Is it so wrong...

I still think breeders do make money.

If you count the price of their dog, and the cost of getting the dog titled and whatnot, yeah, its less.


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Do you know what it costs to Title or put Championships on a dog? Keeping in mind the higher the Title, the more time was invested which equals a lot more $$.

IMO, you can't compare. To compete with a dog/s, no matter in what event, whether it be conformation, sports, field, obedience etc, a weekend can cost nothing less than a couple of hundred dollars and that is if it happens to be close to home. If you start going for multiple days (or a week+), staying in hotels, your weekends can cost $800+. And entry fees get higher and higher as each year goes by. Do that more than once a month or a few times a year and you are spending thousands and upwards of tens of thousands. And some people haul almost EVERY weekend or at least 2-3 times a month to multiple day events.........

I'll give you an example for just agility, for a local agility trial (meaning within 2hrs of home) for 3 days of competing with 1 dog. If you enter 5 classes per day ( the norm) that is $260.00 + in entry fees alone. Fuel: $40.00 - 60 +, Hotel: $300.00, that doesn't include food etc.

Average entry per class: $15.00-30.00 depending on where and what you are entering and the Association).

Going for one day (which we often do to cut down on expenses), entries would be around a hundred, plus fuel etc.

Sharing expenses with a friend is very common for fuel and hotels.

But either way it is expensive and it doesn't matter what event it is and that certainly doesn't take into account any money spent on trainers/training or grooming/handlers for conformation.

Health testing: a lot of money spent there as we all know...........and that is going to increase in some areas more and more as they find Genetic Markers for the different issues. Each disease/condition.........another DNA test at $65.00 +.

Plus all the other expenses in Vet bills before and after a litter...........PLUS, PLUS & PLUS..............

So what if someone has a litter of 10 puppies that they sell for a high price.......that bitch very well could have had tens of thousands spend on her or at the very least a few thousand. And the money is just cycled back around again as they continue to PROVE their dogs and test their dogs.

On the other hand a brb, typically has a stud dog and 2-4 bitches (cheap purchases typically as well because the rep breeders wont sell to such people), breeds each bitch at least once a year or more, often doesn't do any kind of health testing, and doesn't prove their dogs in anything. I would be willing to bet that the average brb MIGHT have a $100.00 invested in each pup, but that is probably way to high.

I know of a brb, has 1 stud, 8 bitchs, breeds twice a year and wont keep a bitch unless she produces at least 4-5 in a litter. Unregistered dogs (pugs actually), no health testing and certainly doesn't do anything else with them. Charges $800.00 per pup..............makes over $50,000 a year?

I know others too, makes me sick, one brags that their *dog* income is over $60,000 a year..............nice.

No comparsion on any level, imo.

. Its crazy to me how much price fluctuates depending on what part of the US you live in.