IN MEMORY OF ANNA ROSENSTREICH

HEXENHAUS BOXERS

BOXER BREEDER AND EXHIBITOR
NEW ZEALAND

In 2009, I received an email from Daniela Rosenstreich infoming me that her mother, Anna Rosenstreich of Hexenhaus Boxers, in New Zealand and Western Australia, had passed away shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. Daniela and her siblings wanted to make a significant donation to the Foundation as a tribute to their beloved mother who devoted a good deal of her life to our breed.

In response to my query, Daniela gathered an “album” of pictures (a painful trip down memory lane as can be imagined) and wrote a brief biography of Anna’s life with her Boxers. Please celebrate the life of this remarkable woman who loved, trained, cared for and developed her kennel “down under.”

We are honored that her family members Daniela, Gabi, Michael and Silvia chose to remember her by making significant donations to the American Boxer Charitable Foundation Memorial Endowment so that we may further our research to benefit our Boxers.

Sharon Fosseen, Treasurer
American Boxer Charitable Foundation
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Biography and picture album prepared by Daniela Rosenstreich

Anna Rosenstreich, Hexenhaus Boxers

Anna Rosenstreich passed away on 3rd October 2008 after a brief battle with cancer. Anna had been breeding and showing Boxers since the early 1970s under the ‘Hexenhaus’ prefix, first in New Zealand, and then Western Australia.

Anna should be remembered for what she achieved with her boxers in a variety of arenas. From the start Anna focused on temperament and working ability and her boxers competed in obedience, utility, and tracking trials in New Zealand – it was (and still is) a relatively rare thing to see a Boxer in these events.

What made the Hexenhaus Boxers extra special was that the boxers Anna trialed in the highest level of obedience competition in New Zealand also carried conformation titles and Specialty in Show awards. Anna also helped others to be able to learn to work with their dogs – she was involved in obedience club administration and instructing for decades and is still fondly remembered at the Otago Canine Training Club. After the move to rural Western Australia it was harder for Anna to be involved in working events, but she continued to train and compete in local obedience club events.

Anna achieved great success as a breeder, with her home bred boxers doing very well in the conformation ring – both those she kept and showed herself, and those owned by others. Hexenhaus boxers appear in many other Boxer lines and Anna helped several breeders to get their start in the breed.

In her breeding program Anna stayed true to her idea of correct conformation and ignored passing fashions or convenient shortcuts. This meant the quality of her boxers was not always recognized by local all-breeds judges, but she had great success under international specialist judges, achieving Best in Specialty Show wins with several different home-bred Hexenhaus boxers over the years.

However, Anna’s dogs were never ‘just’ show or performance dogs. They were 100% part of her family. The love Anna had for boxers is probably best reflected in the fact that she seemed to value the photos and phone calls from happy puppy owners more than the show trophies that littered her home.

Given her devotion to the boxer breed, the Rosenstreich family chose to honour her memory with several bequests and memorial trophies, one of which was a major donation to the ABCF. Anna would have appreciated the fact that she will be able to continue to enhance the quality of life of Boxers for many years, thanks to the research the bequest will support.