I've learned a lot about Boxer dogs in the past few weeks. They have some behaviours that are unique to their breed - and that are pretty funny too.
For instance, there's the 'Boxer Bounce' as I like to call it. The way Gracie jumps...it's almost like she's on springs and is bouncing all over the place. She does this when she's playing with us and when she's happy to see someone.
She's got this face that I simply cannot resist. She'll look at me with her big brown eyes and smushed up little snout and no matter what she's done I'm simply not able to be irritated with her. I'm not the only one who she has this affect on; Dave and the kids feel the same way.
Then there's my favorite - 'beaning'. When Boxers are happy, the make themselves into a semi circlular kidney bean shape. Gracie turns her head and her tail end so that they almost meet each other and she wags her little stump so hard she about falls over. She does this 'beaning' whenever she's happy, which is pretty much all the time. She does it when I let her out of her crate in the morning, when Dave comes home from work, when the kids come home from school and when I come home from being gone somewhere. It's the cutest thing, and it about makes my heart melt whenever she does it.
I've got a wiener-dawg and a beaner-dawg!