Sigh - potential help for my friend

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Despite all my best efforts my totally unsuitable friend's boyfriend has bought them a Boxer pup.

From a home where the owners "just wanted to bitch to have pups"... SIGH

So what to look out for with Boxers? For some reason I'm thinking epilepsy and deafness in (the whites). Don't know if they suffer from cherry eye too?

Help please for me to help a friend before she gets herself in big trouble! x
 
More commonly as suggested heart problems and tumours, I board a 12 month old boxer that has already had 3 benign tumours removed.
Take care on hot days not to over do the running around as they suffer like staffs on over exertion in heat and the airways are not the best.
 
Well little Roxy has a hip score of 16, apparently health tested for everything she should have been - can't wait to meet her Weds, have advised the things I was advised with Zarno (no up n down stairs, on sofa and no major excersise til bones are properly formed etc) sigh sigh sigh.
 
Kitsune said:
Well little Roxy has a hip score of 16, apparently health tested for everything she should have been - can't wait to meet her Weds, have advised the things I was advised with Zarno (no up n down stairs, on sofa and no major excersise til bones are properly formed etc) sigh sigh sigh.
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do REALLY labour that point. My staffie boy (rescue) has elbow displaysia (effectively arthritis) at the age of 3. This is despite being active and not carrying any additionial fat at all (vets say so not mine). We can't be sure but vets have said it is most likely due to poor feeding (he was on Bakers when I got him) and over exertion as a puppy ( he lived in a flat).

and to make sure they do listen to you, you can tell them that at some point, my dog is looking at a £2000 operation to keep him comfortable. I am managing his condition with a special vet diet but he will not do a decent walk any more - will just sit down and refuse so we end up going out 3 or 4 times so he gets short (25mins max) hops)
 
Do these depressing posts not make you feel sad?

I realise that every breed, to a greater, or lesser extent has inbuilt problems, but with so many breeds, and just as a "for instance", Boxers, have such a small gene pool, as their popularity seems to have waned from 30 years ago, that the decline in the dogs themselves, is inevitable. Am I wrong?

It also seems strange to me that when a specific breed is taken from its natural home land, then the decline is equally marked. To illustrate my point;

The best Labradors, ESS and Cockers, are here in the UK. Just look at the frightful things which we see abroad.

The best HPR breeds are also found in their country of origin. There are one or two decent GSPs in this country, but very few.

The best GSDs, Rottweilers, Dobermans and Boxers, tend to be in Germany. I will accept now that the GSD has improved immensely here in the UK, over the last 30 years, thanks to highly experienced breeders.

The best work Collies are here in the UK. I've watched the Continentals, and their dogs, and through inexperience, and a diminutive gene pool, their efforts tend to be an embarrassment.

A good few years ago I visited a chap in Germany who had two Boxers. I had never seen anything like them here in the UK. They were stunning dogs. Taller than we tend to have, but what incredible frames, and not that dissimilar from refined Rotts. Cropped ears, bold, handsome, confident animals. They stood away from me, and were aloof. I knew enough to ignore them. Any sudden or silly movement would have brought on an attack. They weren't alone, he had about 20!!

Does fashion dictate the breeds which we keep, and does that then attract those who with only the thought of money, wreck those breeds which when in their home lands, are everything which we should want?

All in all, a sad thread.

Alec.
 
Kitsune said:
Well little Roxy has a hip score of 16, apparently health tested for everything she should have been - can't wait to meet her Weds, have advised the things I was advised with Zarno (no up n down stairs, on sofa and no major excersise til bones are properly formed etc) sigh sigh sigh.
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A puppy can't have a hip score or have been tested herself.
Too often a basic check up at the vets is considered a health test by BYBs.
 
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