, and Intelligence.ĮNERGY: I am also going to include excitable, animated, playful here too. The things other articles do not talk about. But we are talking about our QUIRKY boxers. They are good descriptive words and correct in terms of general personality traits. They are protectors with energy, courage, and a high tolerance for pain…”, bla bla bla. They crave human affection and are companion dogs. Typically, articles will say things such as “The boxer is a working dog that originated from Germany. Very few articles really portray the boxer personality the way we (as their family) can. They are silly, funny, loveable, naughty, loyal, energetic dogs. If you have ever opened your heart and home to a boxer you already know this fact. ![]()
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