Hi everyone! I have a 1-year-old male Boxer, and I’m struggling with some behaviors that have gotten much worse since adolescence/puberty.

on walks: He suddenly jumps up at me and grabs and pulls my clothes, sometimes seemingly out of nowhere. When this happens, I tie his leash to something and wait around 5–10 minutes for him to calm down before continuing the walk. The problem is that he often starts doing it again shortly after we continue, so I sometimes have to repeat this several times during one walk. I’m not sure if this is the right way to handle it or what else I should try. I already tried being louder or just ignoring him, making him sit down etc but nothing helps. Our old dog trainer told me this thing with the leash but I’m not sure it’s helping and it’s taking up so much of our time. It really ruins all the walks with him.
Also, he does this mainly just with me. Not so much with my brother or mother, idk if he just doesn’t respect me as much?

With other dogs: He gets extremely excited during play, and won’t listen to anything anymore, I can’t call him back and he struggles to respect other dogs’ boundaries. He keeps chasing them even when they try to get away or show that they’ve had enough. He is not aggressive, he never attacks anyone but he just doesn’t stop. When we then wanna grab him, he jumps away. In my mums area there are some dogs that love playing with him, but in my area there are mainly tiny dogs or dogs that don’t have as much energy, so I don’t feel safe letting him play since he won’t listen anymore. His recall is so unreliable that I can’t safely trust him off-leash. Before this started, he was well trained and listened better and has always played with many dogs, so now I always feel bad for him if I walk past the dog park. In my mums area, a woman (she claimed she was a dog trainer) told us that this is dominant behaviour and that he is playing also with other dogs too dominant.

I will try to hire a dog trainer again to handle this professionally, because he is a very sweet and intelligent dog. At home he is calm and loves cuddling and as said, he never attacked any other dog, but I’m scared that this will turn into aggressive behaviour when he is older.

Does anyone else ever experience this, especially the jumping and biting in clothes during walks? I’ve never seen any other dog do this and I feel a bit alone with this problem.

We’ve also had another boxer before him, but she was a girl and I can’t remember her acting like this ever.
I’d really appreciate any advice!

Took 3,5 years

Hi there! I am a vet tech and I got a surrendered 2 day old Boxer mix puppy from my clinic!

Little bit of insight, the clients did not feel adequately prepared to take on the responsibility for a 2 day old puppy since mom had passed, I offered to take her on despite it being my first bottle baby ever! She was legally surrendered to me and my clients were allowed to grieve the loss of their beloved animal🩵
She is 5 weeks old almost 6! (10/26/26)
Im really curious to see what dad was!
Her pervious owner stated that mom was a full red boxer with papers but they had no clue what dad was, we did do a dna test and are awaiting the results.
Thanks for tuning into her story 🩵

Yes he did get some 🥰

At home sick trying to watch TV but Twix has other plans. She knows I have laryngitis and can't say no.

When he is on-leash, he fears getting his paws wet and will do anything to avoid it.

Yet once he is off-leash in nature, every puddle becomes a requirement.

I made a quick video with a dramatic touch.

Does anyone have similar experience or advice? My 4-year-old Boxer got lab results showing creatinine at 1190 and urea off the charts (unmeasurable). After a week of antibiotics and IV fluids, creatinine dropped to 630, but urea is still off the charts (the machine measures up to 35). He is still eating and drinking normally and is in good spirits. The Leishmania test came back negative
Yesterday during the ultrasound, we discovered that it is chronic, likely congenital kidney failure, (Note: Creatinine 880 µmol/L is \~10 mg/dL in US units, Urea 36 mmol/L is \~100 mg/dL BUN)."