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Havanese puppies

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

Advertise Havanese puppies for sale

Have a Havanese 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.

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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 Havanese puppy

Browse UK breeders on caninebreeder.co.uk with Havanese puppies for sale or litters on the way. The Havanese Club of Great Britain says the breed is still relatively uncommon here, so waiting lists are normal. Every listing shows what the breeder has told us, so confirm the details for yourself. Ask to see eye certificates for both parents from a BVA panellist, dated within the 12 months before the mating, and any litter eye screening result. Then look the parents up on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. The club's code says no puppy should be sold under eight weeks of age. A Havanese needs daily grooming and does not cope well with long hours alone, so be realistic about your routine before you commit. Our buyer safety guide explains how to spot scams and fake adverts.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC Havanese breed page lists eye testing as good practice, the minimum it strongly recommends before breeding, and adds elbow grading as best practice. It also points to a breed club health scheme and says it offers no breed-specific DNA test package for the Havanese. The breed is in Breed Watch Category 1, meaning no breed-specific points of concern have been flagged for show judges.

The Havanese Club of Great Britain's health testing advice treats two checks as essential for breeding dogs. The first is a yearly eye test by a BVA eye panellist, starting after 12 months of age and before the first mating. The second is a single kneecap (patella) examination by an experienced vet after 12 months, graded on the Putnam system. Heart testing, hip and elbow screening and several DNA tests are listed as optional extras that add to what is known about the breed. The club's eye testing page names cataract as the main hereditary eye disease and says most cases develop after six months of age. No DNA test exists for any eye disease in the breed, so examination by a panellist is the only check.

  • Eye testing using the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC good practice; the club asks for a yearly test)
  • Elbow testing using the BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme (RKC best practice; club optional, not before one year)
  • Patella (kneecap) examination graded on the Putnam scale, once after 12 months (club essential)
  • Litter eye screening by a BVA eye panellist, which the club says is usually done at 6 to 8 weeks
  • Heart testing, not before two years of age (club optional)
  • Hip screening using the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme, not before one year (club optional)
  • DNA tests such as hereditary calcium oxalate urolithiasis (HCOU) type 1, von Willebrand's disease, haemophilia A, methaemoglobinaemia, macrothrombocytosis and CDDY (club optional)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

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