Oscar

10/25 Oscar's doing really good. He loves his crate, it's his favorite place to sleep now. His personality really comes out when he's "playing" with his big chew bone which he does instead of chewing on it. He tosses it around, hits it with his paws, pounces at it, too funny! He loves to fetch a tennis ball and is pretty good about giving it back with a lot of praise. This is great exercise for him too! I'd have to say his absolute favorite thing to do is go for a ride in the car. He's really smart and learns quickly his obedience training. Things like sitting and waiting calmly before going out the door and before getting in the car (that's a tough one for him because he gets so excited, but he learns fast!), give a paw and down, loose leash walking, stay, leave it and to come to his name (he could do better on that one, a work in progress, especially if there's distractions, lol). He's learning roll over. His big challenge still is leash aggression towards other dogs when we're out walking. I haven't been able to find a way to get him beyond that. All in all, he's a great dog, would make a fantastic companion for anyone. Due to his physical strength, I'd say he's better suited to an adult environment, I've only seen him around one child (a 9 yr. old) and he was perfectly fine with her but she could never have handled him. He's not a barker, which to me is a really good thing. He still seems to tire fairly easily when exercising. He's almost finished with his ear mite medication, 2 more days of that, I'm sure he'll be happy when that's over. He goes to the vet again on Nov. 2 for the boosters he's due for.

He's a real love to have in the house. He doesn't do anything destructive, he eats, he goes for his walk, he sleeps, he does some outside play/training, he sleeps some more, he eats again, he goes for another walk, he sleeps some more, he does some inside play/training, and he sleeeeeeeeeps for the night haha

10/9 He's doing great here at his foster home. Making himself right at home. He is a very sweet boy. I'm walking him 3 times a day and he's getting better and better at loose leash walking. The one thing I'm not having success with is leash aggression. There's a couple of houses we walk by where there's dogs outside sometimes (they must have been trained with invisible fence because they come right up to the edge of the road, but no further) and these dogs always come running up towards us barking like crazy which sets Oscar off as you can imagine. He is quite the powerful dog. I will continue to work with him on this.

Oscar is a handsome fawn boxer that is coming to us from a local shelter. He needs a foster/adoptive home ASAP so we can get him out of the shelter. Oscar would do best in a home that has boxer experience, he can be a little protective of his home and was also protective of the little kids in his last home so he would probably be placed in a home without small kids, with an owner that will provide Oscar with leadership so he doesn't feel the need to protect his pack. He will also need a home that provides him with plenty of regular exercise and a high quality diet as he does need to drop some weight.

No cats for Oscar. He has lived with other dogs in the past but will sometimes show leash aggression towards strange dogs so he will need some work on this. He is housebroken and crate trained.

The shelter environment is very stressful for most dogs and Oscar is no exception to that so we want to get him in a home environment as soon as we can. If you are interested in fostering or adopting Oscar please contact us.