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St. Bernard puppies

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

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Advertise St. Bernard puppies for sale

Have a St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard puppy

St. Bernard puppies for sale should come from parents that have been hip scored and elbow graded under the BVA/KC schemes and examined under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme. Ask the breeder for the certificates and check them against the RKC Health Test Results Finder. Find out whether the litter is rough or smooth coated, as the breed has both, and see the puppies with their mother where they were reared. A puppy of this breed soon becomes heavy, so think ahead about lifting it into a car, managing stairs and getting to the vet. Before collection, the puppy should be microchipped and registered on a database, and you should receive feeding notes and any RKC registration paperwork. Expect a caring breeder to ask about your home as closely as you ask about theirs.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC places the St. Bernard in Breed Watch Category 3, for breeds whose exaggerated conformation causes visible health concerns needing extra support. Show judges are asked to look out for eyelids that turn inwards or outwards instead of sitting against the eye, bites and teeth that depart from the standard, unsound movement, and faulty hindquarter construction or poor rear movement. In Category 3 breeds, a Best of Breed winner at a general or group championship show must pass a veterinary check before competing in the group, and a check is also needed to confirm a Champion title. The breed standard itself asks for reasonably tight eyelids and treats excessive haw as unacceptable.

Hip, elbow and eye screening are the RKC's Good Practice tests for the breed, the minimum it strongly recommends before breeding. Dogs must be at least a year old for BVA hip and elbow X-rays, and the BVA advises choosing breeding dogs whose hip scores are under or near the breed median and whose elbow grade is 0. The RKC does not currently offer a breed-specific DNA test package. The standard asks for a wide, deep chest, and the RKC notes that bloat (gastric dilatation-volvulus) mainly occurs in deep-chested breeds; a swollen belly, drooling and retching without producing anything need a vet at once.

Tests and schemes the RKC lists for the St. Bernard (Good Practice):

  • Hip testing under the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme
  • Elbow testing under the BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme
  • Eye testing under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme
  • Breed Watch: Category 3

More for St. Bernard owners and breeders

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