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Originally Posted by niki35010  I will never believe that people that have more than one female and breed them and sell their puppies for 1000-2000..does not make any money. If you show them and have to purchase all of the showing fees...etc...then maybe not but for the ones that don't show and sell their puppies for that much....MAKES NO SENSE!!!! Just say that you have 2 females and they have 4 puppies each...=8 puppies..and say that you sell each of them for $1000 ea. You made $8000....ok say that they have a c-section and that was 2000....you still have $6000....You made money!!!!!!!! |
A dog from a show breeders line will be at least $2000.
If you have two breeding females and one male that is $6000.
So you are already $6000 in the hole and those would be some cheap dogs.
Add $500 per dog to do testing.
Now you are $7500 in the hole.
Between food and treats it costs about $100 a year per dog.
Even if you sold your breeding dogs after they were done producing at about 6 years old you would have to pay $100 a year for food and treats for each dog. That is $600 per dog, so now you are $9300 in the hole.
Then you have yearly vet checks for these three breeders. Shots, bloodwork, heartworm med, flea med, urinalysis... This would be about $225 a year not including dentals.
Now you are $9975 down.
Dentals would be about $150-$200 per dog when needed.
Then you have shots for pups and dewclawa and tails and vet checks.
Then there are c-sections.
What if one of your dogs needs LP surgery?
That would be another couple thousand.
How about if one of the pups has a liver shunt?
You would end up paying between $2000-$3000 for testing and treatment.
This doesn't include toys, bedding, clothes, leashes, harnesses, crates, registration fees, buying more dogs to breed, missing work to watch puppies...
And then there will always be girls who have one litter and then have to be spayed. So it is very easy to make no money.