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Keeshond stud dogs

Keeshond stud dogs offered by UK breeders, with health test results and registration details.

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Advertise your Keeshond stud dog

Offer your Keeshond 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 Keeshond stud dog

Keeshond stud dogs

Stud dog owners can list Keeshond males here so that bitch owners can compare them. The RKC does not keep a stud register of its own and points owners towards breed clubs for advice. A helpful listing gives the dog's RKC registration details, his BVA/RKC hip score and elbow grade, his BVA/KC/ISDS eye certificate and his PHPT DNA result, since, alongside prioritising genetic diversity, these make up the RKC's Good and Best Practice list for the breed. Before agreeing a mating, check the pair with the RKC's inbreeding coefficient calculators and aim for a litter coefficient at or below the breed average. The RKC's guidance on using your dog as stud calls for a signed written contract and suggests checking that the bitch has the right health results and is registered without endorsements. Browse Keeshond puppies or all stud dogs.

Health tests for a Keeshond stud

Keeshond health and testing

The RKC health standard sorts pre-breeding tests into two tiers. Good Practice is the minimum the RKC strongly recommends before breeding; Best Practice adds tests for conditions that still matter but may be less common or more recently identified. For the Keeshond, Good Practice covers genetic diversity, hips and elbows, and Best Practice adds eye examinations and a DNA test for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT).

PHPT happens when too much parathyroid hormone is released, pushing blood calcium above normal. The RKC describes it as autosomal dominant, so a single copy of the variant is enough to affect a dog, and signs usually appear later in life, at around 10 to 11 years. Since April 2025 the RKC has run an official DNA testing scheme for PHPT in the breed, recording results as clear, single affected or double affected. In 2023 the RKC described the condition as rare in the UK Keeshond population. Keeshond Health Matters, a health site shared by the two UK breed clubs, also highlights epilepsy and skin and coat problems.

The breed is in Breed Watch Category 2, with an excessively profuse coat listed as the point of concern for show judges. The RKC has no additional breed-specific breeding restrictions for the Keeshond.

More for Keeshond owners and breeders

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