We put a lot of time and reflection into choosing a stud dog for Emma’s second litter. We considered another full-UK litter, including a repeat to Harley, but in the end decided that we didn’t want to breed UK Boxers in the US (though there’s actually a demand for those dogs); we got into the UK lines to add traits to the NA lines we had, rather than abandoning them entirely or keeping two separate lines going. We certainly are open to doing full-UK breedings in the future, but since we had already done that with Emma, we decided in instead to see how the UK would blend with other lines for her second trip to the whelping box.
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