Originally Posted by chachi (Post 925450)

Location is also a factor in the pricing

Originally Posted by mstplumeria (Post 925396)

I talked to one lady who told me the parents were 9 lbs and 12 lbs. I told her thanks anyways, I was interested in finding one within the AKC Standard, and she told me her dogs were AKC Registered and thererfore WERE within the standard. I wonder how many people would fall for that?



Thanks to everyone who has replied! I enjoy reading everyone's opinions!
Missy

Originally Posted by yorkieusa (Post 925686)

Ha-ha! Isn't that the truth. The higher the real estate, the higher the yorkies.

Originally Posted by CO_yorkie_momma (Post 924986)

I am a breeder that does not show my dogs but it is certainly something I am interested in for the near future. Like you pointed out, yorkies are priced rather high and a breeder that has several dog has obviously put a huge amount of money into buying thier breeding stock. My dogs cost me anywhere from $1500.00 to well over 3000.00 to buy. My cages alone cost nearly 200.00 a piece and while I dont cage them except to sleep at night, I still need to have them to be able to seperate dogs when the females come in to heat. The vet bills are very expensive and I have been lucky and havent had health issues or needed C sections but just the shots and wormings and xray and yearly checkups are quite pricey where I live. I feed my dogs only the highest quality food and supplements and spend a small fortune on treats, supplies, grooming products, whelping supplies, and so on and so on and it adds up. I wont lie to you and say I am not in this to make money. It will be a few years before I ever see a profit but I do hope it will happen one day. I have invested way too much money, time and effort into doint this to not want to profit from it. Not every breeder cant start off with show quality dogs and as the previous poster stated, we arent all greeders. I am not sure what the feelings are behind that remark but many of us have bought the best dogs we could get to start our breeding programs and once we get our feet in the door and establish ourselves then maybe we will be lucky enough to get even better dogs as we go on. To put all of us in the "greeder" category is very offensive and I dont appreciate it at all. Their are many moe expenses that are invloved and I am sure there are breeders here that have alot more experinece than I do and can add to the list but I hope this helps you understand some of the reasons it cost so much to breed yorkies. Also I guess I would add that why would we sell a dog for 500.00 when we paid so much for ours and the going rate for a well bred yorkie is so much higher. You dont build Land Rovers and sell them for Kia prices.