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Border Terrier puppies

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

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Advertise Border Terrier puppies for sale

Have a Border Terrier 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 Terrier puppy

Find Border Terrier puppies for sale from breeders around the UK. Litters are advertised by breeders, and the details they give, including health testing, are their own declarations, so check them before you travel. Both parents should have been DNA tested for SLEM, the breed's Good Practice test; ask for the results or look them up on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. When you visit, meet the puppies with their mother, see how they are being raised and ask what they have already met in the way of people, household noise and other animals. A Border Terrier puppy is small but tough, and will soon need secure fencing, daily walks and patient recall training. Never pay a deposit before you have seen the litter in person. You can also browse Border Terrier stud dogs or read our guide to buying a puppy safely.

Health tests to ask about

Under the RKC Health Standard, the breed's Good Practice test is a DNA test for spongiform leucoencephalomyelopathy (SLEM), known in the breed as shaking puppy syndrome. Affected puppies show severe tremors, mostly in the hind legs, once they start trying to walk. The RKC approved an official DNA testing scheme for SLEM in November 2017, and results are recorded on registration certificates and on the Health Test Results Finder. In 2025 the test was moved up from Best Practice to Good Practice. The breed health group explains that clear and carrier dogs do not develop SLEM, and that a mating in which one parent is clear cannot produce affected puppies, whereas two carriers can.

At the same time, the RKC removed hip scoring from the Health Standard for this breed because of doubts about the clinical value of hip scores in small breeds; breeders may still choose to hip score. The breed health group formed by the seven UK Border Terrier clubs runs Border Terrier Health, which covers canine epileptoid cramping syndrome (CECS), gallbladder mucocoele, Cushing's disease and Perthes disease, collects an ongoing owner health survey and publishes an annual health report. The Border Terrier is in Breed Watch Category 1, meaning no breed-specific points of concern have been flagged for show judges.

  • Good Practice: DNA test for spongiform leucoencephalomyelopathy (SLEM)
  • Best Practice: no further tests listed by the RKC at the time of writing
  • Breed health group guidance: a clear or carrier dog mated to a clear dog will not produce SLEM-affected puppies; a carrier-to-carrier mating can
  • Monitored by the breed health group (no RKC test listed): CECS, gallbladder mucocoele, Cushing's disease, Perthes disease
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Border Terrier owners and breeders

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