Breeding services

Breeding Done Properly, or Not at All

A decade of healthy litters sits behind our name. We offer stud services, whelping support and mentorship — only to breeders who share our health-first standards.

Healthy young puppies from a Thistledown litter

What we offer

Services for Serious Breeders

Health-tested studs

Proven, fully health-tested stud dogs with pedigree, temperament records and offspring you can meet.

Pairing advice

Pedigree analysis and honest guidance on compatibility, timing and what a pairing should improve.

Whelping support

On-call help through pregnancy and birth, plus hands-on assistance for first-time mums when needed.

Breeder mentorship

A full season of guidance for new ethical breeders — from facilities to records to homing contracts.

Our standards

Non-Negotiables We Breed By

Every pairing we are involved in must improve the breed: health scores in hand, temperaments proven in real homes, and no bitch bred before maturity or more often than her wellbeing allows.

We keep numbers small on purpose. One or two litters a year means every puppy is known by name, every buyer is interviewed, and every dog can come home to us at any point in life.

If that sounds slow, it is. Good dogs cannot be rushed.

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Questions

Breeding FAQs

Breed-appropriate hip, elbow and eye scores plus DNA panels for known conditions — for both sire and dam, with certificates shared before any mating.

Yes, to health-tested bitches from breeders who meet our welfare standards. We meet every bitch first and reserve the right to decline.

Happily. Our whelping support covers the final weeks of pregnancy, the birth itself and the critical first fortnight — by phone or in person.

Rarely and deliberately — one or two litters a year across the whole kennel. Waiting lists are honest about timing and never pressured.

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