If you are seeking a puppy: please do not consider ANY puppies sold through newspaper ads or the Buy&Sell; most of these dogs are bred indiscriminately with no regard for healthy lines, and many are offered by brokers for "puppy farms", where breeding dogs are kept in horrendous conditions. Such puppies suffer from a very high incidence of early onset MVD (heart murmurs and heart failure) and other costly maladies. Few ethical breeders offer puppies through small ads. Contact the breed club (
www.ikc.ie, in the Buying a Dog section) to find out which registered cavalier breeders have or are expecting litters. *IKC registration alone is no guarantee of the quality of a puppy* so do careful research into the health and quality of the line and buyers should only consider breed club recommended breeders and expect to pay at least 500 euro for a puppy. Good breeders will invite you to their home to talk to you, let you meet the puppies, are proud that their dogs are raised in a home environment and will show you the puppies with their mother.