![]() The Boxer breed became popular across Europe at the very end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and soon, first Boxers were imported to the US. The breeders' names were Roberth, Konig, and Hopner. In 1894, German dog breeders decided to standardize the breed and they entered their dogs in the 1895 Munich dog show and a year after that, they helped in creating the Boxer Club. A famous canine historian called John Wagner wrote a book called “The Boxer” in 1939 and he claims that most of the big show dog winners and praised modern Boxers can be tracked to Meta von der Passage. She was bred with one of the grandsons of Lechner’s Box and produced a puppy called Meta von der Passage and she is considered to be the mother of the modern-day Boxer breed. That show had a specialty event only for Boxers and Flocki achieved an overwhelming victory.įlocki's sister was a white puppy that is considered today to have the most influence on the development of the modern breed. Flocki was the first dog ever to be registered in the German studbook but it wasn’t until he won a dog show held in Munich. That female was then bred to an English Bulldog and they produced a dog called Flocki. The German cynology authorities accepted her and registered her as “Bierboxer”. Lechner’s Box was inbred with his mother and their breeder produced a female puppy called Alt’s Schecken. The litter that came to life had a small fawn-colored male that was named Lechner’s Box and he is believed to be the first influence of the modern Boxer breed. Alt crossbred the old Bullenbeisser female with a local dog that wasn’t purebred. The modern-day version of the breed was developed in the late 1800s by a German man named Georg Alt. Slowly these dogs started moving towards other jobs and became mostly used for guarding duties by the German butchers. Their main job was to bite and hold the prey while the hunters came. Boxer’s ancestors were used for centuries for hunting and they specialized in big game such as deer, wild boar, or even bears. This breed is a descendant of the old German Bullenbeisser, a crossbreed between the Bulldog and the Mastiff. ![]()
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