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  To ensure you buy the healthiest puppy possible, and to ensure you are not funding unscrupulous and uncaring breeders, please read on. A responsible breeder will have carried out relevant breed health checks on parents before breeding.   You can check the puppy parents’ health testing results via the Kennel Club if they are Kennel Club registered and have had the recommended tests done.   You will need to ask the breeder for the parents’ Registered Name or Registration/Studbook Number and check online at the Kennel Club: Health Test Results Finder | The Kennel Club A note on buying cross-breeds Even when buying a cross-breed puppy, their parents should have been health-checked and if the parents are KC registered they can also put the results on the Health Test Results (as above).   This is however quite rare but failing that, the breeder should still show you the original veterinary certificates – see also advice from The Doodle Trust below and link to fur...