![]() Also, if this post violates the BW rule, I won't post about the issue again. Sorry this is so long but I was very disturbed to see so many breeder sites advertising these dogs and just wondered if there was anything that could be done about it. Is there nothing that can be done to prevent breeders from selling these dogs as purebred boxers? Does the AKC have some procedure whereby these breeders can be reported for registering non-purebred dogs? At the least, I would think it violates consumer protection laws to sell a dog as purebred when it is a genetic impossibility. My first thought was that the dogs had been crossed with a great dane or other dog similar in build to a boxer but that carried a solid black coat gene. Although labeled "sealed brindle", these dogs were not brindle or reverse brindle. To the contrary, I was appalled that these breeders were advertising as purebred boxers, dogs and puppies that are CLEARLY not purebred boxers. ![]() I absolutely have no intention of promoting such breeders or these purported black boxers. I wanted to post a question about it but wasn't sure about the extent of the BW rule regarding black boxers, i.e., no posts referencing black boxers in anyway or no posts promoting them as being a purebred boxer. I too have seen many references to and pictures of so-called "sealed brindle" boxers by purported reputable breeders claiming to have owned boxers for many years. There is more information about coat colour inheritance at And what to look out for in breeders advertising so-called black boxers on our FAQ page You should also note the following from the rules: A black boxer is like a brindle rottweiler: the only way to get one is to breed a boxer with some other breed that does carry that gene (labradors, for example). And that is something that is very well documented by canine geneticists. The gene for solid black coat colour simply does not exist within the boxer gene pool. It is a genetic impossibility for a boxer to be purebred and also black. Once again, it is a description of a shade of brindle only. "Seal" brindle is a term used in some parts of Canada to describe the same colour that is called "reverse" brindle in the US. You might like to note that although the US and Canadian boxer standards allow for "reverse" or "seal" brindle dogs, most (possibly all) other boxer standards round the world describes the colour as undesirable or even a named fault (same goes for light brindle).ΔΆ. You probably (possibly) have a higher chance of producing dark brindle pups from dark brindle parents - but certainly not in any predictable manner. Two dark brindles might produce a litter of fawn puppies. ![]() A light brindle dog mated with a fawn might produce dark brindle puppies. Since there is nothing genetically different about dark brindle dogs (including reverse/seal brindle) you cannot breed "for" it. These simply describe the shade of fawn ground colour, exactly the same as for differing shades of solid fawn boxers. And in between all that, there is "golden" brindle, "fawn" brindle, "brown" brindle, "red" brindle, "mahogany" brindle, etc. The opposite is "light" brindle - describing a dog that has very few brindle stripes. There is nothing genetically different about any of the shades of brindle - just a matter of how many stripes the dog has. It is a term used in North America simply to describe a dog that has such a heavy concentration of brindle stripes so as to have the appearance of being a dark dog with fawn stripes (as opposed to a fawn dog with dark stripes). ![]() "Reverse" brindle is not a colour that is any different to any other shade of brindle. ![]()
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