State – near Waterbury,CT Age – 10 months DOB – 6/28/25 Weight – 48 lbs (estimate 65 lbs full grown) Sex – Male Neut/UTD – Yes/Yes Coat Color – Fawn Children under 4 – no (too rough) Children over 4 – teens & up Separation Anxiety – No Other Dogs – Yes Cats – unsure Crate Training – learning House Training – yes Obedience Trained – No Leash Training – Learning Microchipped = No Adoption Fee – $675 5/8/26-Moses is getting so much better every day. His foster mom is working with him. He is not having accidents in the house any longer and he’s getting easier every day to handle. She said he is extremely smart. 5/5/26-Here is an update on Moses after 10 days at his current foster home. After about 48 hours of first arriving here, he was very crazy and very mouthy. He was not doing it to be mean or to bite, you can tell he just didn’t know any better. He was quite the handful for a few days as he wouldn’t stop the mouthing and jumping and just all out trying to dominate anything and anyone in his presence. The second you pushed him off or took your foot off the lead, he lunged back at you, mouth all over you. He just had no manners at all and didn’t care what you said or did. But I’m happy to say that all of that is slowly changing. Today he actually was sitting for a treat! I don’t think he’d ever sat before and I don’t mean by command, you just couldn’t even push him to sit or if he did kinda listen it went straight to laying down, then to jumping at you again. I get him out to run at least a few times a day in our fenced yard to get some of that energy out, and also a couple of leash walks. He’s still not happy about a collar or leash as he still tries to eat the leash once in a while, but at first that’s all he’d do, so I’m very happy with his progress. He absolutely needs consistency and to not let him get away with anything, as he knows when to push further if you cut him any slack. He is a very very smart boy and is very adaptable to anything with consistency. He will chew on and/or run with anything he can get to. I am not the type to move everything and get it out of his reach, I’d rather he learn not to do it. Not that there is a lot for him to get, but he even takes the towel off my stove. He thinks it’s all his. He will definitely need someone that is able to get him out to run at least a couple of times a day just to get the energy out. He’s also gonna need someone that will get him in a routine that’s repetitive, at least for now. Being from a puppy mill he also wasn’t potty trained either, that’s still a work in progress, but it’s been a few days now since he has gone to the bathroom inside, so I think he’s finally catching on. 5/1/26-Moses may be cute as a button boy but he is VERY high energy young boxer boy with no manners at all. He jumps up at you, play nipping you for attention & non stop wanting to play with any other dog he is with to point of annoying them. He is in the “out of control bratty boy” stage & definitely needs someone with an alpha personality & to immediately get him into training to learn manners. If he’s with only an older dog he will very likely drive them crazy. He definitely is a handful and is a very unruly boy but he is not mean boy. For all these reasons we also feel he will not be good with younger kids or someone who works all day. He’s a good rider in the car though, see comments below from 2 volunteer transport drivers that helped get him to his current foster home last weekend: “he was so good in the car last week when I went for the ride to transport him. He snuggled his head against me on my shoulder.” “We were part of his transport team as he made his way to CT last weekend, and all I can say is Moses is going to make some lucky family very happy! He was such a great passenger, and he loved all the head and ear scratches and loving we gave him. Such a good boy!!” 4/25/26-Moses left this morning on his ride to his next foster home in Connecticut and as the saying goes, he’s come a long way baby ! He’s loving car rides, gets in and out of the van with a little encouragement, walking into the vet with a collar and leash and doing very well at that, getting into a routine of going outside to do his business, being more respectful of other dogs, crate training, and he is very much a TV watcher. His favorites at the moment are Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Lol The bottom line, he has done an amazing job going from a breeder environment to living in a real home and getting love and attention on a regular basis. What this guy needs the most is a routine, learning his boundaries (clothes in the laundry basket are not considered toys) and learning that being loved and petted are now gonna be part of his regular life. 4/18/2026 Moses is a 10 month old boxer from a closed down puppy mill as he just got too old to sell. He was picked up at the breeders and transported to his temporary foster home to get updated on all of his shots and to be neutered. He’s an excellent rider in the car but is totally upset with wearing a collar and trying to walk on a leash. That’s to be expected since he’s never ever been exposed to those two things. His first three days here were interesting as a lot of time was spent with this little critter transitioning him to going potty outside, to tolerating a collar and a leash and learning some social skills on how to interact with other dogs. His exuberance as a 10 month old boxer puppy was a little over the top, but as he met other dogs, it was toned down. He will be neutered on Wednesday 4/22 and go to his actual foster home on Saturday the 25th.