Boxers and Beer

I just discovered an interesting and intriguing fact concerning the boxer breed. Boxers are historically linked to beer. In past centuries, German boxer owners would take their dogs with them to the local beer garden to sit with them outside and enjoy the weather and a good lager. There is evidence that boxers would quaff a quarter pint or two while chilling in the cool Bavarian breeze with their owners:

In the same vein runs a theory based on the fact that there were a group of dogs known as "Bierboxer" in Munich by the time of the breed's development. These dogs were the result from mixes of Bullenbeisser and other similar breeds. Bier (beer) probably refers to the Biergarten, the typical Munich beergarden, an open-air restaurant where people used to take their dogs along. The nickname "Deutscher Boxer" was derived from bierboxer and Boxer could also be a corruption of the former or a contraction of the latter.<sup>[7]


(source = wikipedia)</sup>