My high end bitch cost me $1,980 after shipping.
There is little need for "pet" Yorkshire Terriers to be sold for close to that amount. PERIOD.
If your hard work and money has been put into your bitch and sire, be it competition, whatever...and the best they are producing are dogs that they themselves aren't breeding quality, then perhaps it is time you stop putting said time/money into these dogs if your purpose is to try and make back money with their progeny. That isn't how the "game" of breeding goes. You can put the time and money into your dogs, but you wouldn't be wise to assume that doing so will make you a milionare or help make back on expenses (significantly) on the progeny. You put the money/time into your dogs because you love the breed and you love the sport.
Charge high, that's fine...but I think anyone that produces a puppy should price fairly according to what the dog at hand is actually capable of being/doing. A pet is valuable indeed. BUT it's those that have the healthy dogs that can be no more than pets that should be charging the lower prices so those that then go to petstores and puppymills get them rather than the unhealthy, mass produced and poorly bred pups.
Make sense? |