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Feed him a balanced diet.
Additional tips from owners include:
Give an occasional yogurt treat
Ask your vet about giving Boxers calcium tablets
as they could have some problems later on in life!
Keep him comfortable so his immune system can remain strong.
Boxers are shorthaired and sensitive to extreme elements of the weather
and thus must be kept a housedog. His shortened muzzle also makes hot
and humid weather uncomfortable for him.
Give Boxers lots of exercise and regularly.
Remember that he is a big and strong breed and requires physical outlets
for his boundless energy and high play/prey drive.
Walk them three times a day or have play sessions. Provide plenty of
space for them to bounce around. You want to keep their spirit up and
not break it or they won´t be the dogs you fall in love with in
the first place. Healthy and happy Boxers are a joy to live with.
Make a breeder your friend.
Keep in touch with the breeder who sold you the Boxer. The breeder can
advise you about care and health matters that are unique to the breed.
Any Boxer breeder, for that matter, can be an invaluable ally to you
throughout your Boxer's life.
Guard your Boxer from fleas.
Your Boxer has fleas if you find black specks in the fur or fleabite
marks on the skin. A tip given by an owner is to give your Boxer garlic
daily to prevent fleas.
Boxers catch fleas from other animals. It is an every day problem that,
at some time or another, you can expect to encounter in your Boxer.
The fleas only go to the Boxer to feed on its blood.
Fleas mostly live and multiply in your home. The comfortable living -
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we create for ourselves and our Boxers also work best for the fleas.
De-worm your puppy every month and your adult Boxer, every six months.
Worms is another everyday problem in Boxers but the puppy is more likely
to get sick from worms than the grown up Boxer.
The sick one would lose weight and become weak,
suffer from upset stomach, poor growth, listlessness or even
lung trouble.
They may impede your puppy´s growth and
cause him to have a potbelly or be thin and have a shoddy-looking
coat.
Your grown Boxer may not be showing any sign
of worms but he could spread them more than the sick puppy,
through large amount of larvae or eggs passed out in the
feces.
If your Boxer has tapeworms, he has fleas too
because part of the tapeworm life cycle occurs in flea as
the host. As such, treatments against flea and tapeworm are
normally prescribed together.
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Some, like the roundworm, that infect dogs
can also get passed on to children.
In more serious cases, your dog will catch
cough, pneumonia and develop lung problems.
There are different types of worms that infect
dogs such as tapeworm, roundworm, ringworm and heartworm.
De-worm your Boxer puppy every month and your grown Boxer,
every 6 months.
Puppies get sick from worms, more so than dogs.
But your infected grown Boxers help spread
the worms more through their droppings that would contain
large number of larvae and/or eggs.
Released into the surrounding, these larvae
and eggs could infect other animals and even children.
The tapeworms have a flat, segmented body.
You see them as single segments or chains that
resemble segments of rice in the droppings of infected canine.
Part of the tapeworm´s life cycle occurs
in the flea as the host.
Therefore, if your Boxer has tapeworms, it
has fleas too and the treatments for both are usually prescribed
together by the vet.
The roundworms (toxocara) live and produce
hundreds of eggs in the intestine.
They cause digestive upset in puppies, poor
growth, and thin or out-of-conditioned coat.
The infected puppies may become listless, have
a potbelly or tucked in appearance.
Once the roundworms migrated from the gut to
the lungs, your Boxer can suffer lung damage, cough and pneumonia.
The roundworm eggs in the dog droppings get
passed out and about.
These are very hardy eggs, resistant to heat and
cold, and can survive up to 7 years in the soil. The eggs can
pass on to children through ingestion and cause them to fall sick
as well.
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As precautions, you can toilet train your Boxer
puppy to use a place where you can easily clean up and dispose
of the droppings into the sewer. Have your children wash
their hands every time after they handle the puppies and
discourage your puppies from licking people hands or faces.
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Are Vaccinations for Pets Really Necessary?
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If you have been following the standard guidelines for pet
vaccinations you have probably been submitting your cat or
dog to a painful shot as well as the anxiety of a visit to
the vet every year in an effort to provide them the best health
possible.
Vaccinations are a big business. Owners will spend what they
are told in order to protect their pets and possibly themselves
from contacting scary and deadly diseases such as rabies or
distemper.
However, some veterinarians and pet owners are starting to
question the wisdom and necessity of annual vaccinations.
Dr. Margie Scherk who runs a veterinary clinic
in Vancouver was quoted in a CBC news story as stating that "We
have no reason to think a cat's immune system is different
than
a human's immune system. And we don't get vaccinated every
year."
If this is true, why do vets keep warning us to have our dogs
and cats vaccinated annually?
Possibly some encourage the visits for the monetary benefits,
but it is also a subject that is still fraught with controversy.
Pet owners in general are not anxious to take risks with such
deadly diseases and so until conclusive studies are embraced
by the medical field they will continue with annual vaccinations.
On the other hand, some studies have shown that certain vaccines,
such as the rabies vaccine, may be linked to an increase in
tumors in cats.
Other pet owners have had personal experiences which led them
to believe that vaccines in puppies may have been responsible
for a higher mortality in a healthy litter.
Until these concerns have been researched further, veterinarians
take their own stand on vaccinations. Dr. Kruth, who was also
interviewed by CBC, believes that owners should make decisions
based on the lifestyle of their pet. He explains that hunting
dogs are clearly more at risk for picking up some of these
diseases than a pet kept indoors in the city.
How can pet owners make an educated decision?
There is a lot of information available online, as well as
recommendations
from Associations and veterinary schools which may reflect
the more recent research. However, most individuals will likely
require the experience and recommendation of their family pet's
doctor or shop around to find one who seems to be implementing
newer recommendations. In this case most will suggest a three
year gap between most vaccinations. There are still some diseases
that may require annual shots or even six month shots such
as feline leukemia and kennel cough. do not copy this article!
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