Boxer for sale in the Netherlands

Temperament and training

Boxers are cheerful, active and often exuberant dogs that become strongly attached to their household. They commonly remain playful, can be headstrong and react sensitively to an angry voice. Teach calm greetings, loose-lead walking and ending play before strength and speed increase. They may act boldly towards other dogs. Calm but very consistent reward-based training and careful socialisation suit them better than harsh handling.

Exercise, heat and coat

The short coat needs little brushing but offers limited cold protection. Adults need substantial daily activity with play and mental work, while puppies require gradual joint loading. The shortened muzzle can reduce cooling efficiency. Avoid hot-weather exertion, use a harness and stop for noisy breathing, gagging or slow recovery. A Boxer should move freely and breathe quietly at rest. Reluctance to exercise is not simply laziness.

Health and Dutch breeding criteria

Subaortic stenosis, chronic kidney disease, cystitis, cruciate injury, spondylosis or DISH and several cancers are leading Dutch concerns. Breed clubs require hip assessment and cardiac Doppler echography. NBC also requires spinal radiographs for spondylosis. Ask for original results and kidney, spinal and tumour history. Because of the shorter skull, Dutch breeding criteria for respiration, nostrils, muzzle, nose fold and eyes also apply. Request the veterinary declaration.