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Why are boxers tails so short?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Historically it's because they were cut off (docked) when the dogs were young. Recently this practice has fallen out of favor, and breeders have developed naturally short-tailed Boxers by selective breeding.

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