- Boxers are a bright, energetic and playful breed and tend to be very good with children.
- They are active and incredibly strong dogs and require adequate exercise to prevent boredom-associated behaviors such as chewing, digging, or licking.
- They have earned a slight reputation of being "headstrong," which can be related to inappropriate obedience training.
- The Boxer by nature is not an aggressive or vicious breed but, when provoked, is a formidable guardian of any family or home and, like all dogs, requires socialization.
- Boxers are generally patient with smaller dogs and puppies, but difficulties with larger adult dogs, especially those of the same sex, may occur.
- More severe fighting can also occur among female boxers.Boxers are generally more comfortable with companionship, in either human or canine form.
- Developed in Germany, the Boxer is a breed of stocky, large size, short-haired dog.
- The coat is smooth and fawn, brindled, white, or even reverse brindledwith or without white markings.
- Boxers have broad short skulls, have a square muzzle, very strong jaws, powerful bite ideal for hanging on to large prey
- The Boxer was bred from the English Bulldog and the now extinct Bullenbeisser and is part of the Molosser group.
- Boxers were first exhibited in a dog show for St. Bernards at Munich in 1895, the first Boxer club being founded the next year.
- Based on 2009 American Kennel Club statistics, Boxers are the sixth most popular breed of dog in the United States for the third year in a row—moving up in 2007 from the seventh spot, which they'd held since 2002.
