WARNING - IF YOU DON'T LIKE DOGS, YOU'LL PROBABLY ROLL YOUR EYES AT THIS POST.

I spend most of my TGIFritz posts talking about the crazy things Fritz does. He can be very mischievous, destructive, embarrassing and clever but he's also a really great family dog. I thought I'd take this post to talk about his good, albeit less interesting, qualities.



We brought Fritz home when he was just 10 weeks old, not long after our first anniversary and just a few weeks after we moved into our house with a yard. We couldn't wait to get a dog and we knew we wanted a Boxer. It seemed pretty unlikely at first because Boxer puppies were so popular (which in puppy world = expensive). Then J's mom came through with a breeder in Riverside who had 1 pure bred, non-AKC registered puppy left. We drove out to meet him and knew right away that he was our puppy. We spotted some of his enduring traits right away:




he's very smart- too smart, he's very playful and social...



... he's cuddly, loyal, attentive, generally obedient...



...he's friendly, happy, curious, protective-but not aggressive, strong and fast...



...he's 80% calm, but is pretty excitable, he knows the phrase "that's enough" and usually responds to it at home...



... and he's a great sleeper (I'm talking about 13 hours a day!).

We love our Fritzimas, Fritzgerald, Fritzstoferson pup!!