Boxers

=media type="custom" key="7204003"__Dog #7: Boxers__= Developed in Germany, the **Boxer** is a breedof stocky, large size, short-haired dog. The coat is smooth and fawn, brindled, white, or even reverse brindled with or without white markings. Boxers are brschycephalic (they have broad, short skulls), and have a square muzzle, mandibular prognathism (an underbite), very strong jaws and a powerful bite ideal for hanging on to large prey. The Boxer was bred from the English Bulldog and the now extinct Bullenbeisser and is part of the Molosser, mastiffgroup. Boxers were first exhibited in a dog show for St. Bernards at Munich in 1895, the first Boxer club being founded the next year. Based on 2009 [|American Kennel Club] statistics, Boxers are the sixth most popular breed of dog in the United States for the third year in a row—moving up in 2007 from the seventh spot, which they'd held since 2002. It should also be noted that there are 3 types of boxer, the English boxer, the american boxer, and the German boxer. american being at the bottom of the size and weight range, and German being at the top. Information from Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(dog)