Hello, I’m Becky!

The first thing you will notice about me is my beautiful light brown eyes. Then you will notice I have the most expressive face! You know right away when I’m happy, curious or scared. When I perk up my ears and cock my head, my foster parents tell me I’m just adorable. My foster parents keep telling me I’m a really good girl, since they say it to me all the time I guess I am!

My beauty is au natural; I’m neither cropped nor docked. I’m also slightly smaller than the average Boxer. So if you are looking for an easy going Boxer that would be comfortable in a smaller home or apartment, look at me! I may be just what you are looking for.

I’m really easy going around people I have not met a person that I did not like. My foster family has a 9 year old boy and I sleep with him nearly every night and it makes me happy to be able to be next to someone at night. My favorite thing to do is curl up in my foster parents chair easy chair, put my head in their lap and have them pet me, which is pure heaven!

My foster parents think I would really do well in a family with children over the age of 5. I’m very easy-going and a generally happy and friendly Boxer. When I was brought home from the shelter, I had some health problems from being neglected and not having my female problems taken care of. All of that has been taken care of by my foster family and I’m 100% healthy and ready to go to my forever home.

My foster family believes that I was an outside Boxer in my former life. My last owners didn’t do much for me; they didn’t bother to train me on basic commands and much to my foster family’s surprise, they needed to house train me all over again. I’m learning (or re-learning) and I’m getting there. I can sit and lay and I’m working on stay and being really good on a lead. A basic obedience class would be a great way for us to bond and I can show you how eager I am to please you and how smart I am!

I stay in my crate during the day so I/m used to being in the crate for 6-8 hours a day and I’m getting to the point where I’ll trot right in the crate for my foster parents. I really do not like the crate al that much but once I’m in, I’m OK with it since it’s part of my daily routine now.. Please don’t crate me at night when you go to bed, I will get very upset and howl and cry for quite some time. All I want is to sleep with my family, so if you put a dog bed in the bedroom with you I’ll happily curl up and fall asleep when it’s time for bed.

My foster family takes me on lots of car rides and in the beginning I was very apprehensive about the car since my last owners apparently never took me anywhere. Now I really, really, like car rides and I hop right in and enjoy the ride! I’m a bit dog aggressive to dogs I don’t know so I need slow introductions. When I first met my foster brother and sister I was a bit crabby towards them because I wasn’t feeling very well but as I started getting better I realized how great they are and now I just love them. My foster Boxer sister and I are inseparable now and we play all the time, share our food and water, and chew on the same bone at the same time. So with the right match, I can get along with another dog just fine – that is, after I get to know them.

I have lived a lonely and hard life, harder than I should have endured. But I’m a happy girl and even though I had been in a lot of pain, my foster family had noticed that I always had a smile for them and I’m always so happy to see them. My Boxer sprit has not been broken and I long to be an indoor Boxer, to have a family that I can love with all my heart, to have someone I can lay down next to at night, to be their companion, best friend and protector.