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Rough Collie puppies

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

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Advertise Rough Collie puppies for sale

Have a Rough Collie 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 Rough Collie puppy

This page gathers UK breeders on caninebreeder.co.uk with Rough Collie puppies for sale or litters on the way. The RKC registered roughly half as many Rough Collies in 2025 as in 2016, so litters may be harder to find and early contact helps. Listings carry the details each breeder has given us, so verify them: look up both parents on the RKC Health Test Results Finder and ask to see the litter's eye screening report. Ask about MDR1 status as well, because the Collie Association warns that some medicines, including over-the-counter products, can harm collies carrying the drug sensitivity mutation. Be ready for a large dog with a dense double coat that needs daily grooming, up to an hour's exercise a day and a lifespan of more than 12 years. Visit the litter and meet the mother. The Rough Collie Breed Council lists its member clubs, and our buyer safety guide explains common scams.

Health tests to ask about

The Royal Kennel Club lists eye screening under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme, including litter screening, and hip scoring under the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme as Good Practice, its recommended minimum before breeding, and adds four DNA tests as Best Practice. The breed is in Breed Watch Category 2; the points of concern for judges are deep-set eyes, incorrect dentition, an excessively narrow jaw, and incorrect hind conformation or poor rear movement. Since 1 January 2013 the RKC has not registered puppies from merle-to-merle matings, because the merle gene carries risks to sight and hearing.

The Collie Association names hip dysplasia, Collie eye anomaly (CEA), progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) and drug sensitivity as the four known inherited problems in UK Rough Collies. It describes CEA as present from birth and non-progressive, says its milder forms do not appear to affect sight, and advises having every puppy in a litter eye examined by a BVA panel ophthalmologist at six to seven weeks. It also explains that a gene mutation makes some collies react badly to ivermectin and a wider group of medicines, and urges owners to check active ingredients; the RKC's MDR1 (multidrug resistance gene 1) DNA test relates to this sensitivity. Results for registered dogs are on the RKC Health Test Results Finder.

  • BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme, including litter screening (RKC Good Practice)
  • BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Good Practice)
  • DNA test: Collie eye anomaly/choroidal hypoplasia (CEA/CH) (RKC Best Practice)
  • DNA test: Degenerative myelopathy (DM) (RKC Best Practice)
  • DNA test: Multi-drug resistance (MDR1) (RKC Best Practice)
  • DNA test: Progressive retinal atrophy (PRA-rcd2) (RKC Best Practice)
  • Breed Watch: Category 2
  • Breeding restriction: no RKC registration for puppies from merle-to-merle matings born on or after 1 January 2013
  • RKC At Watch list (native breed with 300 to 450 registrations a year)

More for Rough Collie owners and breeders

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