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Originally Posted by natalienicole  ok i guess ill get back into this again my thread anyways. the reason i started this thread was because i was searching on the net and found web site after website that was charging more for full registration and not just some more either 100s to 1000s and i did not think this was fair. and not only that but more for the females as well. I found this out when i was searching for my girl puppy and everytime i asked about a girl puppy i got the why a girl your not breeding are you lecture, and when i told them no they still didnt beleive me and then would turn arround and raise their price for the girls they had next time i talked to them. and not only that but if its true you are only trying to protect the line then why are girls always more? and ive seen many cases of this. |
It's because the girls can pump out the puppies frankly. You can make a lot more off of a girl than you ever could studding your boy. You can have a lot more harm done to a line by having your girl crank out puppies. This is true in most animal hobbies as well, the females always cost more. It's almost like insurance against making that girl into a puppy farm. I think that girls and boys on limited contracts though should be the same price, but I can see why a breeder would still be afraid of getting burned.
If it were me, boys and girls would be the same price. I wouldn't be able to say either one of my babies is worth more than another because of gender, and since I wouldn't sell to someone I didn't trust, the price "insurance" wouldn't matter anyway. You'll never make money from breeding if you're doing it right, it's just the way it works.