From the AKC standard on the Boxer:
"Head:
"The beauty of the head depends upon the harmonious proportion of muzzle to skull. The blunt muzzle is 1/3 the length of the head from the occiput to the tip of the nose, and 2/3rds the width of the skull. The head should be clean, not showing deep wrinkles (wet). Wrinkles typically appear upon the forehead when ears are erect, and are always present from the lower edge of the stop running downward on both sides of the muzzle."
In the official standard, there does not seem to be any mention of the plane of the Boxer's forehead, which points down in a 45 degree angle to the tip of the dog's nose. Nor does the standard seem to mention the pronounced stop of the dog, which seems to be practically vertical or 90 degrees. Both of these common characteristics are evident in the Munich silhouette, but not in the written standard.
Would it be permissible for a Boxer
a) to have no plane of the forehead, but rather have a rounded head, and
b) to have a less pronounced stop, perhaps at 72 degrees or so?
I am guessing that it could be permitted but it would not be a show winner.
And people who see the dog might say, "Um, is your dog part Rottweiler or Bulldog?..."
