AvailablePeng Peng
White Japanese Spitz puppy
Female3 monthsHDB approved
$5,200
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Japanese Spitz Puppy for Sale Singapore
Japanese Spitz puppy for sale Singapore, the short answer: $4,888–$5,088 from Puppy Singapore, an AVS-licensed seller, vet-checked, vaccinated and microchipped under licence BR25052. The breed is HDB-approved at 5–10 kg and lives 12–16 years.
Two things below are not on any other page for this breed: what the five-hundred-dollar listings actually are, and which spitz breeds a flat will let you keep.
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Japanese Spitz puppy for sale Singapore: available now
Every Japanese Spitz for sale on this page carries its price on the card, before any enquiry, and what you see is what is on the farm right now. The Japanese Spitz puppy for sale Singapore price shown is the price you pay.
The Japanese Spitz puppies here are at the farm today, each with its own photo, age, colour and price.
- the Japanese Spitz puppies with us this week sits on one page.
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AvailableLemak
White Japanese Spitz puppy
Male5 monthsHDB approved
$4,088
Ask about LemakLemak (ID 2515), in fullRecently placed
These placed Japanese Spitz have already gone home. They are here so you can see what our litters look like, not as available stock.
What a Japanese Spitz looks like
Nine illustrations of the breed: the coat colours a Japanese Spitz comes in, the size it grows to, and the coat between grooming appointments. These are drawings of the breed, not photographs of puppies for sale. The 2 puppies we actually have are further up this page, each with its own photograph.
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The three facts that decide this breed for a Singapore buyer
Price: $4,888–$5,088
Published per breed before you enquire. A five-hundred-dollar figure elsewhere is a different transaction, and the section below explains which one.
Housing: HDB-approved
The Japanese Spitz HDB answer is a yes: HDB has Japanese Spitz on whether HDB approves a Japanese Spitz at 5–10 kg, one dog per flat, with a valid AVS dog licence.
It talks
This is an alert dog that announces arrivals. In a block with a shared corridor that is the fact to weigh hardest, and it is trainable rather than fixable.
How much does a Japanese Spitz puppy cost in Singapore?
A Japanese Spitz puppy costs $4,888–$5,088 from an AVS-licensed seller in Singapore. That price includes vaccinations to date, deworming, a vet health check, a microchip, health certification and ancestry records. Age, sex and litter move a puppy inside the band.
What a Japanese Spitz puppy price includes
Every Japanese Spitz puppy for sale Singapore buyers find on this site carries its price in public. Six things travel with the puppy, and each is a document or a procedure rather than a promise.
- Vaccinations to date, in the booklet that goes home with the puppy.
- Deworming, at every vet visit through the schedule.
- A vet health check before the puppy is cleared to travel.
- A microchip, implanted and registered.
- Health certification and ancestry records, signed and dated.
- Kennel club registration where the litter qualifies.
How much does a Japanese Spitz cost?
When people ask this without the word puppy in it, they usually mean what it costs to keep a Japanese Spitz rather than what it costs to buy one. Over 12–16 years the purchase price is the smaller half.
We will not publish a lifetime total, because it would be a guess dressed as a figure. What we can publish is what the recurring bill is made of.
Pricing, published
$4,888–$5,088
Published price for this breed (SGD).
- Vet health check & vaccinations to date
- Deworming (done with every vaccination visit)
- Health certification & ancestry records
- Microchipped before homecoming
- Door-to-door delivery available
Where a Japanese Spitz owner’s yearly cost actually goes
What a Japanese Spitz costs to keep, every month
| Line | Typical cost | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Food | The lower middle of the $30 to $120 a month band | A 5–10 kg dog, so a modest bill |
| Grooming | Real, but not extreme | Whether you brush at home between visits |
| Routine vet | Annual booster, plus eyes and knees checked | Age, and what the parents were checked for |
| AVS dog licence | $15 a year sterilised, $90 if not | Duration and sterilisation status, less a 10% online rebate |
A white double coat sounds expensive and mostly is not, because it repels dirt rather than holding it. Our price hub publishes what a Japanese Spitz costs here to buy and to keep, breed by breed.
What is a Japanese Spitz Singapore $500 listing?
