Poll: recent prices paid and which breed?

[Anonymous]

Australian Labradoodle - $2500

Hypoallergenic
No allergic reaction from him and I've had him for 3 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the OP of the Havanese post.

The first breeder I contacted charges $1800 ($500 upfront as a deposit.)

Is this in line with what others are paying for purebred dogs, particularly hypoallergenic ones?

Thanks.

This sounds llike a reasonable price. Trying to get a dog for less increases the possibility that you are buying a dog from a puppy mill. Havanese are very popular puppy mill breeds. Do not buy from any breeder who won't let you visit the mom and pups together!

[Anonymous]

Mine turns out to be a purebred, but came from a kill shelter through a rescue.
250-fee
400 in xrays, blood work
1500 in tooth and bone extraction
1000 in allergy costs...visits, serums, tests, pills
4000 in acl repair,and subsequent tests
We love him, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine turns out to be a purebred, but came from a kill shelter through a rescue.
250-fee
400 in xrays, blood work
1500 in tooth and bone extraction
1000 in allergy costs...visits, serums, tests, pills
4000 in acl repair,and subsequent tests
We love him, though.

Ironically, although he is allergic to everything, he does not shed and is hypoallergenic to us. He is allergic to just about everything....environment, some foods

[Anonymous]

Doberman, $50 at a shelter. The shelter asked DH and I to adopt him, and we did. Best decision ever.

[Anonymous]

Please, please, please look into breed-specific rescues before buying from a breeder. I get all the reasoning behind it, I do, but there really are pure bred dogs out there available for rescue and often times they are in foster care or home rescue networks rather than the pound. You may have to wait a little longer to be matched with the right dog for you (both in terms of what you want and what the rescue dog needs), but it's worth it. Also, look into fostering some of the other "hypoallergenic" dog breeds and maybe you can broaden your search outside Havanese if you find that some of the others don't trigger your allergies. At the very least, take your kids to a kill shelter and show them what you're choosing to do. That would be a better lesson on the death of a pet than just having a rescue pet die a year or two earlier than a purchased puppy.

[Anonymous]

About $1800 to $2200 for a golden.
Incidentally, we have spent two years trying to get a golden or similar retriever under the age of 5 and no major medical or behavioral issues from a rescue organization with no luck. We spent the last six years dealing with major medical issues and death of our last dog so would really like a few active healthy years before we dive into that again. We are going the breeder route because we don’t want to wait any longer. But I do know lots of people that have gotten lucky with rescues...just not us.

I also feel like it’s a little ironic that people lament about going to a breeder for a puppy when there are plenty of KIDS that need homes—-yet no one guilt trips you when you choose to conceive your own child. Maybe we should have stronger laws in this country about spay/neuter/caring for pets, and then we wouldn’t have such a problem with unwanted pets in shelters. It’s also yet another way in which the northern states are subsidizing the South—a lot of these shelter dogs are imported from the South, where people apparently can’t be bothered to spay/neuter or keep their dogs inside.

[Anonymous]

We got both of our Aussies whose parents are pure bred but they don't have papers (don't care) for $300 each. One from PA and the other from DE.

[Anonymous]

Mostly lab mix 6-month-old puppy from a shelter. $70

Great dog - great size, eager to please, easy to train. Best $70 i ever spent!

[Anonymous]

1,200 - Goldendoodle. He sheds like a GR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please, please, please look into breed-specific rescues before buying from a breeder. I get all the reasoning behind it, I do, but there really are pure bred dogs out there available for rescue and often times they are in foster care or home rescue networks rather than the pound. You may have to wait a little longer to be matched with the right dog for you (both in terms of what you want and what the rescue dog needs), but it's worth it. Also, look into fostering some of the other "hypoallergenic" dog breeds and maybe you can broaden your search outside Havanese if you find that some of the others don't trigger your allergies. At the very least, take your kids to a kill shelter and show them what you're choosing to do. That would be a better lesson on the death of a pet than just having a rescue pet die a year or two earlier than a purchased puppy.

Many people want puppies to have complete control over the training process. You hardly ever get puppies at breed rescues.

Two things are needed to decrease the unwanted pet population:
1. Continue with spaying and neutering efforts.
2. Creating and enforcing much stricter laws against puppy mills, like California just did. Ideally, the only breeders allowed would be responsible ones whose dogs live in their own homes and who prioritize the health of the line. We could do that by requiring that every potential breeding dog passes genetic health checks before being accepted as breeding stock. Currently, this is purely voluntary.

Shaming dog owners for going to responsible breeders for their puppies is NOT the solution. Not every household can handle the health and behavioral risks that come with the rescue of an adult dog.

[Anonymous]

$300 for each of our purebred giant dogs, from a breed-specific rescue. Best money spent ever.

[Anonymous]

+1 to PP "best money we ever spent." $350 for our beloved mutt from a local rescue and we adore him.

BTW, our rescue mutt is 100x smarter and sweeter than the purebred dog (purchased as puppy from breeder) I had as a child growing up!

[Anonymous]

My Havi was $1500 in 2008. He is the best!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please, please, please look into breed-specific rescues before buying from a breeder. I get all the reasoning behind it, I do, but there really are pure bred dogs out there available for rescue and often times they are in foster care or home rescue networks rather than the pound. You may have to wait a little longer to be matched with the right dog for you (both in terms of what you want and what the rescue dog needs), but it's worth it. Also, look into fostering some of the other "hypoallergenic" dog breeds and maybe you can broaden your search outside Havanese if you find that some of the others don't trigger your allergies. At the very least, take your kids to a kill shelter and show them what you're choosing to do. That would be a better lesson on the death of a pet than just having a rescue pet die a year or two earlier than a purchased puppy.

Many people want puppies to have complete control over the training process. You hardly ever get puppies at breed rescues.

Two things are needed to decrease the unwanted pet population:
1. Continue with spaying and neutering efforts.
2. Creating and enforcing much stricter laws against puppy mills, like California just did. Ideally, the only breeders allowed would be responsible ones whose dogs live in their own homes and who prioritize the health of the line. We could do that by requiring that every potential breeding dog passes genetic health checks before being accepted as breeding stock. Currently, this is purely voluntary.

Shaming dog owners for going to responsible breeders for their puppies is NOT the solution. Not every household can handle the health and behavioral risks that come with the rescue of an adult dog.

PP here. Literally almost all health problems dogs have are the result of humans creating what we currently deem "pure breeds." You are not at all setting yourself up for an easy life free of health and behavioral issues just because you raise the animal from a puppy. There are breed specific rescues because people buy dogs they can't handle and give them away. If you cannot handle a certain level of commitment and uncertainty about what you're getting, you shouldn't be a dog owner in the first place. And there are absolutely puppies and younger dogs available in rescue.

Your two solutions are valid, but as long as people continue to be willing to shell out 4 figure sums for puppies, no one has an incentive to spay/neuter or support regulations that make it harder for them to make that money.

As for shaming dog owners, well if you feel ashamed that you bought a puppy even though you are fully aware of the thousands of dogs in need of a home, that's on you.