Snickers the Puppy's mother, Kiya the Good Listener (adopted) can also be seen on our website.
Snickers the Puppy's sister, Flirt the Puppy (adopted) can also be seen on our website.
Snickers the Puppy's brother, Kruzer the Puppy (adopted) can also be seen on our website.

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Snickers is an adorable little puppy. You'll never believe how he arrived in our care. Michelle dropped by Judy's house to pick something up and found the gate open. There in the drive way was a crate. Inside the crate was a dog and her three puppies. No food. No water. No note. Who leaves a little family like this in the blazing Florida summer sun with no shade or water? That is inhumane!
Kaily is fostering this family and learning more about them every day. We don't really know what breed they are. Momma Kiya looks like a small Catahoula/Greyhound mix to me. Kaily says she looks like a petite Rhodesian Ridgeback minus the ridge. The puppies all look like Boxers, but since we have no idea who the daddy is.... Snickers has those classic Boxer markings that I love so much, tan and white. What a guy! Check out the video at the bottom of this page.

8/19 Foster Update:
The rascal of the group is Snickers. He likes to jump in my face to give kisses (and sometimes try to play bite...). He and his brother play tug of war a lot. Sometimes its a three way fight when Flirt comes in. He's the most energetic and mischevious one. He loves to snuggle when he's done playing. This puppy looks a lot like a pure bred boxer to me.

08/22 foster update: Snickers is going to be very easy to train. His brother and sister are the more dominant dogs, which is surprising because he's the tallest. Whenever they try to pick on him, he just gives up. He's been listening very well and doing wonderfully with the puppy pads and outside potty breaks. He's not potty trained yet, but does tend to use the puppy training pads instead of just going wherever. Whenever anyone sees the litter, people automatically go for him because he has such great markings. All of them do, really. Each one is so unique!

8/30 Foster Update: These puppies are a prime example of why mutts are such great dogs. The intelligence that these little guys possess is unbelievable. And they are all going to blossom into such gorgeous dogs. These little guys are doing wonderfully with potty training. They know that they are SUPPOSED to go outside, and hardly ever go on the carpet anymore. The puppy training pads help out a lot! They do go on the tile though when they can't hold it. I brought them to my dad's house again last night (he has a HUGE fenced-in backyard) and they LOVE to play in the yard. If you saw the way they romp around...anyone who wants one of these little guys needs to have a fenced yard. I think the boys may even outweigh their mother when they're full grown. They've each put on 3 pounds in 2 weeks. Flirt may be a little smaller than them when she's done growing. Snickers looks a lot like a boxer, Kruzer looks a lot like an American Bulldog, and Flirt...just looks like a princess. All of their markings are so cute. Kruzer actually has brown freckles all over his body (they just started showing up...kind of like a puppy dalmation's do). All of them have prominent freckled fur on their white fur. These guys are sooooo cute. Whoever gets these little ones is going to be very lucky!

According to www.dogbreedinfo.com, the Boxer's ancestors were two German mastiff type dogs, the Bullenbeiszer and the Barenbeiszer. They were later crossed with the powerful ancestors of the Mastiff and Bulldog. Early on, these dogs were prized for hunting, bull baiting, and for pulling carts. A bit farther down the family tree, Boxer ancestors became cattle dogs, and were used to round up livestock. They were also popular circus and theater dogs because they learned tricks so easily. Breeding was rather indiscriminate until the first Boxer studbook was started in 1904, stabilizing the breed standard. In spite of its German origins, "Boxer" is an E