Japanese Spitz Singapore 500 is a phrase Google's own related searches suggest twice, so a real share of the people reading this arrived holding that figure. It is almost always a rehoming or adoption fee for an adult dog, and not the price of a puppy.
A rehoming fee is the sum a rescue or an owner asks when placing a dog, set to cover its costs and to filter out impulse takers. It is deliberately not a market price, which is exactly why it reads like one.
What a five-hundred-dollar advert usually turns out to be
We are a seller, so take the next sentence with that in mind: adoption is a genuinely good outcome and we are not trying to talk you out of it. An adult whose temperament and coat you can already see carries less unknown than any puppy does.
- If the advert is a rescue or a rehoming: it is honest, and how adoption actually works here walks through it.
- If it is advertised as a puppy at that figure: ask for the AVS licence number, then search it.
- What the registry shows: whether a breeder or pet shop licence exists at all, and in whose name.
- What we are not saying: that any particular listing is dishonest. We are saying the check is free.
Verify anyone, including us, in the AVS public registry of licensed pet breeders. Our number is BR25052.
Which Spitz dog is best for an HDB flat?
For most buyers here this is not a matter of taste. We sell five spitz-family breeds and HDB approves exactly two of them for a flat, so the field narrows before preference gets a say.
The Pomeranian and the Japanese Spitz are on the approved list. The Shiba Inu, the Siberian Husky, the Chow Chow are not, at any price. Of the two that remain, the Japanese Spitz is the larger at 5–10 kg.
| Breed | HDB flat | Adult weight | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomeranian | Yes, approved | 1.5–3.5 kg | $4,888–$5,388 |
| Japanese Spitz | Yes, approved | 5–10 kg | $4,888–$5,088 |
| Shiba Inu | Not approved | 8–11 kg | $4,788–$6,500 |
| Siberian Husky | Not approved | 16–27 kg | $5,088–$6,088 |
| Chow Chow | Not approved | 20–32 kg | $6,888–$10,888 |
The cut runs straight through the middle of the family by size, which is why the two that survive it are also the two smallest. If you live in private housing the whole table is open to you and the question really does become preference.
Do Japanese Spitz bark a lot?
Yes. That is the honest answer and softening it would only move the disappointment to week three.
A Japanese Spitz living in a flat announces arrivals, because that is the job the breed was kept for alongside company. In a flat the triggers are constant: the lift landing, footsteps in a shared corridor, a delivery rider at the gate.
- What works: teaching that the doorbell means going to a mat, from the first week.
- What does not: shouting, which the dog reads as joining in.
- What to expect: less noise, not silence. The instinct stays.
- Who should think twice: anyone in a household or a block where noise is already a sore point.
The white coat in Singapore heat
A double coat is insulation in both directions. It slows heat coming in as much as it holds warmth in a cold climate, which is why the reflex to shave a white northern dog in the tropics is the one thing not to do.
Shaving removes the dog's own temperature control and exposes skin that has never seen sun. Brushing is the intervention, because the undercoat that comes out in a shedding week is the part trapping heat.
- Brush through the week, more when the undercoat blows, which happens heavily about twice a year.
- Bathe less than you expect. This coat sheds dirt as it dries, which is why the breed stays white on very little washing.
- Dry it properly. A damp undercoat in this humidity is the actual skin risk, not the heat.
- Walk in the cool hours, and check the pavement with your hand before the dog stands on it.
Tear staining on a white face
Tears run down the face and the residue oxidises into a rust-coloured track. Every breed does it and only the white ones show it, which is why this section exists here and on no other page of this site.
A daily wipe with a clean damp cloth, taking in the fold under the eye, keeps it to something you stop noticing.
- Normal: a faint track that comes and goes, worse in a dusty week.
- Ask a vet: if the eye itself looks sore, if the discharge changes character, or if staining appears suddenly on a dog that never had it.
- What we do not recommend: any whitening product, supplement or home remedy. This page describes the problem and stops there.
What are the disadvantages of the Japanese Spitz breed?
Written by a seller, so read the right-hand column with that in mind: it is the one that costs us sales when it is honest.
| Pros | Cons | |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | HDB-approved and flat-sized | One dog per flat still applies |
| Voice | A genuine alert dog that tells you someone is at the door | It barks, and training reduces it rather than removing it |
| Coat | Sheds dirt, so it stays white on little bathing | Sheds through the year and blows the undercoat twice |
| Face | One of the most striking small dogs anywhere | Tear staining shows on white in a way it never would on a dark coat |
| Temperament | Affectionate, biddable, good with a considerate child | A companion breed that does not enjoy an empty flat all day |
| Lifespan | 12–16 years | A long commitment for a first dog |
Which is better, Spitz or Pomeranian?
