The females are very deceptive in how the behave. What I saw with Struddel was with both her Dominate male house mates. Yep, she was pushy and kinda bossy come play time and day to day stuff.
But...Gunther when he was with us (passed on) and then Rocky was always out the door first and in and out the car first! Nothing I trained it was just what she did. And when the crap hit the fan, she would watch Gunther's flank and "see" if action was required??
Case in point, one day the dogs on the lawn I was in the driveway working on my car. I hear a yappy bark, bark, bark all of a sudden?? I get from under the car to see what the fuss was??
I look on the lawn and my eyes get big as saucers!! One of my annoying neighbors little dogs had decided to "proof" Gunther!!!
He was four feet from Gunther Barking in his face!! Gunther looks at me and back at the little dog... "what's the deal, here???"
I said Good Boy and calmly got the little miscreant out of Gunther's face!! And Struddel, she was about two feet away from Gunther's right rear, staring hard and waiting to see if "action" was required??
I have no doubt that if Gunther had gone after that dog...Struddel would have immediately helped rip that dog apart! I saw that same behavior with her again on a walk with my wife, when Rocky and I had an "issue" with two charging dogs!! Yet again she was waiting in the wings to see if action was required!
However, I saw got to see the dark side on two occasions! My mistake was with baby kittens being born! Gunther on my right three feet away and Struddel to my left four feet away so I was in the middle, both dogs down.
As the kittens where being born Struddel site quietly, and patiently watching the new births. Gunther was much more animated! He moved into a Sit and barked and smiled at each new birth, hey... this is pretty cool!!!
I never noticed that Gunther's antics were really ticking Struddel off!?? Suddenly before I knew it, she had gone past me and right after Gunther!! He yelped as she cut his nose??? She was all over him and he was trying hard to get away! I had to pull her off and carried her outside!
She was flat out insane!!! I had to literally pin her to ground with my chest, hugged tight so as not to get bit myself...she was "gone!!" I would have been just something to bite the crap out of, if precautions were not taken!! I held her for a few minuets until she finally calmed down!!
I let her up, the butt wiggles and she smiles, hey dad what's up! Happened one other time over a pig ear after we left our "Stupid" friend in charge of the dogs for the weekend! Same deal went after Gunther for trying to take her pig ear, something he had done numerous times over the years!! But this time...it was uh "NO!!!"
He was our room mate and eventually, it got to be him our my Boxer? Yeah that is not really a choice, have not heard from him in years!
My point is by and large most folks have never seen a female Boxer in the Red Zone! Trust me if you do, it is not something you will soon forget! The term "speed" does not even come close to the blur of motion at work!
Hence Boxer Rescue's policy No Female Boxers in homes that already have a female Boxer! If a display such as I described happened with a new rescue?? You can bet that new dog would be back at rescue real freaking quick!! If they were lucky enough to get the dog back!
And this was male/female an incident, not a one day, "I don't want this other dog alive in the same household with me, "every," kind of thing!!!"
Don't let the "pretty face's" deceive you! Two female Boxer's in the same household is not a decision to be made lightly!
It's nothing I ever plan on doing! The folks that can are better than those that can't! Luck or skill, you need one or the other!
So I guess you have to ask yourself..."Do I feel Lucky??" Yeah... bad pun couldn't help myself!