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Originally Posted by feminvstr KIM this is the same as yesterdays, you defended your friend for charging $4000 for her female and $950 for the male out of the same litter. You were stead fast defending her breeding practices, what a loving caring giving breeder she is...but oops gotta charge ya more Mr/Mrs consumer because she is my little diamond in the rough and my mortgage. Let me tell you that breeder isnt feeling gulity why would you!
I am a breeder Kim make sense of this IT COST ME NOTHING MORE to raise the girl or the boy! |
That is not true , the boy is larger and is a male and does not have the current desired look so he commands a smaller price. It will cost more to raise the tiny female because she will have to keep her longer and she required 24/7 care for longer right after she was born due to her size. Tanya is a very small breeder with very few litters a year and I think because she spends the quality time with those litters and her adult dogs (who all sleep with her btw) she is entitled to get the going price when she has a special tiny like this little girl. I wouldn't be surprised if she has people competing over that puppy and she has her choice of the most appropriate adoptive parents at even more than her asking price! That quality puppy is hard to come by and some people have to wait a long time before they get one.
This just shows that Tanya knows the "value" of the different looks and the puppies and she is being fair. She is not setting some "standard price" like I have seen breeders do before a litter is even born where the females are $1200 for instance males are $1000 or something else just as arbitrary.
As a breeder, you know very well that you get all different looks in the same litter, some with big ears, some with small eyes, some with roach backs or long snouts, whatever. Those puppies are just as loveable and someone will be thrilled with them but hey are not as valuable as the "complete package" or size, big eyes, smalll well set ears, level topline, compact body, silky coat, etc.
And as far as yesterday goes, you complained about Tanya's price on that thread and said it was gouging and ridiculous and then you started a new thread recommending a breeder (who is not a member and who I am not sure how well you know her) who charges a lot more than that, upwards of $7500 for her puppies. That didn't make sense to me. You cited the very same characterisitics that Tanya has (puppies bred carefully with known pedigrees to insure smallness w/o genetic defects, keeping the puppies longer, a great puppy care package, etc.)
I am not recommending this breeder but go to
www.starlightsyorkies.com and you will see the same thing...puppies for $5000 and more as well as puppies for $650. There is a valid reason for this. Yorkies all look different.