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About Everlast
How It All Started
I got my first dog when I graduated from high school. She was a Rottweiler mix named "Haley". I have been hooked on dogs ever since.
My first boxer came to me quite unexpectedly. In late 2000, a friend who knew I was really involved with dogs came to me with a stray he found wandering his neighborhood. It was a 4-month-old plain brindle boxer boy we came to know as "Trey". He was very skinny, covered in wounds, and had been shot with a pellet gun. Even after all that, he was just a little love bug. He never held a grudge—not a mean bone in his body.
So I agreed to take him in as a "foster" dog. We nursed him back to health, did extensive obedience training with him, and gave him a great year with us before finding him a forever home. The hardest thing was letting him go, but we already had two other dogs at the time and a baby on the way. After a long selection process, he went to a wonderful home in Olympia, Washington.
But I have never been the same since. I missed his happy, outgoing personality, and the trademark boxer "wiggle butt". I knew this was the breed for me, and just had to have another one...and another... and another...
About Heather
I began my career working with dogs through an intensive apprenticeship program at The Academy of Canine Behavior in Bothell, WA. During the apprenticeship I learned about obedience training–teaching dogs how to live with people, and canine behavior–with an emphasis on working through aggression issues. I went on to become a trainer (training dogs) and an obedience instructor (teaching people to train their dogs). Additionally, I was exposed to the world of showing dogs for conformation.
Through this experience and my love for the boxer breed, I became hooked and developed a strong desire to better the breed through educated, selective breeding. I firmly believe in breeding dogs of sound health, temperament, and conformation (according to breed standard). It is also very important to me to match my dogs with the most appropriate homes, in order to enrich the lives of the dogs and their people.
– Heather McIntosh Trainer, Behavior Specialist, Breeder
