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Portuguese Water Dog puppies

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

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Advertise Portuguese Water Dog puppies for sale

Have a Portuguese Water Dog 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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Buying a Portuguese Water Dog puppy

Looking for Portuguese Water Dog puppies for sale? Start by asking each breeder for the parents' health results. The RKC recommends hip and elbow scoring and DNA tests for prcd-PRA, EOPRA and GM1, and the breed club asks for more, including JDCM. Breeders on caninebreeder.co.uk show their name, website, social media, location and categories, so you can compare kennels and contact them directly. Visit to see the puppies with their mother and ask about the parents' temperaments. Plan for the coat: the RKC lists the breed as non-shedding, but it needs daily care and regular trimming. This is an energetic dog that loves water, so think about exercise before you commit. We are an independent directory and do not inspect or endorse breeders, so please make your own checks.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC lists two Good Practice priorities for the Portuguese Water Dog: prioritising genetic diversity and a DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy (prcd-PRA). Its Best Practice list adds hip and elbow scoring and DNA tests for GM1 gangliosidosis, a storage disease that damages the nervous system, and early onset PRA (EOPRA). The RKC sells a breed-specific DNA package covering GM1 and prcd-PRA.

The Portuguese Water Dog Club of Great Britain asks for more for both parents: DNA tests for juvenile dilated cardiomyopathy (JDCM), microphthalmia syndrome (MOS-PWD), chondrodystrophy (CDDY) and chondrodysplasia (CDPA), and a clear eye examination before mating. Its test list, dated December 2023, quotes a five-year breed median hip score of 11 (as at December 2022) and a breed average CoI of 5.0% (July 2023); the RKC calculators show the current average. The club also names Addison's disease and paroxysmal dyskinesia as conditions found in the breed for which there is no DNA test.

Hip and elbow X-rays can be taken from one year of age. The breed is in Breed Watch Category 1 and is not on the BVA's January 2026 list of breeds with known inherited eye disease. Health testing lowers risk; it cannot guarantee a healthy puppy.

Health tests and schemes for the Portuguese Water Dog:

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC Good Practice)
  • DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy, prcd-PRA (RKC Good Practice)
  • BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Best Practice)
  • BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Best Practice)
  • DNA test for gangliosidosis, GM1 (RKC Best Practice)
  • DNA test for early onset progressive retinal atrophy, EOPRA (RKC Best Practice)
  • Breed club list: DNA tests for JDCM, MOS-PWD, CDDY and CDPA, plus a BVA/RKC/ISDS Eye Scheme examination (or equivalent) before mating
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Portuguese Water Dog owners and breeders

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