tambo I would never ever BUY a dog, and it would be a puppy, unless I knew its breeding, had met the breeders and at least the dam of the dog and knew who the sire was and knew that the parents had had all the relevant health checks and passed them. Dogs brought in from the EU must pass health checks and be vaccinated against rabies, the earliest the vaccine can be given is 12 weeks, then the dog must wait for 21 days before travelling. Its one thing to adopt or rescue a dog from abroad, if that is what is best for the dog, which it may not be, and another to buy what would very possibly be a farmed badly bred animal from a setup where the animals are bred for profit and probably badly mistreated.