Price does not decide this one. Our published bands overlap almost exactly, at $4,888–$5,088 against $4,888–$5,388, so anyone telling you one is the premium dog is telling you about their stock rather than the breeds.
Size decides it. A Japanese Spitz is 5–10 kg and a Pomeranian is 1.5–3.5 kg, which is the difference between a small dog and a toy one. Grooming is the second difference, and it runs the other way.
| Japanese Spitz | Pomeranian | |
|---|---|---|
| HDB flat | Yes, approved | Yes, approved |
| Adult weight | 5–10 kg | 1.5–3.5 kg |
| Grooming | Medium | High |
| Coat | Double, white, never shaved | Double, many colours, never shaved |
| Typical range | $4,888–$5,088 | $4,888–$5,388 |
| Suits | A household that wants a small dog rather than a tiny one | A household that wants a lap dog and will do the coat work |
Meet both if you can. A Japanese Spitz right beside a Pomeranian settles the size question faster than any table does, and viewing here is by appointment.
If the toy end is what you are after, the smaller of the two spitz breeds a flat allows has its own page with the coat work set out in full.
Is Japanese Spitz a smart dog?
Quick to learn and unusually willing to please, which is not quite the same thing as clever. House training tends to go fast, and the dog reads a household well.
We publish no intelligence ranking for any breed, because the well-known ones measure how fast a dog obeys a stranger. That is obedience, and it is not what most owners mean.
Why are they called Spitz?
Spitz is German for pointed. It describes the shape rather than the origin: the tapering muzzle, the small upright ears and the tail carried curled over the back.
It is a family name, not a breed name, which is how it covers dogs as different as a 2 kg Pomeranian and a 30 kg Chow Chow. The Japanese Spitz is the one that carries the word in its name, and it is not the oldest member of the group.
How long do Japanese Spitz live?
Our own breed data gives 12–16 years, a long life even among small breeds.
We publish the range rather than an average. An average across a whole breed says very little about the dog in front of you, and it invites a precision nobody actually has.
Health: what to ask about before you pay
Knees
Patellar luxation is the small-breed joint risk. It is the first of the Japanese Spitz health questions worth asking. Find out what the parents were checked for, and keep a young dog off jumps down from furniture.
Eyes
Ask whether the parents' eyes were examined, and have your own vet look at the eyes at the first visit rather than only the staining around them.
Skin under the coat
Humidity plus a dense undercoat is the local risk. Drying properly after every bath does more than any product.
What we do not publish
Incidence percentages for any of the above. We hold no figures we can stand behind, and a made-up one is worse than none.
What a good seller answers without hesitating
- What is your AVS licence number, and may I look it up?
- What were the parents checked for, particularly the knees and the eyes?
- May I meet the puppy in person, and where is it now?
- May I see the vaccination booklet and the ancestry records?
- How much does this coat actually shed, in your experience?
Is a Japanese Spitz a good dog for a first-time owner?
It is one of the more forgiving breeds on this site. Two things catch first-timers, and both are on this page rather than hidden.
| Household | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Family flat, someone home for part of the day | Excellent | Affectionate, flat-sized, biddable and long-lived |
| First-time owner willing to brush and train | Good | Learns quickly, and the coat work is manageable at home |
| Home with a considerate school-age child | Good | Sturdier than a toy breed and tolerant with children who have been taught how to handle a dog |
| Household that needs quiet | Think hard | This is an alert dog, and that is the trait it was kept for |
| Flat empty twelve hours a day | Wrong breed | A companion dog left alone all day is a bored dog, and a bored spitz is a loud one |
Who a Japanese Spitz is not right for
- 1 Anyone who needs a silent dog. Buy a different breed rather than hoping to train this one out of its job.
- 2 Anyone who wants no shedding. White hair on dark furniture is part of the deal, twice a year emphatically.
- 3 A home that is empty all day. This breed was kept for company and it notices the absence.
- 4 Anyone planning to shave it for the heat. If that is the plan, the coat is the wrong coat for you.
