No, you're not, because you're white.

White boxer, a walk through our cities you can see few, yet breeders with many years of experience behind them say that their birth is very frequent, in most of the litters you find one or two subjects. There are also those who add an empirical data: in the litters where at least one of the little brothers is white, you find the subjects that best represent the race.

Then why are they treated like meticci, without pedigree, as if one did not know who the parents are?

The first myth to be debunked is that white boxers are albinos.

"Congenital and hereditary abnormalities that occur in humans and in various animals, in the de-pigmentation partial or total of the skin, hair and hair, iris and choroid, from which comes a much clearer coloring than normal" (Devoto-Oli).

By re-leading this definition to the boxer means talking about subjects with red eyes and red truffles. And those with dark eyes and black truffles, that is almost all of whites, except the very rare cases proper albino, what are they? They are sliced boxers, according to a definition more adherent to reality. Pezzati because they normally have an eye surrounded by dark hair, a dark ear, in short, there are dark spots on the cloak.

Except the color of the mantle, the other morphological and character characteristics are like those of a commonly said boxer, and it could not be otherwise, since its parents are certain and documentable.

So? Let's try to take a step back. In 1895, the first boxer inscribed to the genealogical book of the breed was called Flocki, it was a tiger male with evident white spots, but the real parent of the race was sister Blanca, a name that says it long on color, and after her daughter Meta, almost entirely white, was another great breeder. This to understand where the white comes from and why it cannot be attributable exclusively to albinism. I also find it hard to believe that a healthy breeder, who intends to select a new breed with certain requirements of strength and vitality, entrusts himself to specimens, albinos, bearers of a genetic heritage with obvious deficiencies.

In 1925 the white cape was excluded from the standard. What problem was it? Let's go back to the beginning, the boxer is the result of intersections wanted by man, to serve a purpose. When Germany undertook the colonial adventure, races of dogs were selected that were to help the man in this undertaking, at that time the German Shepherd, the Doberman and the Boxer were born, every race wanted to carry out special tasks.

Raise your hand who has ever seen German Shepherds and White Doberman. I don't see you, but I suppose no one. A dog considered useful for military purposes cannot be white, otherwise it would be suitable only for day attacks and open field, exactly what military technique, at the end of the 19th century, did not consider anymore as the only strategy.

On this occasion too, the boxer paid a price to human needs.

So: white boxer is not synonymous with albino boxer, when it is born in a kennel parents have been subjected to all the controls required by the Federation, and many more are born than those you see in circulation, but since there is no pedigree and cannot be sold at full price, there is no control.

Those who attend the specialized forums have read several times posts of happy human companions of white boxers, their character is that of the boxers and those who love this race loves her for her joy, the desire to live she transmits, the affection she knows how to demonstrate, the reliability that distinguishes her even in the most critical situations.

After all, those who are now a breeder started this way: with a boxer, maybe not beautiful, but typical in character, he fell in love with the breed, he began to know it and to know how to evaluate the individual subjects. With time and experience he managed to have the winning specimen, and what comes from, today he has a breeding. But the experience alone is not enough, it is also necessary to information, correct and punctual, not part of or convenience. Ideas must circulate, opinions must be compared, there must be no arguments uncomfortable, the GPs in some corner, only for those who want to seek them. It is not right to continue to confuse whites with albinos, it is not fair to say that if whites are born the wrong line of blood.

The IFI Club supports more information in this field and where we lack experience, in the sense of statistics and national data, let's look at what happens abroad and try to learn.

White boxers born in Germany, to name just the nation that holds the standard of the breed, have the pedigree, with the only limitation to reproduction, the same happens in Switzerland and Holland.

Our wish is that it may be so in our country too, that white boxers are no longer "sons of anyone" - cubs of whom we are ashamed, but respected and loved as they deserve.

We want to remember what the illustrious Bosi said? "Where there's white, there's kinda"?

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