Labrador vs Boxer

Hello Kamarlow and welcome to myLot! I read the previous responses you got and all the comments, and I'd suggest you to think twice before bringing home a dog. If your husband is allergic there may be a bad chance that he won't be able to cope with the allergy having a dog around, and you might need to give the dog away. This must be heartbreaking for both you and the puppy. Before bringing home the dog, try to have your husband live near a dog for some time, to see how he deals with the allergy. Maybe you have some friend or family member who owns a dog and you can "borrow" the dog for a while, to see if medecine help your husband or not. I have some friends that decided to bring home a Hungarian Vijla despite the husband's allergy. They thought the medecine will help. But no, after a month they were forced to give up on the puppy. You can imagine how much they cried because of that. They had become attached to the dog and the love was mutual.

I have owned both breeds in the past. Their hair is certainly a huge difference! But from my experience their temperament is also vastly different. My experience is that a Labrador is more laid back than a boxer. The Boxers I have had were extremely hyper and required a lot of attention. That may not always be the case but it certainly my experience. Both were very intelligent and playful but the Boxer had the energy to play a lot longer! Good luck on your search! I am a huge dog lover. I currently have 5, all rescue dogs and I wouldn't trade any of them for all the money in the world!

I have a Labrador and the reason why we picked it is because we wanted a big, kid friendly dog and he is very much like that but if you are picking a dog based on the hair type... you might want to think about it, I'm telling you that my yellow labrador sheds like CRAZY throught out the year pretty much, of course, spring and fall are the worst, although he has short hair, it is EVERYWHERE; when he shakes...hair flies. I have to vacuum everyday to keep the house look somewhat not hairy. I was suprised that he sheds even more than my long hair colie that I had before. I don't know about Boxer though, I have never had one.

I have not had the pleasure of owning either of those types of dogs, but my sister had two of the lightly colored labrador retrievers and they were very friendly and maybe a bit too friendly at times as they really like to jump up when they hadn't seen you for a while and they can be quite heavy when fully grown and they seem to get their hair on everything. Her dogs seems to like to bark at every noise too especially late at night when everyone was sleeping that could be a bit annoying, but overall they are really good dogs and very loveable just make a bit of a mess with their hair everywhere, but you won't find a friendlier breed then that one not sure what one of them cost now, but I'm sure it is not cheap.

coat is something you should consider when picking out a breed but also health concerns, energy levels (labs have higher energy levels), life expectancy, feeding requirements (as both these breeds are prone to bloat)how much time you can allot to training everyday or will you go to training classes as labs are one of the breeds of dogs most likley to bite and this is mainly from lack of training on the owners behalf

My vote is BOTH!!! haha, I'm a dog lover and its better that you have both of them because they are lovely and intelligent. But apparently, Labrador is much intelligent than boxers. They have a lot of affection to their owner.