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Originally Posted by POwsley  Thanks everyone for responding.............although many of you seem to be all over the place with answers. Ok so most of you agree that $850 is an average price for a puppy that a new owner would be able to register. We are not interested in showing but would have liked to have put him out for stud a couple of times to recoup some of the purchase price. Unfortunately with the conditional pedigree it will be 4 generations down from him before the pups would have a full registration. I am pretty sure there is next to none who would want to use him to sire pups if all they could get was a conditional pedigree. I spent alot of time on the phone with the AKC to try to understand what a conditional pedigree meant so I have a very clear understanding of it. I too wondered why the breeder did not know that there was a question with our little guy's father's pedigree...........but they were first timers so who knows. Perhaps they had purchased him for their female and the transfer of his papers had not gone through when the pups were born. We will be going back to the breeder to ask for $300 back on the purchase price because he was sold as a puppy who could be registered...papers given to us at the time of purchase. In answer to the questions about when we got him and what shots.....7 weeks and absolutely no shots and no spay/neuter contract either. |
I do not agree that $850 is the average price of an AKC Yorkie male puppy. I wrote that it was a fair price for a "pet quality" and I meant, it is on the very low end of the price scale.
Pet Quality male Yorkie puppies, you should expect to pay $1,500, and more if you are New England, California, and some other parts of the country.
Yorkie puppies with breeding rights (no spay/neuter contract) cost more than that.
Prices can vary for a number of reasons.
I agree with CouversMom. Enjoy your pet. Forget about studding, which requires a lot more than a piece of paper showing several generations of AKC Yorkie names. I'm proud of my boys and they have a nice lineage, and they are healthy, but they are not perfect breeding quality. That is why the breeder sold them to me as pets.
It is wrong that the breeder sold the pup to you under false pretenses.