hi, i wonder if anyone can help. i have kept newfs for years and am now very interested in breeding them as i have just moved to a much larger property with plenty of land. i have already bought a bitch who is adorable but i am looking to purchase a male i did have one booked but there was a problem with the pup. can any one help? i live in cornwall but am prpered to travel for the right dog. please reply to sohaha@aol.com thanks

The search to find a suitable, complementary mate for a bitch is hard enough without trying to find such a dog that is also for sale.  A puppy will not be of much use as although you may compare the pedigree until fully devoloped you will not know any weaknesses he may possess in his conformation, he may even grow up to have glaring faults like not all there in the family jewels section :).  Keeping entire animals of opposite sex is also very problematic, so all in all the very much more common practice of seeking out the very best stud dog to be found for the mating itself remains the best way of going about this.
I presume your adorable bitch has a good hip score and has either proved her worth in the show ring or has been judged a good enough specimen to breed by someone experienced in these areas such as her breeder and does not have any endorsements on her registration documents forbidding the registration of her offspring.

I would endorse what Isabel has said.  For the price of a puppy or thereabouts you can have the use of the best stud dogs in the country (assuming your bitch poasses muster), without having to rear him for 3 years, ahve him health tested only to use him once, and then probably find him very frustrated on subsequent seasons, as unless he is a top winning fog, or of unusual bloodlines he is very unlikley to be in demand by other breeders to use on theri bitches.

You are likely to want to keep a puppy so you woudl son have one more dog than needed to facilitate your breeding program.

Many very successful breeders never own male dogs, and others wait a long time before they feel that they need to bring in somthing not available to them, and often import one for their own and others use as an investment in the breeds future.