How much would you pay for a dog?

Momwannabe · #1 01/14/08, 09:54 PM

I just bought a dog and I don't even know how much it is going to cost

I guess I should say, I just sent an email confirmation to the breeder and then I bought a plane ticket from MN to MD to go pick it up. Guess I'll find out when I get there, lol.

hmm. What's the most $$$ you have ever paid for a dog?

Freeholder · #2 01/14/08, 10:19 PM

I paid $125 (plus shipping) for one of my farm collies. My two-year-old female was 'free' (in trade for the puppy I'd given the breeder a few years earlier), but I had to pay shipping to get her out here, and that was almost $300, so not cheap.

You have to expect to pay for a good dog; on the other hand, some dogs are going for outrageous amounts of money.

Kathleen

GoldenMom · #3 01/14/08, 10:24 PM

Ruby was $1500 and I drove 5 hours each way to get her. She is worth every penny and now I'm saving up for my next dog from the same breeder.

For those that don't know me, I compete in obedience, field, and agility with my dogs so I am looking for a very, very specific dog.

Wendy · #4 01/14/08, 10:25 PM

I personally would never pay for a dog. I have found the best farm dogs to be mutts.

james dilley · #5 01/14/08, 10:26 PM

Well 12 years ago I bought a pair of Reg. Bluetick coonhounds $1,000.00 each was the asking. (they were M/F for breeding) Igot them for $200.00 total. I have No qualms about Price if its A dog I really want as A pup..Bought a Beagle 8 years ago for $150.00 in Ohio. I brought him home in the Truck. Just in time for Christmas that year!!!

rwinsouthla · #6 01/14/08, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by GoldenMom

Ruby was $1500 and I drove 5 hours each way to get her. She is worth every penny and now I'm saving up for my next dog from the same breeder.

For those that don't know me, I compete in obedience, field, and agility with my dogs so I am looking for a very, very specific dog.

You got me beat on price but not distance. We paid $800 for a sheltie at Christmas in 2005 a week after our other one died. But we drove 20 hours round trip from Louisiana, through Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, finally to Bowling Green, Kentucky to get her plus had to get a hotel room in Nashville. Prettiest dog I ever had but man is she the worst dog I ever had........but that's another story.

COSunflower · #7 01/14/08, 10:39 PM

My dogs have usually been given to me free or I have adopted them from the Humane Society. I currently have a pug - given to me by a student - and a lab mix given to me by my uncle when he retired.

Carolyn · #8 01/14/08, 10:42 PM

My Shelties were $700 and $500, and I think if they had been more, I would have paid the price for them. Carolyn

prometheus · #9 01/14/08, 11:35 PM

$300 for a field trial lines Labrador.

gunsmithgirl · #10 01/14/08, 11:45 PM

I have never paid for a dog before, all mine were strays. I am currently looking for a guard dog for home and business. If I don't find the right dog from a shelter I want to save up for a Cane Corso Mastiff. They average about $1000-1500.

DocM · #11 01/15/08, 12:11 AM

$150 for a jack russell. Two farm-breed (pyr) mixes that were $75 and $50. $70 adoption fee for a pb golden retriever at the animal shelter. My best dogs have been free, including my newest addition, a mastiff/rotti female. She's by far the best pup I've ever encountered.

Bearfootfarm · #12 01/15/08, 12:32 AM

My most expensive so far has been $750, but the one I loved the most was only $50

jen74145 · #13 01/15/08, 12:43 AM

A dog... ours have been strays/pups that just needed a home. We do have a gorgeous black lab we found last March that no one claimed, but apart from that, $60 for my sheltie who surprisingly was from a really good breeder.
Now, cats (and ya'll will laugh me out of this thread, lol) we paid $1000 for our main bengal tom and $800 for the other silver stud. We were fortunate in that our first queen was given to us (long story) and we traded for our second and have kept daughters from each to breed someday. Really though, those prices are nothing... for a stud or queen of any quality you usually wind up paying 1500-3500, and some of those 3500 queens I've run across have more health problems, while the toms are so nasty you can't touch them... and, they're from HUGE breeders that basically run the game. Sickening.

With Lou, I had been searching for a male kitten from his father for ages when I found him... turned out his breeder lived two miles from us and the father had recently been neutered... there was one more litter expected, but from a queen that did not impress me. He has been the best, gives us healthy, gorgeous babies with his temperament and is the best "babysitter" our girls could ask for.

I have yet to breed Atlas, but have even higher hopes for him.

HomeOnTheFarm · #14 01/15/08, 12:48 AM

I think we paid about $75 for ours...he's a German Shepherd/Black Lab mix. Super-smart, very protective, and incredibly docile with our preschooler and toddler. The only drawback with him is his tendency to roam around, so I guess that technically, I'd need to add in the cost of the electric fencing, plus the neuter?

hotzcatz · #15 01/15/08, 01:00 AM

Well, how much we would pay for a dog depends entirely on the dog. Some dogs I'd pay NOT to have.

At the moment we have paid for border collies although we bought them from someone we sold one to years ago so if you buy a dog from a person you sold a dog to at the same price what's the price you ended up paying?

nana-san · #16 01/15/08, 01:12 AM

We paid 300 for our Rottie who we had to put down last year after 13 1/2 years. She was the best.

Quint · #17 01/15/08, 01:31 AM

$200 for a very good Black Lab from excellent boodlines. Outstanding dog and the smartest I've ever seen or had. Still miss him terribly.

3kidsomy · #18 01/15/08, 02:10 AM

I paid $500 for our male pug(my x-mas present this year) $600 for our female pug, i paid $400 for our white gsd 8 years ago, but our pain in the butt who thinks he is the best herding dog there is rottie was free!

Rascal · #19 01/15/08, 02:46 AM

$200 for my GS. Overall the best investment Ive ever made. I got her to be a guard dog & she does just that. Nobody creeps up on this house without her knowing & by loudly barking tells me about it & she doesn't attack & bite, which I don't want. I'm not way out in the country, & I don't want a vicious attack dog. She knows all she has to do is wake me up & I will deal with whatever is there.

I can put her into a car take her to town & people will come up & pet her & kids & shes alright, she is people friendly, I can take her anywhere & not worry about it. Ive had people that breed GS ask me if they can breed with her because of her looks & temprament. I didn't buy her to breed her though. She is a purebred.

She's great around chickens, doesn't eat them & chases off anything that comes in the yard. She doesn't roam the neighborhood or get lost. Yet she will guard the ones she loves & this place. She can also read people. She can figure out if someone has good or ill intent

SFM in KY · #20 01/15/08, 05:32 AM

The most I've ever paid for a puppy was years ago when I was breeding and showing Rottweilers ... over a several years I bought several different puppies and paid $800 for each of them. They came from a kennel in Georgia and I lived in Montana.

The most I've paid for an adult dog was $2500 for a trained working Rottweiler that we used in a private security business my ex and I owned.

A very good friend who has raised and shown dogs most of her life now breeds Toy Manchester Terriers and she gets between $800 and $1200 for her puppies ... but they are some of the top winning show dogs in their breed in the country.