Health you can verify
Every parent is hip scored, eye tested and DNA screened. We publish the actual results, not just a reassuring badge.
See every testThe Baidulux promise
Big, beautiful dogs.Raised with heart.
Old English Sheepdog puppies raised in our home, from fully health-tested parents, with a lifetime of support from us.
Health tested
Home raised
Lifetime support
Royal Kennel Club Assured Breeder
Every puppy RKC registered
Hip scored & eye tested
Raised in our home
The Baidulux promise
A thoughtful beginning.A lifelong place to come home to.
We breed rarely and raise every puppy as one of the family. Our job does not end when you drive away—it lasts for the whole of your dog's life.
Raised in real life
Puppies grow up underfoot in our home, meeting household sounds, visitors and the gentle rhythm of family life.
How we raise themMatched, never picked
We get to know each temperament, then match puppy and family carefully—with honest guidance and no sales pressure.
Begin the conversationWho we are
A very small programme, run out of a house with too much dog hair in it.
We are not a kennel. There is no separate building, no run of concrete pens, no dogs kept somewhere you would not be allowed to see. Our four Old English Sheepdogs live in the rooms we live in, and puppies are whelped in the corner of the sitting room where somebody is almost always sitting.
We place somewhere between ten and eighteen puppies a year. That is a deliberate ceiling rather than a limitation — it is the number we can raise properly, screen homes for honestly, and stay in touch with for the next twelve years.
Every puppy we have ever bred has a standing invitation to come back to us, at any age, for any reason. That is not a marketing line. It is the reason we keep the numbers small.
Photo: the breeder with the dogs at home, candid and unposed — 1200×1600
Before anything else
Read this before you fall in love with the photographs.
Old English Sheepdogs are wonderful and they are genuinely hard work. Coat neglect is the single biggest reason this breed lands in rescue. We would rather lose you here than have a dog come back to us in three years.
2–4 hrs
Of brushing, every week
Line-brushed right down to the skin, not skimmed over the top. Split it across the week however you like, but it does not get skipped.
6–8 wks
Between professional grooms
Budget roughly £50–£85 a visit, for the life of the dog. A neglected coat mats to the skin and the only humane fix is to clip it all off.
27–45 kg
Of dog in your house
They are big, they lean on people, and they were bred to move livestock. A tired OES is a delight; an under-exercised one will redecorate.
10–12 yrs
Of commitment
Plus the coat blow at eight to twelve months, when the puppy coat gives way and everything mats at once. Everyone finds that year difficult. We will talk you through it.
Photo: BVA hip score and eye certificates on the kitchen table — 1200×900
Health testing
Hip scored, eye tested, DNA screened. Every parent, every time.
The Royal Kennel Club's Assured Breeder Scheme requires hip scoring for this breed and recommends annual eye testing and DNA screening on top. We treat the whole list as required and add elbow grading and BAER hearing besides.
Every score is published on this website — the actual numbers, not a badge. A hip score of 9 means something you can compare; “fully health tested” does not.
The process
How a puppy actually gets to you
1
Ten minutes, today
You apply
A short form about your household. No fee, no obligation, and no wrong answers — we are matching you, not grading you.
2
Usually within two days
We talk
A phone or video call, usually about forty minutes. You should be interviewing us just as hard. Ask about the coat, ask what our dogs have died of.
3
When you are approved
Deposit and waiting list
Temperament testing on the whole litter, then we pair each puppy to the household that suits it. We choose, and we explain exactly why.
4
Puppies at six weeks
We match
Photographs and a weight every week, plus whatever we can tell you about who they are turning into.
5
Every Sunday until you collect
You watch them grow
Balance paid two weeks beforehand. You collect in person, we do a grooming lesson at the kitchen table, and then you are on the phone to us for the next decade.
6
Ten weeks old
Go-home day
Straightforward pricing
Our families
£2,200 pet home
£2,800 for a show or performance prospect on full registration, by written agreement.
- Royal Kennel Club registration, endorsed against breeding for pet homes
- Microchipped and registered before you collect, as the law requires
- First vaccination, and worming from two weeks old
- Full veterinary examination with written health record
- Five weeks of free insurance, live from the day you collect
- Two-year written guarantee against life-limiting hereditary defects
- Puppy pack: current food, a scented blanket, grooming starter kit, and your puppy's papers
- Copies of both parents' hip scores, eye certificates and DNA results
- A first grooming lesson with us, in person or by video call
- Lifetime breeder support — and a standing offer to take your dog back at any age
Common questions
People who did this already
We had been on three waiting lists and this was the only breeder who asked us harder questions than we asked her. Two years on, Bramble is the easiest dog either of us has ever lived with.
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PLACEHOLDER — Family NameThe weekly photographs through those eight weeks were the best part of that whole year. We knew our puppy before we ever held him.
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PLACEHOLDER — Family NameI called at ten at night the first week, convinced something was wrong. She talked me down, stayed on the phone twenty minutes, and checked in the next morning. That is what you are actually buying.
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PLACEHOLDER — Family NameThere are more on the FAQ page, and if yours is not there we would genuinely rather you called.
The things everybody asks
Next step
How long is the wait for a puppy?
It takes about ten minutes, it costs nothing, and it commits you to nothing. It is simply how the conversation starts.
Do you deliver, or can someone collect on our behalf?
No, and this is the law rather than a preference. Under Lucy's Law a puppy under six months old may only be sold by the breeder who bred it, in the place it was born, with its mother present. You must come here and see the litter with Maggie or Tilly before you take a puppy home. Anyone offering to meet you at a service station or deliver a puppy to your door is breaking the law, and almost certainly not who they say they are.
Can we visit before we apply?
We ask you to apply first — it saves us both a drive if the fit is wrong. Once your application is approved you are welcome to visit, meet the mother, and see exactly where the puppies are raised. That visit is a two-way interview and we hope you use it that way.
Do you choose the puppy, or do we?
We match. At six weeks we assess temperament across the whole litter and pair each puppy to the household that suits it — activity level, other pets, children, whether you want to show. You tell us what your life looks like; we tell you which puppy fits it. In fifteen years this has gone wrong far less often than letting people pick by colour.
Next step
Start with an application
It takes about ten minutes, it costs nothing, and it commits you to nothing. It is simply how the conversation starts.