If you are thinking about getting a purebred dog, and a Boxer dog in particular, you would be wise to familiarize yourself with what is known in the canine world as the “breed standard”.
Every country has a kennel club—In the U.S. it’s the American Kennel Club, or AKC, and for South America and most of Europe, it’s the Federacion Cynolgique Internationale, or FCI. Each ke
nnel club has a system of registration, which issues the equivalent of “birth certificates”, guaranteeing that the parents of the dog to whom the certificate is assigned also have certificates. And the only way they got certificates is by having parents who also had them.
Every kennel-club-registered dog has to have had registered ancestors going back at least five generations. So when you buy a registered Boxer dog, you are guaranteeing that it comes from a family which has been bred to meet the “breed standard”, meaning that there has been no blood from other breeds, or “outcross”, introduced into the mix since the time of its great-great-great grandparents.
That’s why each breed is recognizable as a distinct breed, and why a Boxer dog is very different from the German Bullenbeisser and English Bulldogs which were crossbred to produce what became the Boxer dog breed.
The breed standard gives prospective Boxer dog owners an idea of what to expect from their dogs, both in appearance and behavior. While it’s one thing to have a mental picture of how a champion Boxer dog should look, it’s quite another to have a clear idea of what living with a Boxer dog is like.
The breed standard for a the ideal Boxer dog, from the time they first appeared in Germany, has required that a Boxer dog be fearless and fiercely protective, while simultaneously being friendly, intelligent, willing to learn, and eager to please. If it lacks any of these traits, it has lost one of the things which makes a Boxer dog a Boxer dog.
The degree to which and individual Boxer dog meets the physical standard for the breed--the unique head and square, balanced muscular torso--are easily enough judged. But the temperament, even in a puppy born to the Boxer dog purple, must be nurtured. A responsible breeder will give you a puppy bred for stable temperament, but it’s up to you to lovingly socialize and train your puppy so that it becomes a Boxer dog worthy of its heritage!
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