Yes, Mary is right. I read the statement about the money thing and I really do not believe this to be true for breeder exhibitors, since we are always in the hole and having to spend so much of our money on our dogs. We show to prove breed worthy. We want to make sure our dogs have what it takes to breed and we go further by having our dogs tested to further make sure. All this cost us a lot of money. Just to show a dog - it cost a min. of about 2,000 and that is if s/he finishes quickly. This does not include the grooming supplies, table, leads, etc... or RV cost to go to shows. Then you have the cost of our dog if we buy from outside - very expensive!! If you use a champion stud - very expensive we are talking way above 500.! Testing is very expensive. Then if you have a c-section - my last one was 809.01 just last week (the last pup was bent in half head touching feet and drawing to come down canal bent in half not going to make it - see photo. Her other 4 were born fine. She is just over 6 pounds). Believe me - we do not do this to make money. So it is not the show breeders that are making any money. Right now I have one going through lessons to be a therapy dog, 99.00 for classes and then we volunteer our time. So this is not for the money! |