Teddy Bear Puppies for Sale in Missouri
Our Teddy Bear Puppies can be hand-delivered right to your door In Missouri.
Teddy Bear Puppies for Sale in Missouri
If you have been looking at Teddy Bear puppies for sale in Missouri, ours come from The Puppy Lodge, a family run program based on a five acre farm in Fresno, Ohio. Teddy Bears are a Shih Tzu and Bichon Frise cross, usually 8 to 15 pounds full grown, with a wavy plush coat and a calm, people focused personality. They were bred to be companions and nothing else, which shows in how easily they settle into a house.
Missouri sits west of us, and the drive ranges from about seven hours to the St. Louis side of the state up to thirteen hours out toward Kansas City and the western counties. That spread matters when you pick how your puppy gets home, and we walk through every option with you on the phone once a puppy is reserved.
Available Teddy Bear Puppies for Missouri Families
Below are the Teddy Bear puppies we currently have available. Each one has been vet checked by Danville Veterinary Clinic, microchipped, and kept current on vaccinations and dewormings, and each comes with a written three year health guarantee covering genetic and congenital conditions. Prices start at $1,995 and shift with color, coat type, and gender.
You can reserve a puppy directly on the site with a $200 deposit, and financing through Credova is available if you would rather spread the cost out. We do not keep a waitlist, so puppies go first come first served and a listing can be claimed the same day it goes up. Delivery to Missouri is arranged separately once your puppy is reserved.
Teddy Bear Puppies We've Placed With Missouri Families
Niclas
in Belton, MO
Nadine
in O"fallon, MO
Teddy Bear Puppy Delivery to Missouri
Three ways to get your puppy from Ohio to Missouri.
Ground Delivery. A professional transport service drives your puppy door to door in a climate controlled van, with an individual carrier, a veterinary checkup before departure, and updates along the way. For Missouri the fee is currently $450, flat statewide. Ground runs leave on Tuesday mornings and most Missouri families have their puppy in hand within a couple of days of scheduling, since the route across Indiana and Illinois is a straight shot. This is the option most Missouri buyers choose, and for the majority of the state it is what we would suggest.
Flight Nanny. A trained handler carries your puppy in the cabin of a commercial flight, never in cargo, and hands the puppy to you at baggage claim. Most flight nanny deliveries finish the same day. It costs more than ground and is quoted per flight, since pricing depends on the route and the ticket. Common arrival points for Missouri families are St. Louis Lambert International, Kansas City International, and Springfield-Branson National. If you are out toward Kansas City, St. Joseph, or the southwest corner of the state, this is worth pricing out, because it turns a long drive into a short afternoon. Your puppy needs to be at least eight weeks old, under 20 pounds with the carrier, and cleared by a licensed vet with a health certificate, all of which a Teddy Bear meets easily at that size.
Pickup at the Farm. You are welcome to come to the Ohio kennel by appointment and take your puppy home yourself. From St. Louis or Hannibal that is a long but doable day, roughly seven to eight hours each way. You get to meet the mother, walk through the vaccination records and microchip registration in person, and leave with a bag of the food your puppy has been eating plus a blanket carrying the mother's scent.
One note that is specific to this breed. Teddy Bears have a slightly shortened muzzle from the Shih Tzu side, so heat is something to be careful with. Missouri summers get hot and humid across the whole state, so we schedule warm weather transports to avoid the worst of the afternoon, and if you are picking up yourself, keep the car cool and skip long stops outdoors.
A Teddy Bear Puppy Breeder Serving Missouri Families
The Puppy Lodge is owned by the Nisley family, and we have been raising dogs for over thirteen years. Every parent dog is owned by us and individually genetically tested and screened before any pairing, on both the Shih Tzu and Bichon side. Litters are raised across a closed network of local kennels near the farm by breeders who work only with our dogs and follow our health testing and breeding standards, and no puppy comes from anywhere outside that network. Our vet visits weekly on a set schedule to check the adult dogs and the new litters.
Every Teddy Bear puppy goes through the ENS protocol from day three through day sixteen, gets handled and played with daily by our children, and starts potty and crate training before go home at eight weeks. That early work matters with this breed in particular. Teddy Bears bond hard and can develop separation anxiety if alone time is not built up on purpose, so the head start on stress tolerance and crate time gives you something to build on. We also pay attention to structure in our pairings, since patellar luxation and dental crowding show up in a lot of small breeds, and we watch coat and eye traits through testing as well.
Missouri has plenty of local breeders, and being ten hours away means you cannot drop by on a whim. What you get instead is a program where the parents are all owned and tested by one operation, where the health guarantee runs three years in writing, and where you can see the puppy on a FaceTime call before you commit a dollar. If you want the background on the breed before you decide, our complete guide to Teddy Bear puppies covers what life with one actually looks like.