White Boxer: Let's disassemble some myths and legends

We are pleased to publish this testimony which confirms what we have been supporting for years.

What we are about to tell you is a wonderful love story between a family and a little dog, a beautiful white boxer that came to us as its breeders, having mistakenly considered it "albino," had decided to suppress... it will not surprise you to know, therefore, that the name, of what in the immediate became a component to all the effects of our family, is Lucky, English word that means precisely "Fortuned"... with the hindsight of then, to tell the truth, those lucky we were just us, as Lucky, with his infinite affection, with his loyalty, his loyalty, his euphoricity, colored 14 years of our lives and improved us as people.

As we had just said, we were told that this little puppy of a boxer, with the white cape and a brown spot on the left ear, was a "albino" dog; our goal, with these few simple lines, is not only to tell you our experience but also to disprove, with a direct testimony, myths and legends on the white boxer. Albinism is a genetic disease that involves various problems, those who are affected can suffer damage exposing themselves to sunlight and show problems related to sight and hearing; we assure you, as profanes whom we are, to give an example, that our dog spent days lying in the sun and that this has never been a problem!

Lucky arrived at our house in the morning of July 10, 1998 and as time passed we realized that none of the problems associated with literature to albinism in dogs had invested him, although they had labeled him just as a "albino" boxer because of his unique white coat; although in the light of the facts more than the singular term seems more suitable to use the special word. Lucky never had problems with his sight, the veterinarian warned us of the possible formation of cataracts, one of the most common problems among older dogs, but, even in this case, nothing! Strange not?! A "albino" boxer without sight and I will tell you more, a "albino" boxer without sight for 14 years. To be honest, however, only in the last 2 weeks of life had a slight conjunctivitis.

As mentioned above, other problems associated with albinism are related to hearing and skin. We cannot tell you such problems in what consist in how our boxer "albino" was never subject to it, never had any complication due to exposure to the sun, in fact, as mentioned before, loved the light and every ray of sun in the yard was his! Problems of smell? A single episode will make the idea better. On Sunday night at Cuoco we are used to buy pizza, from good Salernos as we are; given the architectural structure of the house, to return home, it is inevitable the passage in the garden and then next to Lucky the glutton, who, even if he was intent on performing one of his usual naps, could smell the smell of pizza and bark until someone allowed him to take part in the dinner by assaggiandone a small piece... from good Salernitano which was also!!

The literature always teaches us that albinism also provides for reduced resistance to diseases but our Lucky never had particular problems in this sense; the boxers, in general as a race, are subject to heart problems but, again, strangely our boxer, I repeat, mistakenly defined "albino," never had heart problems indeed... his heart, besides being metaphorically great and full of love for us, was also considered by his very strong veterinarian.

We can continue to the endless but we leave you only with one last observation and testimony of our life with a boxer considered "albino." Normally the boxers live 9 or maximum 10 years, Lucky was with us 14 and without having any of the problems related to albinism. We, from the first years of life of our puppy we realized that the white cape was simply the color of his hair and not, as the most make believe, an evident element associated with albinism. Lucky, who breeders only theoretically more experienced than we had defined "albino," was simply a specimen of boxer with the white cape, with the same affectionate, loyal, sociable, sweet, exuberant, humorous and the same inarrestable joy of living of the Boxers with a mulvo or tiger cloak.

After all these chatter and remarks, would someone be kind enough to explain why they should have suppressed him? He was a perfectly healthy dog, why deny him the possibility of having a long life without disease, as it was then?! Why, unlike other boxers, with "normale" coat, is this variant not allowed to reproduce?

For years the white boxer has been discredited and labelled as sick dog and this has caused the choice of many breeders to fall on their suppression or omission of their existence, in order not to ruin the good name of the breeding. Our advice is to do so by those kennels that, even, on the internet sites do not show photos of white boxers, making this pass as a rare condition, which, as the literature teaches us, is to say the least impossible! In fact, given to the hand show that one boxer in four is born white and that the latter, simply, is one of the colors predicted genetically. You have to stop thinking that it is a defect or a disease. Racism is already widely diffused among men, we will not even be able to repay you in a way that is difficult to describe and, above all, to imagine... it is the way that you are black, yellow or white for them does not matter... if you can give it love and care, they will know how to repay you in a way that it is difficult to describe and, above all, to imagine... it is the way that you are "understandable" that this way, has only to live, really had to live this wonderful, only for who has had the way, really had to live, wonderful, has been had to live it, really, and has been had to live it for them, really, and labelled as a way, and labelled as a bad as a bad way, and labelled as a dog sick dog and it has been, and it has been, and it has been bad.

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