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Originally Posted by wigglewomyn  WOW, I wish I lived near where you do. It cost me over $225 to get my puppy neutered a few months ago.
Apparently you live in an area where there are different types of dogs in shelters. I live in Syracuse NY where the OP Sudie lives. I checked daily with our shelter for over a year for a "small" dog. Almost all our shelter gets are pitbulls and/or large dogs. They rarely get any small dogs or puppies. I have friends that work there that would also call me if they did. In ONE YEAR, I received TWO calls.
That $250 that the OP wants to buy a yorkie with would barely get her a pitbull at our local shelter; they charge $180 to adopt a dog.
I wish her good luck. This is a hard area to find a yorkie in for a decent price. I would suggest she put the word out to friends, friends of friends, and family that she would like a yorkie if anyone is giving one away. |
The place I got my little mister from charged nothing (it was a pound called a city shelter). We paid 10.00 to heart worm test him (optional) and 68.00 to neuter him at a regular vet, not a county run neuter facility. The pound took the money and gave it to the vet since the pound does not release the furry kids until they are neutered/spayed. They do not trust a contract promising the new owners will neuter them, the pound themselves dropped our guy off at the vet and we picked him up at the vet. In fact, I think the pound actually subsidized the neutering a little, but I am not sure.
We had looked a few times before, and they had no small dogs. This time it may have been fate. They had Mario and his brother Luigi. No, we did not name them, but we did keep Mario's name the same since he had been called that for 3 or weeks by the pound. About a week later, someone adopted Luigi.