Puppy Pricing and Opinion

Yep. I paid $300 for the best male dog I ever had. The very best dog I ever saw was given away as a started young dog. I seen one imported from Russia that had more than $9K tied up in getting a finished/winning dog here. Let's just say the Russian dude had to honor the warranty. Total piece of shit.

I am not the guy to answer as I think they are all too high. But I am cheap bastard.

Nice dogs in the pedigree you posted.

There are only two things that will answer your question and that is time and honesty.

S

 

This is solid advice. If I were willing to spend money this would also be my checklist.

Checking these boxes will not guarantee anything but it will sway the odds toward success and you can walk away with a puppy and the warm fuzzies.

One really can't place a dollar value on the warm fuzzies.

S

 

I like to make up fictional shit and tell a bunch of lies so I can feel like I can be a relevant part of the conversation. I think if you admit to telling lies from the jump people really can't look at you sideways down the road........

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This dog was bought for $300 as an 8 week old puppy. Kasai cost a serious chunk from his breeder. Miss Two Eyes was a pretty good chunk as well.

After he was of age there was a guy in the mountains of NC who wanted to breed to Kasai. He brought a female and the "baddest 41 pound male in the country" off GRCH Barracuda. This male cost $$$$$, way north of a whole lot of money, to get him here. He told us to have two dogs ready because it was his last check and they had some tentative plans for a $25K gathering. Cornbread was 39 or so on the chain and he was the first up. In just shy of ten minutes he had seen all he wanted and a lot of what he did not want to see. Then a couple hours of aftercare and unfortunately, he went home with just one bred bitch.

Cornbread's sister Chloe went up north to a camp that was oh so impressive. We were 'set up' as they say. 61 minutes later we rode home as happy as all get out.

Cornbread had a special date on his calendar soon after. When we got out of the truck at the show I bumped into the owner of the Barracuda male mentioned earlier. He was with the other camp and betting with them....til he saw Cornbread. He walked backed to the truck and they argued, then came over and said their dog was sick and they were paying the forfeit. I was young and a drinker at the time so my mouth started to spew-off. I still think it was chicken shit move but I later apologized for calling them chicken shits in front of a crowd.

At that gathering there were two males going for $15K and a CH. They were both good dogs, really good dogs but I felt Cornbread was better than the both of them. And again, young and by then, getting drunk. I let everyone know and that was disrespectful to the men that were in the box, the dogs in the box and to the game in general. Again, I later apologized, not for what I said, but the fact the place and time I chose to say it.

I told them if 2XW winner #1 was pitted with Cornbread a 9PM he would be done by 9:30 and if they would give me ten minutes to wipe his mouth out, he would be done with the second 2XW by 10:15 and we would all be telling stories on the ride home by 10:30.

When his sister Chloe was hooked for her second money was tight. I had some unexpected home repairs and that dipped into the dog money. I was in a financial bind. I sold Cornbread to a well-known dog man for $1500. He paid me $300 to deliver him an hour or so from home and then gave me $100 for a ragged ass crate held together with zip ties. And then another $100 for general purpose.

I put the dog in his car and I pulled off. Later I found out he slid the dog out the other side of the car and sold him for $4500 on my word, my mentor's word and they had no issue paying $4500 on his word. He went to the very area of the two dogs who went for a CH the night Cornbread collected a forfeit.

They do things a lot bigger than I would ever dream of doing, like as much as it cost me to build myu house. They invited a guy that owned a dog named Panther, several of the people from that show and put their best 43lb male on Cornbread and made him push the weight. Within a handful of minutes, they said go get so and so off the chain. In another handful of minutes, the result was the same. Over the next few weeks Cornbread created a number of chain spaces for them.

I then got a phone call that said, "I appreciate the fact you were man enough to call and apologize for the disrespectful shit you spewed that night but with what I just saw, you did not lie. The only thing I will say is that I don't think would have taken the full thirty minutes for either. But, it was still disrespectful". (I wanted to say sometimes the truth hurts but I figured I would take the smaller victory and be happy with that)

The biggest thing to make me truly know they felt that way is that I started to field calls from a number of people offering $$$$$ for anything remotely close to Cornbread. And me being the dumbass that I am, I turned down enough money to buy a new truck for Cornbread's sister and his half-brother. I am a true dumbass because that male won two matches for what would be pennies on the dollar compared to what I could/should have sold him for....and to this day those two W's are worth more. Any ding-a-ling can spend money, but no ding-a-ling can buy memories. I'm still a dumbass for thinking that way (big picture)

I paid $300 for Cornbread and his sister was given to me by the guy that bought her for $300 when she did not fit into the family life. His half-brother won twice, and he was gifted as well. When I bred him to his half-sister I kept one and gave four away to people I thought would be honest with them.

Babbling again. Money has absolutely nothing to with the quality of a dog or the potential/probable success of said dog. Period. Justifying the amounts by either the buyer or the seller on things like time and effort, a care and housing and medicines and all the things that cost money. None of that factors. Those are just things to talk about as there is no equation where money spent equals quality received, and that goes both ways.

Again, fictional stories where the $$$$$$ crosses paths with the $$$ and neither money amount dictates the eventual outcome. Good dogs are just good dogs, everything else is just conversation.

S

 

Nope. But lived just down the road from there.

S