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Golden Retriever puppies

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

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Advertise Golden Retriever puppies for sale

Have a Golden Retriever 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.

No breeders are listed here yet, so the first profiles get the page to themselves.

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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 Golden Retriever puppy

Searching for Golden Retriever puppies for sale? Goldens come in any shade of gold or cream, and the Golden Retriever Club expects a well-bred puppy that has been reared properly to cost £1,800 or more, with the purchase price only the first of many costs. Before you pay a deposit, ask for both parents' hip and elbow results, a current eye certificate with gonioscopy and at least a GR_PRA2 DNA result, then check them yourself on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. Visit in person, see the puppies with their mother, and look for clean surroundings and confident, curious puppies. A Golden grows into a large dog that sheds heavily and needs daily exercise and grooming, and weight is worth watching from the start, since being too fat is the breed's Breed Watch concern. Listings here come from breeders, so always make your own checks.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC places the Golden Retriever in Breed Watch Category 2. The one point of concern it asks show judges to look out for is dogs being too fat, so keeping a Golden lean matters for pet owners as much as for exhibitors.

On its breed page the RKC lists four good practice checks before breeding: hip screening, elbow screening, an eye examination under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme that includes gonioscopy for pectinate ligament abnormality (PLA), and a DNA test for the GR_PRA2 form of progressive retinal atrophy. As best practice it adds DNA tests for ichthyosis (ICT-A), a skin condition, and for GR_PRA1. The RKC's breed-specific DNA package covers ICT-A, GR_PRA1 and GR_PRA2 together with a DNA profile.

The Golden Retriever Club says eye certificates need renewing every year. Under the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme and BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme a dog must be at least a year old to be X-rayed. The BVA recommends breeding from dogs graded 0 for elbows, and from dogs whose hip scores sit under, or near, the breed median.

  • Hip dysplasia: BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC good practice)
  • Elbow dysplasia: BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme (RKC good practice)
  • Eye examination, including gonioscopy for PLA: BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC good practice)
  • DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy, GR_PRA2 (RKC good practice)
  • DNA test for ichthyosis, ICT-A (RKC best practice)
  • DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy, GR_PRA1 (RKC best practice)
  • Breed Watch: Category 2 (too fat)

More for Golden Retriever owners and breeders

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