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Box Heeler

Boxer / Heeler Mixed Breed Dogs

Information and Pictures

A brown brindle with white Box Heeler is sitting on a couch and its head is tilted to the right.

Chance the Box Heeler at 11 months old

Other Names
  • Boxer Cattle Dog
  • Box Cattle Dog
Description

The Box Heeler is not a purebred dog. It is a cross between the Boxer and the Australian Cattle Dog, also called the Blue or Red Heeler also called the Australian Cattle Dog. The best way to determine the temperament of a mixed breed is to look up all breeds in the cross and know you can get any combination of any of the characteristics found in either breed. Not all of these designer hybrid dogs being bred are 50% purebred to 50% purebred. It is very common for breeders to breed multi-generation crosses.

(Note: the Blue Heeler is also called Australian Heeler, Hall's Heeler, Queensland Heeler, Australian Cattle Dog, Australian Cattledog and Australischer Treibhund.)

Recognition
  • DRA = Dog Registry of America, Inc.
The right side of a brown brindle with white Box Heeler that is laying across an arm chair and it is looking forward.

Chance the Box Heeler at 11 months old

The right side of a brown brindle with white Box Heeler that is laying down on its right side, on a bed.

Chance the Box Heeler at 11 months old

The front right side of a brown brindle with white Box Heeler that is laying on a carpet and its front left paw is overtop of a bone toy.

Chance the Box Heeler at 11 months old

A brown brindle with white Box Heeler that is sitting in a chair. Its right paw is on the arm of the couch.

Chance the Box Heeler at 11 months old

Topdown view of a brown brindle with white Box Heeler puppy that is sitting on a carpet and next to it is a sitting person in pink.

Chance the Box Heeler as a puppy at 4 months old

The right side of a brown brindle with white Box Heeler puppy is laying across a tiled floor and it is looking up.

Sandi the Australian Cattle Dog / Boxer mix breed puppy at 3 months old

The left side of a brown brindle with white Box Heeler that is laying across grass.

Sandi the Australian Cattle Dog / Boxer mix breed at 8 months old

The front left side of a white with gray on its ears Box Heeler puppy that is laying on wood chips and it is in the process of rolling over.

Female Boxer / Heeler mix puppy

The back left side of a white with gray on its ears box heeler puppy that is laying down on wood chips with its head between its front paws.

Female Boxer / Heeler mix puppy

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