Boxers For Sale!

After months of looking for Boxers, I had just about decided to go ahead and spend the money on a reliable breeder here in the community that had been recommended to me.

And then came that fateful phone call.

From my daughter.

Saying she had found a boxer breeder close by, and she had picked out a puppy. She had named him Charley. And guess what? They still had puppies left in the litter. And one of them was a female runt.

A FEMALE RUNT???!!!! That's exactly what I was looking for. A female runt. Female boxers run smaller than male boxers, and runts should generally be small. And guess what else, she said. She's BLACK!! All my research told me there was really no such thing as a black boxer. But my daughter said, although the dogs were not AKC registered, both the parents were boxers. And guess what? They were selling them for $200! $200? Wow. That's cheap, I thought. Way better than I expected to pay to the reliable breeder.

I bet YOU hear those bells and whistles going off. I wish I had. Black? Not AKC registered? $200?

I should have stopped right there.

I should have known better. But my heart was beating louder than my inner voice was speaking. And I forgot everything else but that there seemed to be a puppy with MY name on it.

I asked my daughter to call the owners and tell them to hold the puppy for me. I would be down the following weekend.

The week flew by, mainly because of a continual stream of pictures of my daughter's newest addition to her family. Charley was adorable and sort of roly poly. I bet the female runt would be just about the same: adorable and roly poly.

 It's probably a good thing I don't gamble. (hint: I "bet" the female runt would be...)

'Cause, boy, was I ever wrong!

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