* "They are a gift! The two I have are always smiling and they cheer me up when I’m not too happy. They can be your friends for life!"

* "My Boxer can take up my moods or lay quietly by my feet for hours." * "Boxers are so intuitive, so easily bored and heartbroken. They are definition of devotion and courage."

* "If I treat my Boxer puppy as an intelligent animal and talk to him almost like he's human, he is more responsive and better behaved, as though he's picking up on my sentiments by way I am speaking to him."

* "Boxers can be very manipulative. They are a lot smarter than they look! Don’t get taken in by their innocent-looking face or let them walk all over you no matter how much their eyes make them look like they are truly sorry."

* "Give up being house-proud and enjoy your "devil dog". Don’t have potted plants because you’ll end up with empty pots! Don’t run to answer phone because you’ll be rugby-tackled and end up flat on your face."

* "Bringing a puppy or even an older dog into your home and your life is a major decision. It brings with it responsibility and commitment, but it also renders supreme joy, laughter, and sadly, but inevitably, tears. Not one of us who has ever shared his life with a Boxer would have it any other way."

* "Boxer dogs think they are human. Treat them like one - love them, talk to them, cuddle them and value them and you will get your love back unconditionally 10,000 times."

If your Boxer has tapeworms, he has fleas too because part of tapeworm life cycle occurs in flea as host. As such, treatments against flea and tapeworm are normally prescribed together.

Some, like roundworm, that infect dogs can also get passed on to children.

In more serious cases, your dog will catch cough, pneumonia and develop lung problems.

There are different types of worms that infect dogs such as tapeworm, roundworm, ringworm and heartworm. De-worm your Boxer puppy every month and your grown Boxer, every 6 months. Puppies get sick from worms, more so than dogs.

But your infected grown Boxers help spread worms more through their droppings that would contain large number of larvae and/or eggs.

Released into surrounding, these larvae and eggs could infect other animals and even children.

The tapeworms have a flat, segmented body. You see them as single segments or chains that resemble segments of rice in droppings of infected canine. Part of tapeworm´s life cycle occurs in flea as host.

Therefore, if your Boxer has tapeworms, it has fleas too and treatments for both are usually prescribed together by vet. The roundworms (toxocara) live and produce hundreds of eggs in intestine.

They cause digestive upset in puppies, poor growth, and thin or out-of-conditioned coat. The infected puppies may become listless, have a potbelly or tucked in appearance.

Once roundworms migrated from gut to lungs, your Boxer can suffer lung damage, cough and pneumonia.

The roundworm eggs in dog droppings get passed out and about. These are very hardy eggs, resistant to heat and cold, and can survive up to 7 years in soil. The eggs can pass on to children through ingestion and cause them to fall sick as well. As precautions, you can toilet train your Boxer puppy to use a place where you can easily clean up and dispose of droppings into sewer. Have your children wash their hands every time after they handle puppies and discourage your puppies from licking people hands or faces.