I just put up a whole bunch of pictures of her, if anyone cares to see.
(and if you scroll down, you get a couple of pictures of my German Shep
from last summer, before he passed away.)

http://miedvied.blogspot.com

Miedvied wrote in message ...
I just put up a whole bunch of pictures of her, if anyone cares to see.
(and if you scroll down, you get a couple of pictures of my German Shep
from last summer, before he passed away.)

http://miedvied.blogspot.com

Sorry to hear about your german sheperd but i know you will be very
very happy with your new boxer, they are the best dogs on the
planet!!!

wrote:
Miedvied wrote in message ...

I just put up a whole bunch of pictures of her, if anyone cares to see.
(and if you scroll down, you get a couple of pictures of my German Shep
from last summer, before he passed away.)

http://miedvied.blogspot.com


Sorry to hear about your german sheperd but i know you will be very
very happy with your new boxer, they are the best dogs on the
planet!!!


Unfortunately, I returned her to the breeder today - while I never had
allergies with Blake, Ashes (my boxer) aggravated my allergies horribly.
She also did so to my parents, who didn't even know they *had* allergies.

Even so, I absolutely love her. She was very intelligent, very
affectionate, a quick learner and an absolute gem with people and
children. To me, she stands as a testament to quality breeding, and a
reminder of why it is that dogs are man's best friend.

I was very sorry to see her go, but I will forever be a vocal and
enthusiastic supporter of Jacquet's Boxers (www.jacquetboxers.com) and
of the breed as a whole - she was /remarkable/.

Miedvied said in rec.pets.dogs.misc:

I was very sorry to see her go, but I will forever be a
vocal and enthusiastic supporter of Jacquet's Boxers
(www.jacquetboxers.com) and of the breed as a whole - she
was /remarkable/.

I'm sure that Ashes was remarkable, and I'm sorry that you had
to return her. I can't imagine going through something like
that.

I looked at Ashes' breeder's website, and maybe the full story
isn't there, but what makes you enthusiastic about them as a
breeder of a dog for you?

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

Rocky wrote:
Miedvied said in rec.pets.dogs.misc:


I was very sorry to see her go, but I will forever be a
vocal and enthusiastic supporter of Jacquet's Boxers
(www.jacquetboxers.com) and of the breed as a whole - she
was /remarkable/.


I'm sure that Ashes was remarkable, and I'm sorry that you had
to return her. I can't imagine going through something like
that.

I looked at Ashes' breeder's website, and maybe the full story
isn't there, but what makes you enthusiastic about them as a
breeder of a dog for you?

Well, I was first tipped off when I saw the AKC Breed Book for boxers,
and the pictures throughout the book were almost exclusively of Jacquet
boxers (all champions.)

I then went to the breeder, met the various sires they kept on-site,
and they were all gorgeous, well-behaved dogs.

I then spent an hour playing with Ashes, before I settled on her, saw
the papers, et al. Met all the people that work with the dogs. Took her
home. Lived with her for a week.

I can say, for one thing, that the people at this kennel honestly *love*
their dogs. Rick is probably the biggest dog-lover I've ever seen in my
life. And, as to their skill at breeding, ... their dogs are amazing.
I've played with several of them (most of them champions, a couple not
because of small problems - one, for instance, had ears that tipped
inward) and all were amazingly beautiful, well-tempered dogs. Ashes,
specifically, was an extremely fast learner, wonderful with people,
other dogs, my nieces (the oldest of them only 3)... et al.

Rick's a nice guy, but Jacquet nowadays mostly stacks shows to make
champions, which you can do if you breed 10,000 litters/year, and put
breeding contracts on all of them.

"Kennel making most champions" is one of those awards that doesn't take
into account the fact that people can supply enough dogs to a local
show to virtually guarantee wins for their dogs. In actual competition
there hasn't been much going on for them in recent years.