In a message dated 10/22/2002 2:02:07 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > We love our boxer and the ones that have passed on. They fit right in with > allergies and all. We laugh that they choose us and not the other way > around. We still laugh about how some of them have chosen us. > My aunt and uncle (Beatty side, Pat!) who lived in North Carolina had boxers for several years. They were great dogs -- but when your face has been licked by a boxer, you know that you've been licked, but good! :-} The only dog that ever did a better job, as I can recall, was our son's friend's Rottweiler. I swear, that dog's tongue must have been four inches wide, and it felt wider! Incidentally, that Rottie was a male, fully equipped, and he actually kowtowed to our Lucky when we were visiting. And that was on the Rottie's home territory! Our daughter and son-in-law in Idaho have back-door neighbors who own a beautiful husky and leave him in the back yard and ignore him all day. That dog just loves people, and he comes to the fence separating their yards so that Sue and Scott can pat him and give him some attention. They'd love to own him themselves, but they have five cats already. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr