Andy

I wanted to let everyone at LBSR know that Jack (Andy) is doing great. Jon and I adopted him in December and he is an absolute joy. Every day I spend with him I cannot help but feel extremely lucky that we were the ones to take him home. He is an absolute charmer and all of our family and friends love him. We recently moved into town and two of our next door neighbors volunteer themselves to babysit him any time we need a helping hand. We haven't taken them up on it but it just what happens when people meet Jack. I am so glad that Jon decided that he wanted his first dog to be a boxer. Jon and I love Jack! We love that his ears flop on his head and we love how his tongue sticks out of his mouth because it just doesn't quite fit. I love that he has become good friends with one of my cats and is nice to the other cat even though she doesn't quite like him. He was very interested in them at first but quickly became friends with Una and seems to have developed an understanding with Sadie. She just doesn't understand that he wants to play. He loves to go for runs and walks but he is just as happy to run around our living room with his favorite hedgehog squeak toy or his green kong (he loves them equally). He loves to sleep on the couch and curls up next Jon or I before setting off to the other end of the couch where he can have his own pillow, if he can lay on three pillows even better in his book. You will see in one of the pictures that I sent that he is laying on my faux fur blanket. I call this his "it's a hard life" picture, but he deserves all the pampering and love possible! Jack is learning to become my running buddy. He was already fantastic on walks but seemed to think it was okay to take off full tilt if we started running. We have gotten the jog command down and I am still working on the fast command for those moments that I want to run fast. We go for 1-3 mile runs depending on the heat and he loves it. I have to be careful not to let him go full tilt and we stop for water at the doggie stations so that he doesn't overheat. One of my good friends that now lives in Denton recently came to visit Jon and I. She and her husband were so impressed with Jack's personality and his good manners that when they returned to Denton they decided a to adopt a boxer mix 4 month old puppy. They had already decided that they would be getting a friend for their rottweiler and once they met Jack it had to be a boxer! One of the reasons that we were all impressed was how well he behaved with their six month old daughter who absolutely fell in love with him. They had her playing on the floor and Jack was always careful to step around her, of course there was always one of us on the floor near the baby just in case. I had read that boxers are good with children and I am very happy to say that our Jack fits the breed standard in that respect. I am sending you a bunch of pictures for you and the rest of the wonderful LBSR volunteers. Thank you for all that you do! Thank you for taking care of our Jack until we were able to bring him home. -- Love your friends, Robin and Jon --