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Hello all,
I have been seeing quite a lot of these "tri colored boxers" being advertised lately as pure bred boxers, a certain breeder has a website and adamantly defends her dogs as pure Boxers even though they are tri colored.
She is defending this coloring as a variant of "Irish Spotting" in the Boxer breed.
Now all the digging I have personally done into it brings me to the conclusion that Irish spotting, while in the Boxer breed, has nothing to do with making the dog a rottweiler marked dog and simply controls the white markings. Correct me if my thoughts on that is wrong..
Unfortunately there seems to be quite a following of these new coat markings and I am quite disturbed by the amount of people so willing to believe that a boxer would just pop out marked like that without being a mix.
Has anyone else come across such nonsense?
Do you feel this is going to be a detriment to the breed in the years to come?
I have tried to explain to people that those markings are an impossibility in the breed but they absolutely refuse to believe it as "But it looks just like a Boxer":doh:
I have been seeing quite a lot of these "tri colored boxers" being advertised lately as pure bred boxers, a certain breeder has a website and adamantly defends her dogs as pure Boxers even though they are tri colored.
She is defending this coloring as a variant of "Irish Spotting" in the Boxer breed.
Now all the digging I have personally done into it brings me to the conclusion that Irish spotting, while in the Boxer breed, has nothing to do with making the dog a rottweiler marked dog and simply controls the white markings. Correct me if my thoughts on that is wrong..
Unfortunately there seems to be quite a following of these new coat markings and I am quite disturbed by the amount of people so willing to believe that a boxer would just pop out marked like that without being a mix.
Has anyone else come across such nonsense?
Do you feel this is going to be a detriment to the breed in the years to come?
I have tried to explain to people that those markings are an impossibility in the breed but they absolutely refuse to believe it as "But it looks just like a Boxer":doh: