[candybaby]

Originally Posted by JCarlson2004

I totally understand how you feel and I agree with some of your post, but I respectfully disagree with one part ... "the ones that sell theirs for over $2,000 it does not cost that much for quality dog food, shots, dewormer, tail docked, and dew claws."

This is how I look at breeding (from my limited knowledge), a breeder gets no perks (except of course all the puppy kisses LOLOL))!!! And when I say perks, I will use my job as an example. If I work overtime through my lunch hour, my firm buys my lunch. If I work late, my firm buys my dinner AND they send me home in a company car!! I get paid overtime for every minute ... even if I only work 15 minutes overtime.

No one MAKES me go to work ... I do it because I want to. So should I not be paid because I choose to work? Should I not be compensated for working all day and should I not be compensated for working overtime?

So now if a breeder (for example) has 5 pups and the mama is sick and can't nurse the pups, then you have to bottle feed them all day long, plus you must wake up at intervals all night long to bottle feed FIVE pups!! Who pays the breeder for overtime?? Who buys then lunch and dinner? Who sends them off to the vet in a company car? It all comes out of the breeders pocket ... even friggin gas to get back and forth to the vet!!

So yes, I feel that breeders should be compensated for their TIME as well as everything else that goes into breeding.

A breeder I knew recently had a pup who eye was scratched and had to be rushed to the emergency vet ON A HOLIDAY!!! The vet bill was AMAZINGLY HIGH!! So that too should account for the price of the pup ... the breeder should not sell a pup and then be set back financially ... because if all breeders did that, no one would breed and we would not have these little angels that we all love so much!!

Again, all this is just my opinion so please no yelling.

Okay, but do you go to work because you have to i.e. pay bills, have luxuries, etc... Or do you go because you are bored and you just LOVE WORK???? Some people say they breed because they love the breed and they do not do it for money those are the people that I'm talking about.

And as for going to the vet on holiday's because a pup scratched his eye then that puppy should cost more because the breeder put more into that puppy. Or a litter that needed to be bottle fed then charge a little more for that litter, but then if they are doing it for the love then they shouldn't mind having to stay up all night doing that. In my opinion not all puppies should cost an arm and a leg not always do things happen to all puppies. All I'm saying is WHATEVER is put into a puppy the breeder should get back plus a tad bit extra to put back into breeding if they are doing it out of love. Otherwise they need to state they are doing it to make a little extra money on the side. Now don't forget I'm talking about the breeders that charge over $2000 for a puppy.

No hard feelings these are all our personal feeling