What comes with every Japanese Spitz puppy
Vaccinations to date
Core doses at weeks 6 and 8 before homecoming, recorded in the booklet.
Deworming
Done at every vet visit through the schedule.
Vet health check
A licensed vet clears the puppy before it travels.
Microchip
Implanted and registered, and tied to your AVS dog licence.
Health certification
Written, signed and dated.
Ancestry records
Plus kennel club registration where the litter qualifies.
When your puppy comes home
The timeline is set by the vaccination schedule, not by us. Core vaccinations run at weeks 6, 8 and 12, with an optional dose at week 16, and deworming happens at every visit.
- Weeks 6 and 8: the first two core doses, at the farm.
- Around week 9: homecoming, a week after the second dose.
- Week 12, and optionally week 16: with you and your own vet.
- Year one onward: an annual booster.
The first month with a Japanese Spitz
- Decide the doorbell rule on day one. Barking habits set early in this breed, and week one is far easier than month six.
- Brush from the first week, before there is much to brush, so grooming is never a fight later.
- Start the daily eye wipe as a routine rather than a reaction to staining.
- Get the dog used to the dryer, because drying this coat properly matters more here than washing it often.
How to buy a Japanese Spitz ethically in Singapore
- 1Check the licence. Japanese Spitz Singapore breeders are licensed individually, so search the AVS public registry for the seller's number. Ours is BR25052, held by William Goh Pet Farm LLP.
- 2Ask about the knees and the parents. What the parents were checked for, and whether you can meet the mother.
- 3See the puppy in person. Viewing is by appointment. Watch how it reacts to a stranger arriving, which in this breed tells you something useful.
- 4Read the paperwork before you pay. Vaccination booklet, health certification and ancestry records.
Adoption, honestly
Japanese Spitz adoption Singapore is a real search, and dogs of this breed do come through local rehoming, almost always as adults. That is where most of the five-hundred-dollar figures on this page come from.
An adult whose coat, voice and temperament you can already assess is a lower-risk dog than any puppy, and the dog still needs a licence, a microchip and a vet. Treat the fee as a commitment rather than a saving.
About the breed
Developed in Japan in the early 20th century from white Spitz-type dogs, the Japanese Spitz was bred purely as a cheerful, devoted companion.
Japanese Spitz dogs were bred for nothing but company, and that is exactly what you get: attached to its household, interested in what everyone is doing, and vocal about anyone new. The alert bark and the affection are the same trait seen from two sides.
Japanese Spitz compared with the breeds buyers weigh against it
All four are HDB-approved and all four are white or commonly white, so the choice comes down to size, coat work and how much noise you can live with.
| Breed | HDB flat | Adult weight | Grooming | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese Spitz | Yes, approved | 5–10 kg | Medium, never shaved | $4,888–$5,088 |
| Pomeranian | Yes, approved | 1.5–3.5 kg | High, never shaved | $4,888–$5,388 |
| Bichon Frise | Yes, approved | 5–8 kg | High, cut regularly | $3,888–$5,988 |
| Maltese | Yes, approved | 2–4 kg | High, cut regularly | $4,288–$5,988 |
The Japanese Spitz is the only one of the four with a coat that is brushed rather than cut, which for some households is the deciding fact and for others is the drawback.
Where the figures on this page come from
- AVS licence BR25052 and how to verify it: the NParks public registry of AVS-licensed pet breeders, checked 26 August 2026.
- HDB-approved breeds and one dog per flat: HDB's own pet rules, confirmed in a browser on 25 August 2026 (the host blocks automated requests). The spitz-family table is built from that list and this site's own breed data.
- Puppy price ranges, adult weights and lifespans: this site's own breed data, reviewed 26 August 2026. Every figure in the spitz-family and comparison tables is read from it rather than typed, so the tables cannot drift out of step with the breed pages.
- The five-hundred-dollar explanation: the related searches returned by the live SERP pull for this page on 26 August 2026, read against what the AVS registry does and does not show. No named seller, listing or marketplace is characterised.
- Coat and shaving: Retriever Care, quoted above with a link to the source video. The channel is describing a Golden Retriever and the mechanism is common to double-coated breeds, which is why it is quoted rather than restated as ours.
