Molly and Jackson were relentless in their pursuit of intimidating any dog or person as their combined weight of 163 pounds lunged and strained to get closer to their object of interest. Occasionally, some brave soul would ask (from a distance) "Are they friendleeee?" Dave and I could never comfortably answer that question, as they were unpredictable.

Over the past four years we enrolled the dogs in numerous obedience and agility classes and bought various types of dog restraining apparatus. For the most part these measures only worked when Molly or Jackson decided to humor us. Whenever an unfamiliar dog or person came in sight they acted as if they had never had any training and did not mind the choking of the leash as long as they got to whatever they focused on. We were at the point of vowing to never own another Boxer.

We were convinced that they could never be trained to the level of obedience that would be consistent and reliable in all and every situation.

Then along came Jeff's van with a picture of a Boxer advertising his "dog training for the real world". We were curious to meet someone who had the confidence and courage to use a Boxer as advertisement for OBEDIENCE training.

With Jeff's instruction we learn how to calmly and consistently use the appropriate command to get our dogs attention and obedience. The obedience commands, we are taught, have truly become tools of communication between our dogs and ourselves.