About Bishop's Boxers

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We have been a Boxer-loving family since 1987. Our love for the breed began with our first boxer, Chesty. Purchased from a California pet store, Chesty was extremely intelligent and trained closely with military police dogs, becoming highly skilled in search and rescue.

After losing Chesty to cancer and knowing we didn't want to experience life without Boxers, we purchased a striking 8-month-old fawn male Boxer from Crossroad Boxers in California. We named him Bishop. Little did we realize that he would be the beginning of our kennel, Bishop's Boxers.

Bishop participated in many dog shows while we had time in graduate school, but then came four children and 16 years of active duty military life. Having the desire to have a puppy from Bishop and the determination to uphold and improve the standard of the Boxer breed, we bred Bishop and kept a puppy, Lady, from the litter in February of 2005. Lady produced two wonderful litters of puppies with Telstar Boxers. We continued our breeding program with Telstar Boxers and Eve, Lady’s daughter, until we retired from the military in 2016.

As we transitioned back into civilian life, we paused our breeding program for nearly five years and are pleased to introduce our two new Telstar females, Callie and Prancer. Our goal at Bishop’s Boxers is to be dedicated to breeding and raising healthy, beautiful dogs with affectionate temperaments and sound structure in accordance with the AKC Boxer breed standard. The health and well-being of all our animals from birth until they leave with their forever family--and beyond--is critical to us. We utilize current recommended health tests before breeding to provide our puppies the best opportunity for a long, healthy life.

Our puppies are raised by our family with children and other dogs. They play an active and very important role in caring for, preparing, and socializing the puppies for their future families. As a result, the puppies leave our home with a clear advantage in adapting and transitioning to their new families.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Boxer Puppies Will Be Arriving Soon!

1...2...3...4...5...6...

7...8...9...

...10!

I think my jaw literally dropped this morning when Dr. Simpson had me come look at the X-ray.  Ten puppies, seriously. Even he was a little surprised by the number.  Average litter size for boxers is 6.  It's no wonder why Eve is so huge!  Well, we will certainly have a busy home for the next few months.  We're praying they are all healthy little ones and that Eve will have an easy time delivering them all.

If you haven't noticed from our past litters, our family picks a theme for their kennel names (the names we call them while at our kennel; new owners usually rename them).  Our first theme was Bible names, next was Santa's reindeer names (they were born December 23), and the last were candy names.  The theme of the names for this upcoming litter is sodas--or pop--depending on which region of the U.S. you are from.  We'll need to add a few more names to our list.

Any updates will be posted on this blog as soon as we get them, so check back in a couple days to see Eve's progress.  We anticipate that they might make their debut sometime this coming weekend.

You can't see it from this angle, but her sides are bulging.

With 10 inside, she's one tired lady. Lately, she spends her days like this, trying to be comfortable.


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Our first boxer Chesty. He wasn't the most beautiful boxer, but certainly well-loved!

Bishop at 9 months

Bishop about 1 year

Our last picture with Bishop (July 2008)

Lady