Diamond Springs Boxer Rescue

Are you part of the Problem?

"Family" breeder's and Backyard breeder are.

It was once said, “The world doesn’t need more Boxer's. It needs more Boxer’s who are healthier and live longer and who more closely match the breed standard.”

Are you breeding just to create more Boxers’s?
Or is your goal to truly improve the breed by passing on the genes of your physically, mentally, and genetically superior animal?
Millions of dogs are euthanized every year in North America. Every puppy purchased takes a potential home away from an abandoned dog in a shelter. Unless you have a truly exceptional animal and guaranteed, qualified, responsible buyers lined up for as many as 12 puppies, please do not breed your dog.
Here is a copy of the Breeder’s Code of Ethics for the Boxer.
Do you follow it?
If not, there is a good chance you’ll create substandard animals. You’ll be harming the breed you claim to love by producing inferior specimens.

It is extremely rare to find one breeder who owns both the sire and the dam in a well-planned mating. The sire's specific faults should be balanced by the dam's specific strengths, and vice versa. More often than not, one breeder owns the championed dog and another breeder owns the championed bitch, only coming together briefly for the purpose of mating. When one person owns both the sire and dam in a union, it is usually an indication the person is a backyard breeder.
The standards were written so that all would know what a quality example of the breed is and strive to produce dogs that meet or exceed the standard in health, temperament and appearance. To be sure you are breeding dogs that meet these standards, your dogs must be judged by people who have a lifetime of experience among the breed. Do you know the standard of the dog you want to breed? Does your dog meet this standard according to an AKC Judge? If not, your dog is pet quality. A pet is to be loved, cherished, trained, cared for, spoiled and bragged about, but it is NEVER to be bred. No matter how cute or sweet the dog may be, if it is not up to the standard, you have no business breeding it.
The backyard breeders are not responsible pet owners. They think they love the dogs but it's not really true because they don't really want to be bothered with doing all that it takes to breed ethically. They love feeling important when they say, "I breed such-and-such breed". But breeding pet dogs isn't something to be proud of. It's a shame on our society. It's the reason for the killing that goes on in shelters. Why do you want to be part of that?
Do you want to be respected? Spay or neuter your dogs. There's really no other way. The kinds of homes you want for your pet pups don't want to buy from you. They are looking for responsible, respected breeders who are doing something for the breed as a whole. Most of those who will come running to buy your pups are the kind of people a rescue group wouldn't give a dog to. They are the ones who will turn your puppy into a shelter when the novelty wears off. That's a fact.
Want to stop the problem of killing 1 million dogs a month all over America? Spay or neuter your pet dog now and tell everyone you know to do the same and leave the breeding to the people who are doing something to better the breed.


Do you call yourself a reputable breeder? Or you offering lip service that you are? Do you follow all the of the code or only Articel 1.1?
http://www.americanboxerclub.org/ethics.html
Having re-read the Code of Ethics again, I now see that the majority of the "registered" dogs we have received into rescue SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REGISTERED in the first place due to the standards.
I don't know of any ""reputable"" breeders.

Again Are you part of the Problem?

I'm glad I'm not.

Tim
from Diamond Springs Boxer Rescue
where no one leaves intact!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!