This is quite funny when you think about the cost. We pay it and go on but there are a few ways to help out. First learn to groom your own dogs, order and learn to give your own shots, learn to do your own tail docking and help some of your friends learn how.( Kimberly) Get to be very good friends with your vet, so you can call him in the middle of the night at his house..... I always give Dr. Shimek gift certificates for his favorite resturants and I bring the girls in the clinic treets. I refer all my clients to him. I have a relationship with my vet I can walk in the back door at any time and he is there for me. Somestimes he doesn't even charge me. The exrays are only good for you if you can not wait to see how many. I have heard vets many times say the heads are to big, when they have not been.
But now we can go on ...what about the car we need to go to the shows, of corse we want to finish the dogs before we breed them. And we need to pay handlers until we learn how to do this ourselves . If you are lucky between 2,000 and up. So now we have learned to show our dogs ourselves , now it get crazy.. we need the clothes and our nails done, make up yes it can go on and on. It all has to factor into the price we charge for our puppies. If you bought your dog for 750.00 you are so much father ahead than me. I am amused by this thread and it does make you think. Thanks for the great idea!!
Debbie Ray
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