[quote]Sxio wrote:
Cropped ears look disgusting. The dog looks mutilated to me.
Mine has had her tail done and even that is wrong enough.
I’d never do anything like that willingly to a dog of any age. [/quote]
Yeah dude I agree, cropping just doesn’t seem right.
Now that dog-shows don’t mark against uncropped boxers it just shouldn’t be done at all. There is no need.
TC, your pooch looks fat in that photo,what are you doing to him/her?
(kidding) I know the diet you’ve instituted and so forth…
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
That is prety impressive. Is he full grown or does he still have a way to go? Those mastif get humongus.
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full grown, 3 years old. i would have expected him to be bigger too, as mastiffs get to be about 30 inches at the withers and around 200lbs.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The next dog I get will be a boxer. The pic above is is the dog of a friend of mine. That dog has a better personality than many people I know. It pisses me off that where I live right now doesn’t allow pets.
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cant go wrong with a boxer prof., my kids and their mom back in bama have a 65lb brindle female who has been one of the best pets i have ever had. she sleeps with my girls every night, and is gentle and playful with them, and very protective. just be warned that boxers have a strong prey drive, and often do not get along with smaller dogs, and they are famous for cat chasing/hating, LOL.
[quote]rosheem wrote:
Thrower, consider yourself lucky for finding Joker…I have a boxer/mastiff and he looks exactly like yours. He’s been a great buddy for the whole family for almost 13 years now. He’s great with people…energetic when you want him to be, pretty laid-back the rest of the time.
We didn’t get him early enough to socialize him to other dogs, so we can’t take him to a dog park or anything like that. He goes absolutely nuts and tries to kill the other dogs. Looks like you might be in the same boat.
Sounds like you found a good one![/quote]
thats very interesting! looks just like mine hmmm? i would have expected a boxer mastiff mix to have more of a bulldog face(smashed in and droopy) and to be bigger. funny how the genetic dice get thrown and what results. he is actually shorter than an average boxer, which is why at only 90lbs he seems so damn THICK!
from the front, his face looks a lot like the pit-bull atomic dog posted. makes me wonder if when developing the pit bull breed if they used boxers and mastiffs???
magnus who posts here every now and then is a sort of pit bull expert. i wonder if he knows.
[quote]Colombian wrote:
Bulldog rule[/quote]
hahaha! thats a great pic!
That is one ugly animal. Joker looks nice, though. He looks the way a dog should look. I hope you have heaps of fun with him and the kids.
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
rosheem wrote:
Thrower, consider yourself lucky for finding Joker…I have a boxer/mastiff and he looks exactly like yours. He’s been a great buddy for the whole family for almost 13 years now. He’s great with people…energetic when you want him to be, pretty laid-back the rest of the time.
We didn’t get him early enough to socialize him to other dogs, so we can’t take him to a dog park or anything like that. He goes absolutely nuts and tries to kill the other dogs. Looks like you might be in the same boat.
Sounds like you found a good one!
thats very interesting! looks just like mine hmmm? i would have expected a boxer mastiff mix to have more of a bulldog face(smashed in and droopy) and to be bigger. funny how the genetic dice get thrown and what results. he is actually shorter than an average boxer, which is why at only 90lbs he seems so damn THICK!
from the front, his face looks a lot like the pit-bull atomic dog posted. makes me wonder if when developing the pit bull breed if they used boxers and mastiffs???
magnus who posts here every now and then is a sort of pit bull expert. i wonder if he knows.[/quote]
Pit bulls are the result of crossing the old style english bulldogge with the now extinct white terrier, with the goal of creating a dog with the strength & ferocity of the bulldogge & the speed & tenacity of the terrier, originally bred in Staffordshire england hence the staffordshire bull terrier, Americans wanted a larger dog, so bred for size & called it a pit bull (AKC calls it American Staffordshire terrier[all three are now distinct seperate breeds]). Bulldogs, Boxers, & Mastiff’s are all considered Mastiff breeds & are thought to have a common ancester, the oldest living mastiff breed is the Tibetan Mastiff, most likely very close to the original.
bump!
i have received a few PM’s asking about boxers as a breed, positive and negatives, so i thought i would post a recent reply here.
