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What are the facts about white boxers?
What health risks is the boxer prone to?
How often should I feed my puppy?
When can I start training my puppy?
What should my puppy weigh, how big will he get, and when will he finish growing?
My puppy needs something to chew on, what's safe?
Do you health test?
Do you crop ears?
When are your puppy's tails and dew claws removed?
What type of food do your puppyies eat?
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| What are the facts about white boxers? |
| See our white boxer mascot "Shopie" on the right menu bar for information on white boxers. Please visit this page for great answers to your white boxer questions.Click Here We are white boxer loyal! |
What health risks is the boxer prone to? |
| Aortic stenosis/subaortic stenosis (AS/SAS) ,Boxer cardiomyopathy, Hip dysplasia, Hypothyroidism, Corneal dystrophy, Demodectic mange, Cancer, Bloat, Allergies. Visit Boxer Health for more answers. and General Health |
| How often should I feed my puppy? |
A puppy should eat a minimum of three meals a day until about six months old, when you can reduce to two meals a day if you choose. Baby puppies (8-16 weeks) will usually do better on four or even five small meals a day. Visit our Care Guide for more answers.
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| When can I start training my puppy? |
Right away! An 8 week old puppy is quite capable of starting to learn basic commands such as sit, down, come, and to fetch. Remember to keep training sessions very short though, as puppy attention spans are fleeting, and to use only positive reward-based training methods. Training should be fun, for you and your puppy! By 10-16 weeks, your puppy is ready to attend his first puppy kindergarten class and every attempt should be made to do so – it is a great socialisation and learning opportunity for your puppy. Visit our Care Guide for more answers.
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| What should my puppy weigh, how big will he get, and when will he finish growing? |
In general, boxers will grow in height until around 12-15 months of age and then continue to fill out until they are two or three years old. The growth plates will not fully close until 18 months though, so be very careful to avoid over-exercising your puppy until this age. Boxer puppies grow at remarkably varying rates, so it is impossible (or at least meaningless) to try to estimate what a puppy should weigh at any given age. Bigger puppies don't always mean bigger adults though. Remember the big kid in nursery school who towered over everyone else, but suddenly stopped growing midway through high school? Well, it's the same with boxer puppies. The final size a dog will reach is determined by genetics, so the best indication of how large any particular puppy will become is the size of his parents, any older siblings, and other close relatives.
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| My puppy needs something to chew on, what's safe? |
Puppies do need to chew. From about 4 1/2 months, you puppy will begin teething and will have a serious need to chew. The best thing you can give your puppy is raw bones - preferably the slightly soft brisket (sternum) bones that a puppy can chew right through, but any recreational raw bone will do. NEVER give your puppy cooked bones (that includes smoked, sterilized and boiled bones) as dried out bones like these can splinter. If you can't bear the thought of raw bones, then buy a non-edible nylabone instead. Chewing is a great stress reliever for dogs, and an activity they will enjoy throughout their lives - so don't stop giving bones just because your pup has finished teething! Dogs should not be given rawhides, pigs ears or any other dried body part to chew on. These are a terrible choking hazard and many dogs have choked to death on raw hides. Rawhide has to go through several rounds of chemical cleanings in order to remove all the hair from the hide. These tend to not be rinsed off fully and the chemicals thus get ingested by the dog. Dried body parts (essentially leather) are also a bacteria hazard. Dogs' digestion systems are designed for fast processing of meat and bones, and that speed is their natural defence against bacteria. But dogs don't digest rawhide, it sits around in their stomach for some time before being passed in the same state as it went in. This can result in food poisoning, the mildest symptom of which is diarrhoea and vomitting.
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| Do you do health test? |
| Yes and no. We do a Brucellosis test before each breeding. Click on this link to find out more about Brucellosis. We do no genetic testing because our research has led us to believe that this type of testing does not guarantee a problem will not occur later in the life of a dog. We do, to the best of our ability, produce happy, healthy boxers. |
| Do you crop ears? |
| No. We leave this option up to the buyer. Before an ear crop you must have a consultation with your vet to determine if this best for your dog and you. Not all cropping is guaranteed and we prefer this to be your choice. |
| When are your puppy's tails and dew claws removed? |
| We take the puppy to our vet when they are three days old to have this procedure done. The tails are stitched and the stitches usually fall out within a few weeks. |
| What type of food do your puppies eat? |
| We feed all our dogs Purina. At around four weeks of age the puppies begin to eat Purina Puppy Chow- Healthy Morsels that is softened with water to make it easier for them to eat. |
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