![]() I've let the lady I bought the dog know about everything and she does seem concerned, but thats it. We had to pay £400+ for the Cardiologist fees and will have to pay the same again 6 months later. The vet has told us that as he detected a heart murmur at 9 weeks old, and this is pre existing and we are uninsured. The problem is we only insured him after his first jags. We have to go back in 6 months time for an Ultrasound and ECG again to check if it has progressed. He maybe fine if it doesn't worsen more than it is, but if it does the prospect is not good. She said that Aortic Stenosis is common in Boxers. This was confirmed by the Cardiologist via an Ultrasound and ECG at an appointment 1 week later and she graded his heart murmur at Mild to Moderate. Our vet listened to his heart and said he suspected it was Aortic Stenosis as he still had this murmur and refered us to a Cardiologist. Very worried now we contacted our vet and took him over the next day. We lifted him inside and he was still like this for a few minutes and also urinated. He started chasing a leaf and got very excited again and his legs went from under him and he lay dazed. 2 weeks later we let him out the back garden for fresh air. He was his normal fine self, so we put it to the back of our minds. So as it was the weekend, we thought we'd leave and see how he was. We panicked a little but 5 mins later he was fine. ![]() We lifted him up held him and he was a little dazed. ![]() 5 mins in and quite hyper, suddenly his front legs gave way and he kinda fainted. 15 weeks old, we took him to a small fenced off park to run about. On the 2nd visit a vet nurse gave him his 2nd jag and checked him over, never mentioning the murmer, even though checking previous notes. The vet informed us that he had a slight murmur which is common and that he would re-check this on the 2nd jag visit. We took him to our local vet for his first jag within a few days. We picked the dog up at 8 weeks old and took him home. He's been KC registered and we have a 5 gen history with him. The seller also said that the pup was murmur free, just like his parents. The pup was wormed and had the basic checks by their vet and we were told everything was ok. We picked the first pup who has beautiful markings and was male, just what we were looking for. We seen the pics on a social network site first even before the pups were being offered for sale and enquired this way. We bought a 'Pedigree' Boxer pup for £700 from a private seller who has 3x adult boxers at home (mum, dad & uncle).
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