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Border Collie puppies

Border Collie puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise Border Collie puppies for sale

Have a Border Collie 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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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.

Buying a Border Collie puppy

Looking for Border Collie puppies for sale? Litters on this page are advertised by breeders across the UK, and the details they give, including health testing, are their own declarations, so check them before you travel. Both parents should have a current eye examination under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme, and the RKC also recommends DNA tests for conditions such as CEA, TNS and glaucoma risk; confirm RKC results on the Health Test Results Finder or ask for ISDS certificates. Visit in person, meet the puppies with their mother and see where they are being raised. Never pay a deposit before you have viewed the litter. A Border Collie puppy needs daily training and a plan for its adult exercise, so think honestly about your time before you choose. You can also compare Border Collie stud dogs or read our guide to buying a puppy safely.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC lists a long set of health screening for the Border Collie. Under the RKC Health Standard, the Good Practice test, which the RKC strongly recommends as a minimum before breeding, is an eye examination, including gonioscopy, under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (run by the BVA). The Best Practice list adds eight DNA tests plus hip, elbow and hearing screening.

Two points are specific to this breed. The DNA test for severe goniodysgenesis and glaucoma risk, announced by the RKC in July 2018, looks for a candidate mutation that is strongly associated with the disease but not proven to cause it, so the RKC asks breeders to keep presenting their dogs for gonioscopy through the Eye Scheme. Separately, the RKC will not register puppies born on or after 1 January 2013 from a merle-to-merle mating, because of the risk of impaired sight and hearing linked to the merle gene. The Border Collie is in Breed Watch Category 1, meaning no breed-specific points of concern have been flagged for show judges.

  • Good Practice: eye testing, including gonioscopy, under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Collie Eye Anomaly/Choroidal Hypoplasia (CEA/CH), an inherited disorder of eye development
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (CL)
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Imerslund-Gräsbeck Syndrome (IGS), in which vitamin B12 is not absorbed from the gut
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Multi-drug Resistance (MDR1)
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Trapped Neutrophil Syndrome (TNS), which leaves affected puppies with a weakened immune system
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Sensory Neuropathy (SN), a progressive nerve disease
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Severe Goniodysgenesis and Glaucoma Risk (GGD)
  • Best Practice: DNA test for Raine's syndrome (dental hypomineralisation), which leaves teeth weaker than normal
  • Best Practice: BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme
  • Best Practice: BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme
  • Best Practice: KC BAER Scheme hearing test for deafness, including litter screening
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Border Collie owners and breeders

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