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positives:
very smart, very trainable, and very very good with children.
protective and playful and loyal.
very few congenital problems(some pure breeds have tons)’
maintenance free coat
negatives:
strong prey drive, cant be off leash in “mixed” company, as they will chase down and kill cats and other small furry things(small dogs are safe though)
can be loud and somewhat aggressive to strangers in their territory(your house)
in other words they bark quite a bit at the door/fence when they don’t know who is there.
oh, FYI, boxers love to wrestle and play fight. when they do, they snarl and growl, and can sound very vicious, and seems like they are serious. but it is just play, i would wrestle with my boxer every day, and my hand and arm would be in her jaws all the time, NEVER broke the skin once.
want a good time? get on all fours on the living room floor with your boxer, start growling at him/her and pawing with your hands and arms, the boxer will go crazy and try to wrestle you with his/her arms, my kids loved to watch this, it was hilarious! they would come and beg me to “wrestle with Georgia” for there entertainment all the time. it was better than Nickelodeon to them i swear! LOL "
I used to raise Boxers. My male died on October 16th, 2000. After 8 weeks I decided I wanted another Boxer. They are so great with kids. I drove about 100 miles and bought a male, born 3 day prior to the loss of my dog. When I went through the paper work I discovered I had bought the grandson(?) of my male and female. Same blood line.
His name is Harley’s Ace.
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
negatives:
strong prey drive, cant be off leash in “mixed” company, as they will chase down and kill cats and other small furry things(small dogs are safe though)
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I’ve had boxers for 10 years now and they kick arse.
However, they will kill even bigger things if they feel threatened. Some fuckwit thought it would be funny to catch a kangaroo and throw it over a random fence. My house just happened to be on the other side of that random fence.
I was away at the time and I came home to find my dog limping, cut and very sore standing sheepishly over a dead 5 foot kangaroo.
I couldn’t believe that she was able to kill a roo coz they are tough animals and my boxer is a runt.
So they can kill other furry things. They don’t have to be small. Luckily the taste for blood never eventuated as the ass whipping she received probably negated any satisfaction she received from the kill.
My friend had a boxer walk to his front porch and it’s the funniest animal I’ve ever encountered. She never barks, goes crazy when I “meow”, loves to play, handshakes, attacks all insects, insanely curious about everything. I love that dog.
[quote]G.O.A.T wrote:
heavythrower wrote:
negatives:
strong prey drive, cant be off leash in “mixed” company, as they will chase down and kill cats and other small furry things(small dogs are safe though)
I’ve had boxers for 10 years now and they kick arse.
However, they will kill even bigger things if they feel threatened. Some fuckwit thought it would be funny to catch a kangaroo and throw it over a random fence. My house just happened to be on the other side of that random fence.
I was away at the time and I came home to find my dog limping, cut and very sore standing sheepishly over a dead 5 foot kangaroo.
I couldn’t believe that she was able to kill a roo coz they are tough animals and my boxer is a runt.
So they can kill other furry things. They don’t have to be small. Luckily the taste for blood never eventuated as the ass whipping she received probably negated any satisfaction she received from the kill.
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Why’d you beat her?
[quote]oboffill wrote:
Why’d you beat her?[/quote]
The roo gave it a beating. Not me.
TC,
I remember hearing about some jurisdiction around Denver, CO about pitbulls being illegal to keep as pets. I’m assuming you’re down in C-Springs - does this ordinance extend all the way down there too?
I know if I had a pit- and they suddenly “outlawed” them, fuck that, I wouldn’t get rid of my dog.
Here is my Boxer, Dex, he is 4. He still is hyperactive, he’s not tough at all though, he seems scary but cats batter him.
Another.
[quote]samky wrote:
I used to raise Boxers. My male died on October 16th, 2000. After 8 weeks I decided I wanted another Boxer. They are so great with kids. I drove about 100 miles and bought a male, born 3 day prior to the loss of my dog. When I went through the paper work I discovered I had bought the grandson(?) of my male and female. Same blood line. [/quote]
that is a good looking dog. BIG for a boxer too it seems, bout how much does he weigh?
BTW, dog threads rule.
[quote]G.O.A.T wrote:
heavythrower wrote:
negatives:
strong prey drive, cant be off leash in “mixed” company, as they will chase down and kill cats and other small furry things(small dogs are safe though)
I’ve had boxers for 10 years now and they kick arse.
However, they will kill even bigger things if they feel threatened. Some fuckwit thought it would be funny to catch a kangaroo and throw it over a random fence. My house just happened to be on the other side of that random fence.
I was away at the time and I came home to find my dog limping, cut and very sore standing sheepishly over a dead 5 foot kangaroo.
I couldn’t believe that she was able to kill a roo coz they are tough animals and my boxer is a runt.
So they can kill other furry things. They don’t have to be small. Luckily the taste for blood never eventuated as the ass whipping she received probably negated any satisfaction she received from the kill.
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that story is crazy! that was a fucked up thing to do whoever did it. still, i am not surprised that she took down a roo, they were used to hunt boars in Europe i believe.
another member of this forum, Magnus, is sort of a pit-bull expert, and told a story of a 4-050lb pit killing a 1200 lb bull by biting it by the throat and holding of for some ungodly amount of time(like nearly an hour or so, don’t quote me though)until it suffocated. crazy.
yep that sounds like a boxer alright. playful, athletic, etc.
the attacking insects thing is funny as hell.