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Deerhound puppies

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

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Advertise Deerhound puppies for sale

Have a Deerhound 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 Deerhound puppy

This page lists UK breeders on caninebreeder.co.uk with Deerhound puppies for sale or litters planned. RKC figures show between 128 and 146 Deerhound registrations a year from 2023 to 2025, so litters are few and you may have to wait; contact breeders early and be flexible about timing. Listings show what each breeder has told us, so check the details yourself. Ask for the puppy's bile acid result, when the parents were last heart scanned and their DNA results, and look both parents up on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. The Deerhound Club also keeps a register of members' litters that meet its conditions, and says puppies usually leave at about 12 weeks and not before 10. A grown Deerhound is a large sighthound that needs more than two hours of exercise a day and room to gallop. Our buyer safety guide explains how to avoid scams.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC Deerhound breed page lists a single good-practice item before breeding: prioritising genetic diversity, which matters in a vulnerable native breed with a relatively small gene pool. It lists no screening schemes or DNA tests of its own, offers no breed-specific DNA test package, and refers breeders to the breed club's health scheme. The breed is in Breed Watch Category 1, meaning no breed-specific points of concern have been flagged for judges.

The Deerhound Club's Health Matters pages set out that scheme. The club recommends a single post-feeding bile acid blood test to screen litters for congenital portosystemic shunt before sale and arranges low-cost testing; of 995 puppies tested from 2014 to 2022, 24 (about 2.4%) had raised results. It runs a heart study into dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) with subsidised echocardiograms for members, keeps a mortality survey, and collects data on delayed post-operative haemorrhage (DEPOH), for which a DNA test is available from a US laboratory. It also points breeders to DNA tests for Factor VII deficiency, a clotting disorder, and for a form of hairlessness caused by an SGK3 variant, and stresses that Factor VII testing is for informed mating choices rather than for excluding hounds from breeding. Its ownership guide urges owners to learn the signs of bloat.

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC good practice), using the RKC inbreeding coefficient calculators
  • Breed club health scheme (referred to by the RKC): bile acid screening of puppies for liver shunt before sale
  • Breed club heart screening (echocardiogram) for DCM
  • DNA test for Factor VII deficiency (breed club; not an RKC-listed test)
  • DNA test for hairlessness, SGK3 variant (breed club; not an RKC-listed test)
  • DNA test for the DEPOH mutation (breed club data project; US laboratory)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Deerhound owners and breeders

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