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By following the links above, you should be provided with an idea of
whether this breed it right for you, and focus your choice of puppy.
Not many Bloodhound Breeders in Britain have their own website,
and do not necessarily wish to advertise on the internet.
Top breeders in the UK, don't have frequent litters,
and in the main would not wish to deal with enquiries by email
or until they have bloodhounds born of a particular sex, colour
and type.
If you wish to receive information, on puppies in the
pipeline, you can register your interest by including your name,
‘snail-mail’ address, with telephone number for both
day and evening to puppies@BloodhoundBreeders.co.uk
Introduction
When you find bloodhound puppies being advertised, you should be
aware that not all bloodhounds in Britain are registered at the
Kennel Club.
Until 1997, the Masters of Bloodhounds Association had in its
Constitution, that puppies could only be drafted to members.
However, by the end of the twentieth century, this had broken down,
and up to half of the bloodhound puppies for sale in Britain were
not registered.
Bloodhounds whose parents are not registered at the Kennel Club,
can not enter Shows or Trials.
Hunts have their own system of shows, such as can be seen at the
'Peterborough', East of England County Show Ground, or their own
'Puppy Show' between seasons. However, ownership of pack
hounds is not extendable beyond the Masters or Hunt Committee.
There may be the opportunity to 'walk' puppies for a pack in your
area. Puppy-walkers must accept that the young hound must
return to the pack for the next season, where 'packing' is not
compatible with returning to different homes at the end of the
day (there are no 'trencher fed' bloodhound packs, but for
further information on Bloodhound Packs, try here).
Unregistered bloodhounds may still be claimed to be pedigree dogs
by their breeder/ owner, since the Masters of Bloodhound Association
could rely upon its members keeping records. Hence,
non-registered bloodhounds could still have in their pedigrees,
affixes such as Cranwell, Coakham, Farmers, Kyre. . . .
This parentage could have arisen quite outside the control of these
reputable bloodhound packs. However, these affixes would
preclude registration at the Kennel Club.
This is not to say that before 1997, member packs of the Masters of
Bloodhounds Association excluded Kennel Club registered-bloodhounds
from their packs. Recent exceptions are Jewells and Strinwinfor, but the
Kennel Club Stud book was closed to outcrosses after the inclusion
of the Dumfriesshire Foxhound outcross of the Raycroft affix.
The latter outcross is contained in all the bloodhounds in countries
where the breed is recognised. Very few specimens remain in
Britain, where the Dumfriesshire Outcross is excluded from the
pedigree, and it is likely that these will soon be extinct, since
no such litters have been whelped since 1998.