White Boxer

Why is an illogical answer received to a logical question?

Translated from the Italian original.

What you will read below is the extremely twisted and logical bureaucratic process, to which a breeder, who has always fought for the boxer breed, must follow to obtain pedigree with the correct wording of the cloak. Who knows historicalman the boxer race, knows perfectly that there is a difference between the colors of the cloak. In fact, there is the playful, the tiger and the white one. Purtoppo, for it is not well known what reasons, the body of the Italian cynophilia, has well thought that these three colors were already more than even, forgetting completely the cut boxer.
Historically, in addition to colored boxers, white boxers and cut boxers were regularly registered in the original book. This is because it is a mistake to define white as a boxer with more or less diffuse coloured spots on the cape, as for white boxers, only those subjects who have white cape should be understood.

So a breeder who decides to enter a litter, specifying in the correct way the colors, is confronted with answers, provided by the body of the Italian cynophilia, to say the least absurd. In fact after sending the completed forms in the correct way, the answer of the body is: "The color of the mantle is missing." The color of the mantle is absolutely not missing and is written in the correct way, white is one thing, tiger another, Falvo another and if I have a puppy whose color is sliced, fill the form specifying just this. Also why, why should I specify the color of the white mantle, when it is actually sliced?

Following this response, another one comes, again from the body responsible for the protection of Italian cynophilia. In this second letter, we no longer talk about the colour of the mantle, but some lines of the breed standard are reported, with precision the part relative to the defects and specifically the color, that is that the white must not exceed more than 1/3 of the mantle. In this regard, I do not understand what the standard has to do with the request of pedigree for a litter, because precisely that part of the standard, refers to the defects, more or less important and referring to the judgments on display. Defect is not only more than   1/3 of the white mantle, but also the monorchids, or those subjects that have the legs of the vaccine or much more. Certainly it is the task of a judge in the stable expositive phase what is more important and less important defect, among all those listed in the standard of race. the thing that seems immediately contradictory, however, is that the subject who participates in the exhibitions is an account and very different is the use of the subjects in reproduction.

If I have a very nice boxer, but at the same time dysplasia or with heart or character problems, I will certainly exclude that subject from reproduction, on the contrary if I have a subject, which has one of the defects listed in the standard, such as too high height or the opposite, from a proper pairing, can be born of good healthy and balanced subjects. For so far, I cannot understand the answers received from the body of the cynophilia, because at the request of a simple pedigree in which was specified the correct color of the cape, the agency first responds that I have forgotten to insert the color of the cape and then responds with a defect listed in the standard, leaving out all the other defects.

External linkLettera dell'ENCI del 21 Aprile 2008External linkLettera dell'ENCI del 22 Aprile 2008PDF documentLettera di risposta all'ENCI del 9 Maggio 2008External linkIncontri con il boxer pag. 145External linkIncontri con il boxer pag. 146

Italian Boxer Club - Boxer BiancoFurther details on Boxer White visiting the dedicated section on the site .