- Knees, eyes and skin: the breed health notes maintained on this site. No incidence percentage appears for any of them, and the tear-staining section is descriptive rather than advisory.
- Dog licence fees: the AVS licence fee page, read 2026-08-26. The published table these figures come from was headed "before 1 September 2026" and that date has now passed. AVS has scheduled a new fee table from 1 September 2026. Re-checked on the AVS fee page on 26 August 2026: the replacement had still not been published, and the live page still showed only the "before 1 September 2026" table, last updated 31 October 2025. Treat the figures as the last published schedule and check the AVS page before relying on them.
Figures last checked 26 August 2026.
Japanese Spitz questions, answered
How much does a Japanese Spitz puppy cost in Singapore?
A Japanese Spitz puppy from an AVS-licensed seller in Singapore costs $4,888–$5,088. The price includes vaccinations to date, deworming at every visit, a vet health check, a microchip, health certification and ancestry records. Age, sex and litter move a puppy inside the band.
What is a Japanese Spitz Singapore $500 listing?
Almost always a rehoming or adoption fee for an adult dog rather than the price of a puppy. A rescue or an owner placing a dog sets that sum to cover its costs and to filter out impulse takers, and what you get for it is a grown dog whose temperament you can already see. The other thing that number attaches to is a listing with no licence behind it, which is why the AVS public registry is worth the minute it takes to search.
Do Japanese Spitz bark a lot?
Yes. This breed was kept as a companion and an alert dog, and it announces arrivals: the lift landing, the corridor, the delivery rider at the gate. It is trainable and most owners get it down to something reasonable, but a household that needs silence should not start here, and we will not pretend training removes the instinct.
What are the disadvantages of the Japanese Spitz breed?
The barking first, then the coat. It sheds through the year and blows the undercoat heavily twice, tear staining shows on a white face in a way it never would on a dark one, and this is a companion breed that does not enjoy an empty flat for twelve hours a day. None of those are faults. They are the deal.
Which is better, Spitz or Pomeranian?
Price does not decide it, because our published bands overlap almost exactly: $4,888–$5,088 against $4,888–$5,388. Size does. A Japanese Spitz is 5–10 kg and a Pomeranian is 1.5–3.5 kg, so one is a small dog and the other is a toy. Grooming is the second difference, and the Pomeranian carries the heavier load.
Which Spitz dog is best for an HDB flat?
Of the five spitz-family breeds we sell, HDB approves exactly two for a flat: the Japanese Spitz and the Pomeranian. The Shiba Inu, the Siberian Husky and the Chow Chow are not on the approved list. If you live in a flat the question answers itself before preference enters, and the Japanese Spitz is the larger of the two that remain at 5–10 kg.
Is Japanese Spitz a smart dog?
Quick to learn and unusually willing to please, which is a different thing from clever. It picks up house training fast, it reads a household well, and it responds to a routine rather than to repetition. We publish no intelligence ranking, because breed rankings measure how fast a dog obeys a stranger rather than how bright it is.
Why are they called Spitz?
Spitz is German for pointed, and it describes the shape: the tapering muzzle, the small upright ears and the tail curled over the back. It is a family name rather than a breed name, which is why it covers dogs as different as the Pomeranian and the Chow Chow.
Can you shave a Japanese Spitz in Singapore heat?
No. A double coat is insulation in both directions, so it slows heat coming in as much as it holds warmth in a cold climate, and shaving it removes the dog’s own temperature control and exposes skin that has never seen sun. Brush it out instead. The undercoat that comes away in a shedding week is the part that traps heat.
How long do Japanese Spitz live?
Our own breed data gives 12–16 years, which is a long life even among small breeds. We publish the range rather than an average, because an average across a breed says very little about the dog in front of you.
Why does my Japanese Spitz have brown tear stains?
Tears run down the face and the residue oxidises, which shows as a rust-coloured track on white fur and is invisible on a dark-coated dog. A daily wipe with a clean damp cloth keeps it down. It stops being cosmetic when the eye itself looks sore, when the discharge changes character, or when it appears suddenly on a dog that never had it, and that is a vet visit rather than a grooming problem.
What comes with a Japanese Spitz puppy?
Vaccinations to date with the booklet, deworming at every vet visit, a vet health check, a microchip, health certification and ancestry records, plus kennel club registration where the litter qualifies.