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Evaluating Breeders With Boxer Dogs For Sale

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Evaluating Breeders With Boxer Dogs For SaleBy Jason Jr Rusch

There are several different sources from which you could purchase boxer dogs. Local pet stores, newspaper classified advertisements placed by backyard breeders who have boxer dogs for sale-you can even purchase them from online. None of these sources is guaranteed to provide you with an American Kennel Club registered boxer, however. If you want an AKC registered boxer, you need to purchase one from a reputable breeder.

Choosing a Reputable Breeder

So, how do you know if a breeder is reputable? After all, respectable breeders may breed boxer dogs out of their homes, just like backyard breeders-does this mean that backyard breeders are, indeed, trustworthy?

Not necessarily. However, some backyard breeders could be of good standing. The greatest way to tell is to evaluate each breeder who is offering boxer dogs for sale. Here are some signs to look for:

1. Respectable breeders breed only dogs that have been properly health tested. Boxer dogs are genetically prone to several serious health conditions; these can usually be avoided when both boxer dog parents have been screened for these genetic predispositions.

2. Honest breeders who have boxer dogs for sale will be more than happy to provide you with a minimum of a 1-year written guarantee against genetic health problems (often, though, they will give guarantees of 2 or 3 years.). These breeders will also be willing to give you copies of the health testing that was done on the parents of the boxer dogs for sale.

3. Good breeders will also show the boxer parents in confirmation dog shows or they will title their dogs. Otherwise, if none of their dogs are of sufficient quality to be shown or to gain titles, their boxer dogs for sale may not be of good quality.

Here are some probably warning signs. If the breeder who has boxer dogs for sale displays anyof these warning signs, it is likely that you will want to try to locate a different breeder.

4. Breeders who use a lot of buzzwords like "champion lines" may not be all that reliable. Ask them to delineate the "champion line" for you. You want to buy from a breeder with boxer dogs for sale whose "champion line" includes parents and grandparents that were title dogs and show dogs-not one whose line only includes titled great-great grandparents, for example.

5. Any breeder who has boxer dogs for sale who asks you to take the dog home before 8 weeks of age is very questionable. After all, boxers need the first 7 weeks of their lives to learn from being with their mothers and littermates.

6. Breeders with boxer dogs for sale with rare colors such as white, reverse brindle or black are disreputable. Why? Simply because these are not rare colors! White and reverse brindle are not rare at all, though some breeders may try to convince people that they are. As for black, that colour does not even exist at all in purebred boxers! Dogs that look black are really dark brindle boxers.

By evaluating any breeder with boxer dogs for sale, you should be able to select a decent, honest breeder.

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The Truth About Black Boxer Dogs

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The Truth About Black Boxer DogsBy Jason Jr Rusch

There are a lot of people who say that they own black boxer dogs. Likewise, there are many backyard breeders who purport to be selling "rare" black boxer dogs. The problem? There are no black boxer dogs.

Perhaps that seems a small confusing. Maybe you have even seen a black boxer dog yourself, and you can't see how the above statement could possibly be correct. Well, it is a factual statement-there are no black boxer dogs. It is genetically impossible for a black boxer dog to exist.

What are these dogs, then?

So, this begs the question-what, exactly, are the black boxer dogs that backyard breeders are selling and that people say they own? What was that black boxer dog that you might have seen yourself? After all, these dogs look every bit like boxers...and you might be thinking that the coloring of these dogs looks like black to you.

As it turns out, these dogs are actually brindle boxers. Some people call them reverse brindle boxers. Nonetheless, they are brindles, not black boxer dogs.

A brindle boxer is one that has some type of fawn coloring (from a tan colour to a dark reddish color)-but, on top of the fawn coloring are black stripes. Boxers can have any number or sort of black striping. They can even have such a quantity of black striping that they appear to be black with fawn-colored striping. The boxers who have this much black striping are often called reverse brindle boxers.

Some of these brindle boxers may end up with such a great amount of black striping that it can be quite difficult to find the fawn undercolor. Boxer experts know that there is fawn underneath; however, those who are uneducated about boxers naturally assume that these are black boxer dogs.

Why the deception? When a backyard breeder sellsdogs that he claims are "rare" black boxer dogs, he can sell them at a higher price than the price at which he sells his other boxer dogs. Since many backyard breeders are not quite ethical in a lot of their practices, this price gouging over a falsehood fits in with how these breeders function. Of course, not all backyard breeders are like this; however, any backyard breeder who claims to be selling a breed variety or diversity that doesn't exist in nature probably doesn't have the highest moral standards.

Why is it so impossible for there to be black boxer dogs?

It takes a simple knowledge of genetics to understand. Basically, every being-whether it is a mammal, like a dog, or an amphibian or anything else-has genes. These genes determine everything about the being, from skin colour to the number legs to where the eyes are...genes control everything.

Genes control coat colour in dogs, too. In order for a dog or canine to be black, that breed of dog must contain the gene for having a black coat. Boxer dogs do not have that gene. So, there cannot be any black boxer dogs. It is genetically impossible for a boxer to have a black coat.

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Important Boxer Dog Information

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Important Boxer Dog InformationBy Jason Jr Rusch

When you are considering purchasing a boxer, it is important for you to know about as much boxer dog information as possible. You need to do a lot of research to make sure that you understand everything there is to know about boxers before actually taking the steps to purchase one. This is because the greatest decisions are those that are the most well-informed.

If the boxer breed is the one which you are contemplating, chances are you have already learned a bit about boxers. Maybe you are thinking about a boxer because you like something about the breed's temperament or some of the breed's characteristics. However, it is also important to learn the not-so-good parts of boxer dog information. Every breed has undesirable aspects, including possible health issues or predispositions. You need to know about these aspects so that you will make a fully informed decision.

Possible Health Issues

Like a large number of other dog breeds, boxers have a predisposition to having certain health problems. There are actually three disorders that can be relatively common in boxer dogs. You should be informed about the disorders that can affect a boxer's health, so here is some boxer dog information about the three disorders:

1. Aortic Stenosis: With this disorder, there is a blockage from the left ventricle of the heart through the aorta that carries the blood to the rest of the body.

Dogs with mild stenosis may show no symptoms and may have a normal life expectancy. Moderate to severe stenosis forces the dog's heart to pump harder. The dog may have difficulty breathing or exerting himself.

2. Cardiomyopathy: This is a disease of the heart muscle that causes the ventricles to lose their ability to contract normally. It is more common in males than in females.

In boxers, there are three stages of cardiomyopathy:

a. An irregular heart rhythm is diagnosed.

b. Dogs may collapse or have extreme weakness once in awhile.

c. Signs of heart failure are seen in the dogs. These include weakness, loss of appetite, weight loss, and fainting.

3. Corneal Dystrophy: This is an abnormality that causes painful ulcerations and erosions in the cornea. Medication can help, however the ulcerations often reoccur and they are quite painful.

Other boxer dog information about which you should be aware may include the incidence of deafness in white boxer dogs. Fawn and brindle boxers have about a 2% odds of becoming deaf (completely or partially), whereas white boxer dogs have about a 20% chance. For this reason, many people prefer not to purchase white boxer dogs-after all, deaf dogs require drastically different training approaches.

Breeders and Health

You should also be aware of this boxer dog information. Reputable breeders screen both male and female boxers before breeding for all of the above health issues (and more, in some cases). By purchasing your boxer through an honest and trustworthy breeder, you have a much greater odds of buying a boxer that is not genetically likely to get any of the above conditions. Backyard breeders typically do not pay the hundreds of dollars for health screenings.

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