How To Choose Your Boxer Dog

Written by Amy Howells


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Your other source option is animal shelters that inrepparttar US alone receive up to 12 million homeless dogs and cats every year, and about 25% of them are purebred. Payingrepparttar 105740 adoption fee is a lot cheaper thanrepparttar 105741 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 meansrepparttar 105742 coat is fawn and brindle, withrepparttar 105743 white markings or "flash" covering not more than one-third ofrepparttar 105744 entire coat.

Sometimesrepparttar 105745 distribution ofrepparttar 105746 "flash" alone may makerepparttar 105747 difference between a show champion and just a pet Boxer.

The all-white Boxer or "check" is prone to blindness and deafness, andrepparttar 105748 American Boxer Club members are not to register, sell or userepparttar 105749 "whites" for breeding.

When it comes to choosing male or female Boxers, there are not much clear-cut differences in their personalities.

At times,repparttar 105750 male is calmer, more tolerant of other dogs, willing to hold still for those hugs thanrepparttar 105751 female. But at other times,repparttar 105752 female can be so. One owner saidrepparttar 105753 female Boxer is hyper and more aggressive especially toward other females, and thatrepparttar 105754 aggression has increased asrepparttar 105755 female gets older.

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Is a Boxer Dog The Right Pet For You?

Written by Amy Howells


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* "They are a gift! The two I have are always smiling and they cheer me up when I’m not too happy. They can be your friends for life!"

* "My Boxer can take up my moods or lay quietly by my feet for hours." * "Boxers are so intuitive, so easily bored and heartbroken. They arerepparttar definition of devotion and courage."

* "If I treat my Boxer puppy as an intelligent animal and talk to him almost like he's human, he is more responsive and better behaved, as though he's picking up on my sentiments byrepparttar 105739 way I am speaking to him."

* "Boxers can be very manipulative. They are a lot smarter than they look! Don’t get taken in by their innocent-looking face or let them walk all over you no matter how much their eyes make them look like they are truly sorry."

* "Give up being house-proud and enjoy your "devil dog". Don’t have potted plants because you’ll end up with empty pots! Don’t run to answerrepparttar 105740 phone because you’ll be rugby-tackled and end up flat on your face."

* "Bringing a puppy or even an older dog into your home and your life is a major decision. It brings with it responsibility and commitment, but it also renders supreme joy, laughter, and sadly, but inevitably, tears. Not one of us who has ever shared his life with a Boxer would have it any other way."

* "Boxer dogs think they are human. Treat them like one - love them, talk to them, cuddle them and value them and you will get your love back unconditionally 10,000 times."

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