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Cavalier King Charles Spaniel stud dogs

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel stud dogs offered by UK breeders, with health test results and registration details.

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Advertise your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel stud dog

Offer your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel at stud to owners of health-tested bitches. Show his registration, health test results and achievements, and link the listing 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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Using a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel stud dog

Before using a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel stud dog, ask for his certificate under the RKC heart scheme and note his age at testing: the RKC says higher murmur or valve grades in a young dog are more of a concern than the same grades in an older one. Ask too for his DNA results for curly coat/dry eye and episodic falling, his eye certificate and, if he has been scanned, his CM/SM grades.

If you plan to register the litter, the stud must be RKC registered and free of any breeding endorsement, and a litter from two Blenheim parents is only accepted if the puppies are Blenheim. Run the pairing through the RKC's free inbreeding coefficient calculator, and avoid over-using one popular sire. Put the fee, any pick-of-litter terms and what happens if no puppies arrive in a written agreement. Our stud dogs and stud services page explains more.

Health tests for a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel stud

The RKC highlights three inherited health concerns in the Cavalier. Mitral valve disease (MVD) is a degeneration of one of the heart valves, often first picked up as a murmur; the RKC notes that it starts earlier in the Cavalier, although many affected dogs still live to a good age. Syringomyelia (SM) causes fluid-filled cavities in the spinal cord. Some dogs show no signs or only mild ones, such as scratching at the air near the neck when excited or on a lead, while in others it progresses and causes pain and neurological problems. It is diagnosed by MRI scan. Congenital or juvenile cataract and multifocal retinal dysplasia are now much less common because reputable breeders test before breeding.

Under the RKC heart scheme for Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, an approved cardiologist listens for a murmur and then checks the valve by echocardiography. Dogs must be at least 18 months old, the RKC strongly recommends assessments at two, four and six years, and a green, amber or red rating guides breeding decisions. The BVA/KC Chiari malformation and syringomyelia scheme grades MRI scans, and a joint BVA and RKC syringomyelia project is gathering scans with the aim of developing estimated breeding values. Results for registered dogs appear on the Health Test Results Finder.

  • RKC Good Practice: DNA test for curly coat/dry eye (CC/DE)
  • RKC Good Practice: DNA test for episodic falling (EF)
  • RKC Good Practice: heart screening for mitral valve disease under the RKC heart scheme for Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
  • RKC Best Practice: eye testing under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme
  • BVA/KC CM/SM Screening Scheme (MRI): not on the RKC's Good or Best Practice list for the breed, but run jointly by the BVA and RKC and encouraged for breeding dogs by the Cavalier Club
  • Breed Watch: Category 2, with visible eye irritation or discomfort, protruding eyes and incorrect hind construction or poor rear movement flagged for judges

More for Cavalier King Charles Spaniel owners and breeders

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