Breed dogs for breed preservation and rare or newly imported breeds? Advertise here
Buyers and trainers use this page to find breeders whose lines do this work. List your kennel free, tick the industries your dogs work in, and advertise litters and stud dogs from proven working lines.
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Is it free to advertise here?
Yes. A breeder profile and your litter and stud dog adverts are free. Premium profiles, featured placement and sponsored articles are optional paid extras; see pricing.
Do I need a licence to advertise puppies?
In England you need a dog breeding licence from your council if you breed three or more litters in 12 months or breed and sell dogs as a business, and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes. Licensed breeders show their licence number and issuing council on every advert. Puppies must be at least eight weeks old before they go to new homes.
Is my listing already here?
We add licensed breeders from councils' public registers. Search for your kennel name; if it is listed you can claim it and edit everything.
About breed preservation and rare or newly imported breeds
Not every breed has thousands of registrations. Some are long established but tiny in number; others are new to Britain. This page explains how preservation breeders keep rare dog breeds going in the UK, how the Imported Breed Register works and what to check before you buy.
What this work involves
Preservation breeding means sustaining a breed from a small population: tracking relationships between dogs, using the Royal Kennel Club’s genetic diversity calculator to check inbreeding coefficients, health screening, and bringing in unrelated dogs from abroad when the home population becomes too closely related.
New breeds have an extra stage. A breed arriving in the UK can be recognised by the Royal Kennel Club and placed on the Imported Breed Register. An application for recognition should show that there are at least 20 dogs of the breed in the UK, preferably unrelated, provide pedigrees of at least three generations and set out known breed-specific health conditions. Recognition allows registration and entry to activities such as agility, obedience and working trials, but dogs cannot be exhibited until an interim breed standard is published, and even then they are limited to certain classes, matches and companion shows.
A breed moves from the Imported Breed Register to the full Breed Register at the discretion of the Royal Kennel Club’s Board, on application from the breed club. The policy looks at the size of the gene pool and the breeding lines available in the UK, and the club must have appointed a breed education co-ordinator and held a breed appreciation day and a breed standard exam in the 12 months before applying. Only after transfer can the breed enter breed classes at shows, which is the last step in full recognition of a new breed.
Who trains and supplies these dogs in the UK
Private breeders supply these puppies, usually working closely with their breed club. The Royal Kennel Club administers the Imported Breed Register, decides on recognition and transfer, and records health test results for registered dogs. Breed clubs apply for transfer, run breed education and often run health surveys. Foundation dogs usually come from overseas breeders, so import paperwork, overseas pedigrees and health results matter. Owners train their own dogs.
Breeds and lines
This covers numerically small breeds on the Breed Register, including the vulnerable native breeds, and breeds on the Imported Breed Register. The Imported Breed Register list changes as breeds are recognised or transferred: the Korthals Griffon, White Swiss Shepherd Dog and Standard Xoloitzcuintle, for example, move to the Breed Register on 1 January 2027. Check a breed’s status in the Royal Kennel Club Breeds A to Z. Good preservation breeders can explain where their lines came from, how related they are to other UK dogs and what they plan to import next.
What to ask a breeder
- Is the breed on the Breed Register or the Imported Breed Register, and what does that mean for registering and showing this puppy?
- Roughly how many dogs of the breed are in the UK, and how closely related are the parents to the rest of the population?
- Where were the parents or grandparents imported from, and do you hold their overseas pedigrees and health results?
- Were imported breeding dogs tested for Brucella canis?
- Which inherited conditions are known in the breed, and how are you screening for them?
- Is the breed club working towards transfer to the Breed Register?
Legal and welfare notes
Dogs brought into Great Britain must be microchipped before their rabies vaccination, wait at least 21 full days after the first vaccination, and usually need tapeworm treatment between one and five days before arrival, plus the correct pet travel document. Where a dog will be sold, rehomed or transferred to a new owner, extra commercial rules, known as Balai rules, apply. Dogs that do not meet the rules can be quarantined for up to four months at the owner’s expense.
The Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Act 2025, which received Royal Assent on 2 December 2025, requires the first regulations made under it to ban imports of dogs and cats under six months old, more than 42 days pregnant or mutilated, for example with cropped ears. Those provisions start only when commencement regulations are made, so check the current position before importing. Since 7 October 2025, dogs commercially imported into Great Britain from Romania must test negative for Brucella canis before travel, a step the British Veterinary Association welcomed. Government guidance says the infection can cause infertility and miscarriage in dogs and that antibiotic treatment is not recommended because infection often continues. In England, breeding three or more litters in any 12-month period, or breeding dogs and advertising a business of selling dogs, requires a council licence.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Imported Breed Register?
It is the Royal Kennel Club register for newly recognised breeds, letting dogs be registered and pedigrees recorded while the breed builds numbers in the UK, before any move to the full Breed Register.
Can I show a dog from the Imported Breed Register?
Only after an interim breed standard is published, and then only in certain classes, matches and companion shows. Breed classes, and with them Challenge Certificates and Champion titles, are only open once a breed has moved to the full Breed Register.
Are rare breeds healthier than popular ones?
Not automatically. A small gene pool can concentrate inherited conditions, so health testing, careful matings and honest record-keeping matter even more in a rare breed than in a common one.
If you are a preservation breeder of a numerically small or newly imported breed, you can list your kennel on Canine Breeder and explain your lines, imports and health testing to buyers prepared to wait for the right puppy.