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Choosing your Boxer Dog
Choosing your Boxer Dog
Learn how to identify the Boxer dog that will give you
years of happiness.
by Kathy Burns-Millyard
December 18, 2004
An easier and more pleasant journey with your chosen Boxer
starts with checking out the parent dogs for unbecoming traits
like aggression, hyperactive and extreme shyness.
This is easier to do when you get your Boxer from a reputable
breeder or from a pet shop that get their animals only from
known breeders.
Exercise prudence if you are getting your Boxer puppy from
pet stores, which often get their supply from breeders of
unknown reputation.
These “puppy mills” as they are called are not known to put
much emphasis on the quality and health of pups they are producing.
Reputable breeders would adhere to the accepted standards
for Boxers in terms of uniformity in the breed, good health,
temperament, size and color.
Reputable breeders would be able to show the pedigree and
registration papers and/or pictures of the parent dogs that
may reside somewhere else.
Professional breeders are also there to produce dog show
champions or prospects.
Even if you are not looking to raise a show champion Boxer,
known breeders can provide you with some “best buy” puppies
because not all the puppies in a litter are show prospect/champion
materials.
But the full litter would have had benefited from the same
proven bloodlines, nutrition and medical care. So you can
choose from among the good-looking brothers or sisters of
potential champion for a bargain.
Your other source option is animal shelters that in the US
alone receive up to 12 million homeless dogs and cats every
year, and about 25% of them are purebred. Paying the adoption
fee is a lot cheaper than the price you will pay to a breeder
or pet store, and you will be saving a life.
The definition of good stock or purebred must include beauty,
and in a Boxer good look means the coat is fawn and brindle,
with the white markings or “flash” covering not more than
one-third of the entire coat.
Sometimes the distribution of the “flash” alone may make
the difference between a show champion and just a pet Boxer.
The all-white Boxer or “check” is prone to blindness and
deafness, and the American Boxer Club members are not to register,
sell or use the “whites” for breeding.
When it comes to choosing male or female Boxers, there are
not much clear-cut differences in their personalities.
At times, the male is calmer, more tolerant of other dogs,
willing to hold still for those hugs than the female. But
at other times, the female can be so. One owner said the female
Boxer is hyper and more aggressive especially toward other
females, and that the aggression has increased as the female
gets older.
- Kathy Burns-Millyard
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