Respectfully...No one still has said anything about my first reply...My sister showed three Salukis to championship and not ONE cost more than $500...the bitch I purchased is of quality, temperament, very sound bitch...I paid no where near $1000...and by the way one probably couldn't purchase a pup for $1000 from a show breeder...I was at a show in October and just happened to ask a show breeder what she charges for a PET quality pup...starting at $1600!!!!!...I know of a boxer breeder who has championed a lot of boxers asking tens of thousands of dollars for a show dog...if I'm spending $10000 for a pup she(he) better take out the garbage,do the dishes and laundry,drive me to work:0)...you all said that $1000 is a drop in the bucket...bless you all...because in this economy and where I'm from $1000 is a lot of money...by the way I know I'm 53 but I'm up for adoption from any of you ladies...There are tons of puppy mills in Pennsylvania not to far from where I live...one can pick up a pup for around $600...I've bred and showed boxers...I know the show game also...stacking the deck...show people know what I mean...and this notion that because one tests and show there dogs that the puppy purchaser has to absorb these costs...it's a personal choice to show a dog, and test there dogs...no one pays my vet bills...and last is that there is now way you can tell me that by line breeding, your dogs are free from congenital/hereditary diseases...if you can then you belong working in research...there would be no cancers, diabetes, etc...What you can do is spay or neuter a dog or bitch if there shown to have a hereditary disease that can be passes on...and breed for standard so that the physical mechanics are sound... |