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Bernese Mountain Dog puppies

Bernese Mountain Dog puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise Bernese Mountain Dog puppies for sale

Have a Bernese Mountain Dog litter due or ready? Advertise it here with the mother's details, health test results and your licence number, and link it to your free breeder profile.

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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.

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We add licensed breeders from councils' public registers. Search for your kennel name; if it is listed you can claim it and edit everything.

Buying a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy

Bernese Mountain Dog puppies grow into heavy dogs that take years to mature, so plan for short, gentle outings with plenty of rest in the early months and regular brushing for life. Before you reserve a Bernese puppy, ask to see both parents' hip scores and elbow grades, their DM DNA results and their Antagene histio results, and check that the puppy will be RKC registered and microchipped before it goes home at eight weeks or older. Meet the litter with the mother at the breeder's home. As lifespan is the breed's main health concern, ask about the ages reached by dogs in the breeder's own lines. The Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Great Britain runs breed talks for newcomers and garden parties where you can meet adult dogs and their owners before you decide.

Health tests to ask about

Short life expectancy is the breed's main health problem. The Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Great Britain reports an average UK age at death of under eight years, with cancer behind around two-thirds of deaths. One cancer, histiocytic sarcoma, accounts for about a quarter of deaths, most often in middle age between five and seven. The club also highlights hip and elbow dysplasia, degenerative myelopathy (DM), which it links to older dogs losing the use of their back legs, and gastric torsion (bloat), an emergency that can be fatal within hours if untreated.

The RKC recommends hip and elbow scoring before breeding. It does not offer a breed-specific DNA testing package, though individual DNA tests are available. The breed club's Code of Ethics asks for all breeding stock to be hip and elbow x-rayed, for DM testing so that no mating can produce affected puppies, for testing through the Antagene (University of Rennes) histiocytic sarcoma scheme, and for a litter COI no higher than twice the breed average. The club's health work runs through its Bernese Health Initiative, launched in late 2020.

  • BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC recommended; dogs must be at least one year old)
  • BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme (RKC recommended; dogs must be at least one year old; the BVA advises breeding only from grade 0)
  • Degenerative myelopathy (DM) DNA test (breed club Code of Ethics)
  • Antagene histiocytic sarcoma test (breed club Code of Ethics)
  • Litter COI at or below the breed average (RKC general advice); no more than twice the average (breed club)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1 (no breed-specific points of concern listed)

More for Bernese Mountain Dog owners and breeders

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