As I was getting ready to look for our boxer puppy, I spent A LOT of time looking on this website, finding info on what I was going to need to look for in a breeder. I've read a lot of posts on here from people who are going through the process also. It kind of seems to me that there are not enough puppies available from good breeders to meet the demand. I know when I was looking, we were on a waiting list for possibly getting a puppy in August, but if the litter was small, more females, etc... we would've been waiting until next April. This was the only breeder that I ever heard back from that even had any planned litters for this year. I also emailed my local boxer club for further recommendations, but never heard back from them. I ended up finding a puppy through a breeder who is in true definition a byb. She did do things that were important to me though, health test Mom and Dad, stand by her puppies with a 1 year health gurantee, ask that we bring the puppy back to her at anytime if we could no longer provide a home (showing she took responsibility for the litter and cared), but she doesn't show her dogs, and so she is not working to improve the breed standard, which I understand gets her into the byb category. Anyway, I didn't want to wait a year to get the puppy. I don't have ANY plans to breed or show, we just wanted a family pet. I know I'm taking more of a risk, but anyway, that is not what this post is about. It just seems like there aren't enough puppies from good breeders. I'm sure that is because they are not breeding to produce litters of pet puppies, and from what I understand, they lose money, not make money on producing a litter. My pie in the sky wish is that there was a way to produce more boxer puppies from good breeders to meet the demand. Obviously the bybs are still around because there is the demand for their dogs. So who wants to undertake that and provide all those puppies while losing all their money
Carla