Advertise Bordoodle puppies for sale
Have a Bordoodle 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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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?
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Buying a Bordoodle puppy
Looking at Bordoodle puppies for sale? Start with the parents rather than the photographs. A puppy from a Border Collie and a Miniature Poodle may look and behave more like either one, so meet the mother, ask about the father and notice how relaxed each dog is with visitors. Ask for the Border Collie parent's eye and gonioscopy certificate, hip and elbow results, BAER result and DNA tests, and the Poodle parent's OC and prcd-PRA results. If the litter was BAER tested at around six weeks, ask for your puppy's own hearing result. Budget for grooming, since a curly coat may need regular clipping, and for a daily routine with plenty of exercise and training. Your puppy should be microchipped and registered on an approved database by eight weeks old. Steer clear of any litter bred from two merle parents.
Health tests to ask about
There is no health scheme for the Bordoodle itself, so look at the tests the RKC lists for each parent breed. The Border Collie list is long. Its Good Practice minimum is an eye examination with gonioscopy, which looks for signs linked to a painful, blinding form of glaucoma. Best Practice adds hip and elbow scoring, BAER hearing tests (including litter screening) and eight DNA tests. For the Miniature Poodle, the RKC lists DNA tests for osteochondrodysplasia, a severe form of dwarfism, and prcd-PRA, which causes gradual loss of sight, plus eye and hip screening.
The RKC describes MDR1, OC and prcd-PRA as recessive: a puppy is affected only if it inherits the faulty gene from both parents. In a first cross each parent should have at least its own breed's tests, and the RKC suggests considering the tests for both breeds. When two Bordoodles are mated, both carry genes from both breeds, so both should be tested for the combined list. The MDR1 result matters to owners as well, because affected dogs can react badly to certain medicines such as ivermectin and loperamide. The RKC will not register a litter from two merle Border Collies because of the risk to sight and hearing, so avoid merle-to-merle Bordoodle matings too.
- Border Collie, Good Practice: Eye testing (and gonioscopy for PLA) using the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme
- Border Collie, Best Practice: DNA tests for Collie eye anomaly/choroidal hypoplasia (CEA/CH), ceroid lipofuscinosis (CL), Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome (IGS), multi-drug resistance (MDR1), trapped neutrophil syndrome (TNS), sensory neuropathy (SN), severe goniodysgenesis and glaucoma risk (GGD) and Raine's syndrome
- Border Collie, Best Practice: Hip testing using the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme
- Border Collie, Best Practice: Elbow testing using the BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme
- Border Collie, Best Practice: Hearing testing using the KC BAER Scheme (including litter screening)
- Poodle (Miniature), Best Practice: DNA tests for osteochondrodysplasia (OC) and progressive retinal atrophy (prcd-PRA)
- Poodle (Miniature), Best Practice: Eye testing using the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme and hip testing using the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme
- Breed Watch: Border Collie Category 1; Poodle (Miniature) Category 1
- The Bordoodle has no Breed Watch category because it is not a recognised breed
More for Bordoodle owners and breeders
Official sources
- Border Collie - Royal Kennel Club breed information
- Poodle (Miniature) - Royal Kennel Club breed information
- Border Collie breed standard - Royal Kennel Club
- Poodle (Miniature) breed standard - Royal Kennel Club
- Breed Watch Category 1 - Royal Kennel Club
- BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Screening Scheme - Royal Kennel Club
- BVA/KC/ISDS PLA (gonioscopy) eye testing - Royal Kennel Club
- BAER hearing testing - Royal Kennel Club
- BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Screening Scheme - Royal Kennel Club
- BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Screening Scheme - Royal Kennel Club
- DNA test: MDR1 (multiple drug sensitivity) - Royal Kennel Club
- DNA test: osteochondrodysplasia (OC) - Royal Kennel Club
- DNA test: prcd-PRA - Royal Kennel Club
- Eye Scheme - British Veterinary Association
- Hip Scheme - British Veterinary Association
- Elbow Scheme - British Veterinary Association
- What is a crossbreed dog? - Royal Kennel Club
- How to breed a crossbred dog - Royal Kennel Club
- What is merle? - Royal Kennel Club
- Health Test Results Finder - Royal Kennel Club
- Inbreeding coefficient calculators - Royal Kennel Club
- Inbreeding coefficient calculator - Royal Kennel Club
- Dog breeding licence (England) - GOV.UK
- Get your dog or cat microchipped - GOV.UK
