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How this works, and what it costs
Every number on this page is the number. There are no handling fees, no premiums for a particular colour or sex, and no upsells on go-home day.
Pet home · endorsed registration
The great majority of our puppies. Fully registered with the Royal Kennel Club and eligible for every RKC discipline; endorsed so their offspring cannot be registered.
Apply for a pet homeShow or performance · endorsements lifted
One or two puppies per litter, offered to approved homes by written agreement, usually to people we already know from the ring.
Talk to us about a show prospectWhat the price includes
- 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
On top of the purchase price, a realistic first year runs to £1,200–£2,000: crate and equipment, puppy classes, neutering if you choose it, insurance, food for a dog that will reach 27–45 kg, and grooming from about four months old.
The seven steps, start to finish
If a price seems too good A well-bred, fully health-tested Old English Sheepdog puppy from a Royal Kennel Club Assured Breeder generally runs £1,800–£3,000 in the UK. A £700 “KC registered OES” on a classifieds site is a warning, not a bargain.
You send an application
From the moment you press submit to the moment you are on our doorstep with a crate in the back of the car.
We read it and reply
Five short sections about your household, your experience, your vet, and what you are looking for. It saves as you go, so you can start it on your phone and finish it later. There are no wrong answers and no application fee — anyone charging you to apply is charging you for nothing.
We talk properly
Every application gets a real answer from a person, including the ones we turn down — and if we turn you down we will tell you why, because it is usually something fixable like timing. Silence is not our answer to anybody.
Deposit, and your place in line
A phone or video call. We will ask about your days, your garden, your other animals, and what your honest plan is for the coat. You should be interviewing us just as hard: ask what our dogs have died of, ask to speak to families who bought from us years ago, ask what happens if it goes wrong.
We match puppy to household
If we are both happy, we send you a written invoice with a unique payment reference. Your deposit comes straight off the puppy's price — it is not an extra. You get a dated receipt the moment it clears, and a place in a queue whose position we will always tell you honestly.
Weekly photographs and weights
We temperament test the whole litter, then pair each puppy to the home that suits it — energy, confidence, sensitivity, tolerance of chaos. We choose, and we explain our reasoning in full. In fifteen years this has gone wrong far less often than letting people pick by colour, and if you are unhappy with the match you are free to wait for the next litter with your deposit intact.
Go-home day
Your puppy, photographed properly, every week, with their weight and a note about what they have started doing. Visits are welcome once they are old enough. Most families say this month is the best part.
The deposit, in plain language
What it does
You collect in person. That is the law, not a preference — under Lucy's Law a puppy may only be sold by its breeder, where it was born, with its mother present. Expect to be here an hour or two: paperwork, a grooming lesson at the kitchen table, questions, and photographs. You go home with the puppy pack, the registration, the microchip transferred to your name, and our phone number for the next twelve years.
It is £400, it is credited against the price, and the balance of £2,200 is due Two weeks before go-home day. You will always have a written invoice and a receipt for both.
What we will never do
- Take a deposit before we have spoken to you properly.
- Take deposits from more families than there are puppies.
- Ask for payment by gift card, cryptocurrency, or a transfer to someone else's name.
- Pressure you to decide today because “someone else is interested”.
- Change our bank details part-way through. If you get a message saying we have, it is fraud.
Ready when you are
Applying is free, takes about ten minutes, and puts you under no obligation whatsoever.