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Winn Creek Boxers is a small American & European AKC Registered Boxer Kennel located in Haw River, NC. While Haw River is a small town, we are centrally located within the state — about 3 1/2 hours to the beach and roughly the same distance to the mountains. My love affair with Boxers began in 1998 with the purchase of my first Boxer, Shere Khan Winnix of Winn Creek (Khan). In January 2010, Shere Khan passed away, after giving me 11 wonderful years of companionship and love. While Khan was in his prime I conducted a lot of research regarding breeding Boxers through different venues: surfing the internet, speaking with Boxer breeders, and attending dog shows. After concluding this research I decided not to breed Khan and that is where my search started for a foundation for my kennel. I feel the mixture of Champion American & European bloodlines will produce a great looking and healthy Boxer, and as such I currently have Boxers from both bloodlines.
A lot of people ask me why I chose unusual names for my dogs — especially the veterinary staff that takes care of my Boxers, as they always love to try to pronounce my dog's names when I bring them in! When I was young I loved the book titled The Jungle Book and the tiger in the story was named Shere Khan. When my Shere Khan was a pup his stripes made him look just like a little tiger and the thought came to me to name him after the tiger in the Jungle Book story. As for my other boxers, I started with a Greek theme and it has kind of stuck on me. I have always loved studying Greek Mythology but I didn't want to do the usual 'Zeus' and 'Apollo' that most people use. So after researching Greek Mythological Gods & Goddesses' names, I chose less mainstream ones for my dogs, and I have also used words from the Greek language itself to name some of my dogs. Read about each of them under their respective names on the Current Males & Females and Foundation Males & Females pages.
While I do not currently show my dogs in conformation or Schutzund, it is one of my long term goals that I am looking forward to achieving. Currently I am focusing on using my foundation stock to better the Boxer breed as a whole, and to that end I offer a health guarantee on all the dogs I produce. I health test all of my Boxers for the ARVC gene, the DM gene, and a complete Thyroid panel is also done. Each dog's test results can be found under their respective names on the Current Males & Females page of the website. You can learn more about these and other Boxer related health tests on the Health Testing page.
My dogs live inside with me 24/7 and have grown up with my three children — which means that the temperament of the Boxers that I own and breed is of utmost importance. Feel free to look around my site, and enjoy the pictures of my Boxers. If you have questions or want to just talk about Boxers in general, give me a call!
Kim Haynes
Winn Creek Boxers
Haw River, North Carolina
(336) 263-7534
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