thinking about species and breeds and individuals and socialization and communication and i flashed back to barak obomba the beagle and wondered how much i could have done with him after his namesake i couldn't but regard as a curse, and being a beagle after all and his family so dysfunctional, well, not optimally functional, bed-ridden, and nobody to take poor barak outside. there is no similarity between barak obomba the beagle and lulu the boxer i know, and the family is a world different, and amenable to training. i just want to find out what is boxer and what is puppy and what is lulu. i don't think the breed is the sole determinant of behavior, but the two beagles i walked were nuts and completely slaves of the nostrils to the exasperation of me. lulu is still a babe, and sweet as can be, and far less neurotic than barak obomba the beagle. she just needs to calm enough to have a social life and not make people flee, nor pull my arm out of my trunk.