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Sussex Spaniel puppies

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

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Advertise Sussex Spaniel puppies for sale

Have a Sussex Spaniel 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 Sussex Spaniel puppy

Sussex Spaniel puppies are scarce in the UK. The Sussex Spaniel Association puts the number born each year at around 30 and says a wait of two years or more is common. Plan well ahead: contact breeders early, go to club shows or events to meet the dogs and their owners, and ask to join waiting lists. Listings on this page are placed by breeders themselves, so ask each one for the parents' BVA/KC hip scores, BVA/KC/ISDS eye certificates, the litter's coefficient of inbreeding and its RKC registration details. Golden liver is the only colour in the breed standard. All dogs in the UK must be microchipped and registered by eight weeks old, so a puppy ready to leave should already be chipped.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC's pre-breeding advice for the Sussex Spaniel puts genetic diversity first. Every Sussex traces back to a small post-war group, so avoiding closely related matings is the breed's Good Practice recommendation. The SSA reports that fewer puppies are being born and litters are getting smaller, and its Sussex Genetics Project, run with the Roslin Institute and the RKC, is DNA testing UK-resident dogs to build an evidence-based plan for managing the gene pool.

As Best Practice, the RKC recommends an eye examination and hip scoring under the schemes listed below. The SSA strongly recommends hip scoring all breeding stock and gives the breed's average hip score as 41; the RKC and BVA advise breeding from dogs scoring around or below the breed median, so compare a parent's score with the Sussex figure rather than with other breeds. The club also flags ear problems, skin allergies and, in a small number of dogs, bloat.

The RKC places the breed in Breed Watch Category 1 (no breed-specific points of concern for show judges) and applies no extra breed-specific breeding restrictions.

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC Good Practice): check the litter's coefficient of inbreeding against the breed average
  • Eye testing using the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC Best Practice)
  • Hip testing (for hip dysplasia) using the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Best Practice); dogs must be at least 12 months old
  • Breed Watch: Category 1
  • The RKC does not currently offer a breed-specific DNA testing package for the Sussex Spaniel

More for Sussex Spaniel owners and breeders

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