You feel my pain..lolol.Well the going rate for sleepless nights is about $80 a night that's what I pay the mid-wife that keeps my moms on labor watch..rofll..

I want to know how breeders can sell them for less than $1000 and provide good quality Yorkies over all? I'm sure they have some that come out fine and that's great

I wish I was making something to at least break even..lolol. But I enjoy it and I DON'T tally my expenses because I don't want to see the end result..rofllll..

Hugs,
Wini

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i just gave away three yorkie male puppys to my sister , nephew an wife an my sisters neighbor who did some work for my sister after her husbands death he has a 15 year old poodle an a 15 year old shtzu i kept the runt who is a female an sold 1 female an i did it because i knew they were going to great homes money means nothing if they aren't in great homes but i do know why the cost is so much

What really irritate me is peoples always wanting to pay the lower prices and wanting the higher quality .

I think she was referring to ads from people WANTING a yorkie, but I understand what you are saying...


and YES, it makes me just as upset to see those ads as it does for those members here who complain about the yorkies whose breeders are asking $3500-$5000 for.

To me, if there are some altruistic breeders out there who can afford to spread the yorkie joy by offering these precious babies for such ridiculously low prices, then that's fine if they choose the homes carefully, but, what I am afraid these prices mean is that the breeder may not be caring properly for the mother and the litter and may be letting the puppies go way too young to avoid all the costs involved with raising them to the proper age of 12 weeks before adopting them out.

I have asked a lot of breeders what it costs to raise a puppy to 12 weeks and most agree that it is at least $1000 if all goes well and that is not including their TIME!!!!

If it is gouging for the breeder to ask more than say $2000 then what is it when a buyer asks to pay less than $500????

Very well said!

Hey, thanks....I did get a bit long-winded there. LOL!

haha! Yuppers, I've been guilty of that, too! :D

Agree...if someone can't afford to buy a dog, how are they going to afford to properly care for it...especially if, God forbid, something were to happen to it medically. That is how all of the poor babies end up in need of being rescued to begin with.

From a rescue point I know what you mean. I always sorta cringe when I hear or see people that want an inexpensive dog. I have always said if you can't afford to buy/adopt the dog you can't afford to keep the dog. I really am sorry that these little guys are not a cheap date but just look at the threads this week and the health issues many of the YT members have run into. The thousands of dollars people have had to pay to make their little ones well again. It is so sad but that is the reality of these dogs.

Just so you know yorkie rescue's are not always at a bargain price either. And yes we hear the same things but in our case they want it free. A good rescue will take in a dog and do whatever it takes to make the dog well again and in many cases it is into the thousands of dollars. Some of the issues could have been prevented with good health care, i.e. dental but many of the people either didn't know, didn't care, or didn't have the money to take care of their animals until finally the animal was sick and the vet presented them with a hugh bill and they turned the animal over to rescue. Rescue's usually take the older dogs, the petshop dogs, the backyard breeders dogs (inexpensive dogs in many cases & with a lot of inherited health issues). Rescue's use their own $$$ to make them well again and do what the owner should have done. Many vets help with the costs on these rescue's but our average cost was $350. Even if we got a healthy younger dog, we still would have a health checkup and most cases we had to bring them up to speed on their vaccinations so never did one rescue not cost us something. There were times that we would take a rescue out of the pound and take it to our own vet knowing it was dying but we wanted someone to hold this little one while it passed over to the Rainbow Bridge. This also cost money that could not be recouped but we just couldn't stand the thought this sweet little animal had to die by itself and be thrown on a pile of other dead dogs because the owner asked the pound to euthanize it because it was old and sick. These people didn't have the $$$ or didn't want to take the animal to their own vet because it would cost them money. :mad:

The best a rescue can ever hope for is to breakeven so they can continue doing their work because someone has to.

We always told prospective adopters that at a minimum you will pay about $400 yearly for the dog. This includes food, grooming, a yearly exam and other incidentals. As all of you know this really is at the low end as the animal ages.

I know some people would say that everyone deserves to own a Yorkie but then I think I deserve to own a 10 million dollar home, my own private jet and a slew of other things that I just can't afford. So I don't have them.

Ok, I will get off of my soapbox now.

Cindy & The Gang :aimeeyork

Cindy thank you for that! YOu do add valuable information to this thread from a rescue perspective. What is the name of your Rescue and do they have a website? How about Auctions?

Hugs,
Irene

Thanks Irene for your kind words. :) Right now our website is down but because we told every vet in AZ that has not slowed down the flow of Yorkie's coming in or the phone calls. My friend and I finally got some people in Phoenix to help as the majority of the dogs were coming from Phoenix which is 2 hours away and they are listed under CABRA which is an umbrella for all breed rescue in AZ. My friend had to go away for a couple of months and I work full time for a major corporation so we had to slow things down for the time being. We are just word of mouth now for the Tucson area. Maybe that is why I finally found YT and I really have been enjoying this group. Hopefully when my friend gets back (she is the front person and I am the foster mom person) we can get back up running again.

Cindy & The Gang :aimeeyork

Hey now, i was once one of those people looking for a "cheaper" yorkie... but i still wouldnt call it cheap. I did my research thoroughly and got landed with "toby" ...lol (im kidding i really do love him... he has had no problems at all and he is just what i was looking for... he was $500).. You do have to look at it from all perspectives though. . . When i was looking for one: i went to the shelters and got rejected because i didnt own a home, :mad: so i started to look at breeders and there was a great range in price. Toby doesnt have papers, but i wanted "pet quality" anyway. I looked for months for a yorkie that was "the right price" while i saved up more and more money. And lets be honest here, the only expensive part of vet bills is if there is something unexpected ect. and you can avoid that by getting pet insurance. Spay/ nueter is cheap, shots are cheap, ect. . . I did my homework before buying the dog and knew exactly what i was getting into, but again with medical care you can shop around with that too. . . just because one vet charges an arm and a leg doesnt mean they all do. . . so, does it bother me when people want to find a dog on a lower budget? nope just advise them to take their time and shop around. .. what does bug me though is when people make ignorant comments that "people that work full time shouldnt have a yorkie" or "college students arent secure enough to own a yorkie" ect.

I will definately agree with you here. I work a full time job. I have a Yorkie. My sister is in college...she has a Yorkie too. I'll throw in another one: I have a young child (4 yrs). Are people with kids not supposed to have a full time job either? My opinion is...I MAKE plenty of time for both my child and my dogs...if I didn't think I could do that, I wouldn't have had a child or gotten dogs. But you know, both dogs and child like to eat and have a warm, safe place to sleep...takes money...

The part that I get the most upset about is that if the person asking for a "free or cheap" pet can't afford to put more money into the pet itself, then what are they going to do when heaven forbid something happens and they need to go to the vet for an emergency trip such as I've had to do in the past several weeks and spend several hundred dollars a pop? What are they going to do when their little beloved pet that they couldn't afford to buy in the first place needs vet treatment and they cannot afford to get it? Are they going to beg for that too? I know I sound a little harsh, but it's the truth. This day and age, people want more than what they can afford and properly take care of. If you can't afford it and you can't afford the care it will take, the foreseeable and not, then you shouldn't own it...PERIOD.

I agree! My friend got Guinness for $300.. without any paper.. Guinness is a wonderful yorkie... and.. it was good deal for my friend .... Some people cannot afford but sometimes they get lucky.. and.. all yorkies are... adorable anyway :)