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Originally Posted by Golden Parti  a little education on breeding Parti Colored Yorkies.
Current Cost of dogs as set by supply and Demand $4000 to $5000 each
Cost of flying to check out to make sure breeder is not a puppy mill, another roughly another 1000 per breeder. Cost of health and Care for your new Parti colored dogs 1300 to 1400 per year.
Now raise your dogs for a couple of years and hope they have desirable traits of their parents. If they do not turn out the right size or with proper traits. Start over and find a new dog, possibly including cost to fly to visit breeder.
Ok, if you are lucky in a couple years and $13000 invested later you get your first puppies. OOOps, there are complications and you have to have C section. The vet also ends up nuetering the dog $500 to $2000 Start over and wait another 2 years unless you can find someone selling an adult for another $5000.
Is the price starting to make any sense yet? which cost should a responsible breeder cut? Do you believe they should skimp on the health care? Should they Skip checking out the breeders? Raising any dogs and giving them proper care is not cheep. |
I'm sorry, I have to laugh a little at the way you've worded this and that fact that you feel I need "a little education" on the costs for caring for dogs.
If it wasn't so funny, I might be insulted.
The justification of costs seems to come largely in part of the initial purchase of the breeding stock--there seems to be the problem. So because one person was willing to pay an arm and a leg for a dog, everyone down the line must do the same. Although I fully understand
why many are charging more for them, I fail to understand how one can justify the difference in cost between a parti and a standard colored dog. Oh yeah, it's that supply and demand thing again...
People who may or may not have any general knowledge of what a Parti is get an itch to get a rare Yorkie and fork over the big bucks. Bonus points for them if they can get one w/ breeding rights and turn around and profit off of them.
