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07-07-2007, 02:55 PM | #16 |
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| How come yorkies are so expensive? And other breeds you can find for $300 to $500?
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07-07-2007, 03:05 PM | #17 |
I Love My Lil' Punkin's Donating Member | Well I have to admit, Tate was expensive. Granted she has Champion Bloodlines (she has Durrer lines in her) and came from a very known and well respected Show Breeder - but she was worth every SINGLE penny. Her breeder actually wanted to keep her for show, but Tate is just too small. She was $2,500 but her breeder was so kind and let me have her for $2,000. And NO...I honestly wouldn't buy a purebred dog without papers.
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07-07-2007, 03:27 PM | #18 | |
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07-07-2007, 03:38 PM | #19 | |
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She is considered "show quality" - she is just too darn small, LOL. It may sound like alot of money to some people, but if you know anything at all about the Durrer Bloodlines, you might think otherwise And, show breeders ARE going to have show breeder prices. I already knew that when I found her. Sure, I probably could have found a cute little girl for $1000-$1500, but I fell in love with my baby and being that she came from a wonderful and very well respected quality show breeder who STILL keeps contact with me over the phone and through e-mail, just makes me all the more glad that I chose her and spent the money I spent. I wouldn't trade her for anything in THE WORLD and I think the fact that she sells her babies for $2,500 and kindly let me have my baby for $2,000 because she knew that we were saving up for a trip to Germany was WONDERFUL and very kind of her. She is a great breeder and I would go back to her in a MINUTE
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07-07-2007, 03:50 PM | #20 |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
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| I'm going to interject here, just because I am a breeder/exhibitor. You would be absolutely pleasantly surprised at how low the prices show breeders adoption fees are. More often than not they are less than breeders that you find on the internet and advertise in the paper who are just breeding to sell puppies. First of all breeder/exhibitors are breeding for themselves for their next champion to add to their breeding program, that one special puppy that has the "it" factor. Unfortunately, we can't keep all the puppies, so they are placed in preapproved homes. The problem is since we only breed for that next Champion we only breed 1 or 2 litters a year and have a waiting list.
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07-07-2007, 03:52 PM | #21 |
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| Not for a Durrer dog with an impeccable pedigree and health, structure and temperament.
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07-07-2007, 03:53 PM | #22 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Texas
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| Honestly, for pet quality without papers, I wouldn't pay more than $600! |
07-07-2007, 03:58 PM | #23 |
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| Papers aren't necessary to me. As long as I can see the parents, play the puppy, and get some sort of guarantee from the breeder, then I don't care too much about papers. I paid $700 for Luigi which is AMAZING here in southern California. I refused to pay more than $1000, even that was pushing it. My limit was more around $900 haha. So I did a big search and found many breeders selling for around those prices...some with papers even! I personally can't see myself ever paying more than that much for a doggy, unless I was going to show them or breed them.
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07-07-2007, 03:59 PM | #24 | |
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07-07-2007, 04:10 PM | #25 |
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| So how much would a show dog go for from this line?
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07-07-2007, 04:10 PM | #26 | |
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07-07-2007, 04:17 PM | #27 |
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| prices I was talking to a friend in my old MD Yorkie club yesterday...prices are just not that high for a pet from a show breeder compared to the Jeff Danes and Wizard of Claws type breeders. I have seen darling, champion-sired males for $750/800. I feel a dog of any breed is worth what the pet owner wants to pay...if money was not an issue and I saw one I wanted, I would pay whatever the breeder asked... Last edited by YorkieRose; 07-07-2007 at 04:19 PM. |
07-07-2007, 04:28 PM | #28 |
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| I am looking for a dog and after a year on YT I know that I want a pet quality, healthy, and genetically healthy, home bred (not backyard bred), loved, cared for dog from a reputable breeder who knows the breed very well. Now that I'm retired, I know what I can afford, which is in the vicinity of $1000, give or take a couple of hundred. If I had a lot of money, it wouldn't really matter, but until I win that lottery, I have a limit.
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07-07-2007, 04:31 PM | #29 |
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| I think paper prove it's a pure bred. I would not pay anything over 1500 for a dog without papers. |
07-07-2007, 04:40 PM | #30 | |
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Definition of a backyard breeder is not reference to where they are bred. They can be bred, whelped and raised in their home too.
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