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Originally Posted by Ellie May  I think $1500 is entirely too cheap for a Yorkie.  People pay well over $1000 for the newest television set out or the best computer. It costs a lot of money to be a breeder. I don't think most of them make much if it is done right. Vet bills are very expensive, then what if mom needs a C-Section?
Yorkie rescues are a great thing. I have nothing against them. Do you know how hard it is to adopt from some of them though? You have to meet a ton of criteria and usually half of it is stupid. I have heard that shelters and rescues have turned people away for no good reason. So if I don't get a Yorkie from a shelter my other choice is a reputable breeder. No reputable breeder will purposely breed off-standard dogs. That would go against what they believe because if their dogs aren't standard, they haven't bred for the betterment of the breed.
My Yorkie is laying on my lap right now. She is the best doggie ever. She is, however, way off standard. It is not a big deal to me (although I think all Yorkies should meet the standard to be bred and hopefully produce standard dogs). Ellie cost $650. There is one small problem though. Ellie seems to be having health problems. The most expensive one may have been preventable if the breeder would have laid out the money to test her dogs for certain things to begin with. Sure I got a cheap dog, but I am paying it in vet bills and stress now. |
I didn't get a cheap dog, my Sabrina costed me $2500 and I bought her with the purpose of breeding her, my breeder has champions in her blood line and she breeds for the standard, she really thought Sabrina would grow to be a healthy 5-7 pound yorkie, but she didn't, she is only 3lbs, she gets hypoglycemic if I let her play to much, she cannot tolerate the cold, she was sick when I got her off of the plane they sent her to me on, cost was another $650.00 to take her to the vet emergency hospital VCA, not cheap, if you think about it I paid damn near $3500 for her, with cost of her air flight $275.00 and she is not a healthy baby, I have to really watch her. Yes I agree that breeding yorkies is very expensive I had to pay $3500 for a c-section but I kept the babies I had to bottle feed them for three months straight every two hours there was no way after putting in all that work that I was going to let these babies go, I looooooovvvvee them. At the same time I think I should of been compensated by the breeder who sold Sabrina to me, especially she was sick when I got her and then she didn't grow to be the size I was told she would be, her mother was 8lbs and her father was 6.5 pds, she should been a bigger baby.