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Updated to add a Bernese Mountain Dog. Not a regular price I suspect, and strings attached to the sale but it's still an advertised price.

I tried to answe this from work on my iPhone but it doesn't do edits very well. Firstly, I don't believe breeders who are selling pups should be asking about peoples work circumstances......it's not relevant in the vast majority of cases (Xolo's apparently excepted). It's not withholding important information, it's someone asking irrelevant questions. If I were seeking a puppy from a breeder I'd never met before, I would expect to be asked about where the pup would be housed, what it would be fed, what activities I had in mind (dog sports, showing etc), previous dog owning history etc. And these are questions I was asked when I bought my dogs. I would not expect to be asked about my work, my income, my employer, my friendships, my relationships....because that has absolutely nothing to do with the level of care I can and do provide a dog. Any dog (Xolo's excepted). There are loads of people who don't work, who own dogs and never let the dogs inside, never take them anywhere, feed them cheap crappy food, don't groom them. I am not one of them. Nor are a lot of other fulltime employees. It's not about being evasive, it's about relevant details.

And that's absolutely right and as it should be. Definitely your prerogative to sell your babies to whomever you see fit to own them. But by the same token, just as you assume a person working fulltime can't provide a good home, it's the prerogative of the prospective buyer to assume that breeders who won't consider full time workers to be suitable owners, arent breeding dogs of sound mind. Dogs that are capable of being left for extended periods without anxiety.

I don't want any more dogs thanks. Not right now anyway. I already have 3 pedigree pooches from breeders who care very much about the digs welfare, who didn't need to know that I worked. In fact the pup I now have is co-owned with the breeder and I believe she's more than happy with the home m providing and the level of care he's receiving. These are highly respected, ethical breeders of fabulous dogs.

But that particular breeder might advertise all their puppies at that price, we have no way of knowing as they don't say in the ad that the price is reduced. Hence the word 'may'.

it may not be typical but it's an advertised price for a pedigree puppy and therefor valid for this list.

Who isn't?

Working fulltime doesn't mean working 24 hours a day. If a breeder truly thought their dogs couldn't be alone for extended periods, I would not want a dog from them, it's that simple. I would want a dog who is resilient and balanced....capable of being alone and not suffering anxiety or fear. If they have to make an assessment of potential owners based on their work hours, I would seriously question the types of temperament they are producing. And I would not buy a dog from them.

How would you answer the question "Do you work full time?" or "How many hours per week do you work?" I simply wouldn't answer it. It's no ones business but mine and if that meant I wouldn't be considered for a puppy from that breeder, then I probably wouldn't want one. By the same token, if they wanted references, whether they be from vets, employers (god I still can't believe that particular requirement), friends, dog trainers.......I'd look elsewhere.

I only included the breeds that had advertised prices on the DOL puppy listings. I am not interested in what breeds are "worth", just the average advertised price of pedigree puppies. And if a breed had puppies listed but no prices, they weren't included.

I never said I'd lie.

Added whippets. I had them on my original doc but I must have missed them when I copied and pasted. Another great pedigree price range.

I'd use the rice and do what Stormie suggests and add some eggs, also if you've got some carrots, zucchini or apples, grate them in too.

It's not about the average price for individual breeds, it's about the average ADVERTISED price for pedigree pups. And just because an older pup has a lower price, it does NOT mean it's from poor quality parents. In fact the opposite is common. The breeder may have run the pup on for a few extra weeks, then decided to place it in a pet home and has reduced the price to attract potential owners to enquire.

Added Shar Pei to the list as a price has now appeared on one of the listings.

We got Dusty just a month before Bensons first birthday and it was brilliant from day one. They get such a lot of pleasure from each others company, and it makes going to work each day a lot easier knowing they probably aren't going to miss me at all. Now they are 3 and 2 and we have just added our third Aussie, a cute little boy and the big dogs just adore him. He's currently too small to be out with them through the day while I'm at work but he's growing so fast it won't be long.

Benson was desexed at 4 1/2 months and started cocking his leg at 10 months. It wasn't learned behaviour, he was the only male dog here and he didn't regularly see other male dogs. He hardly ever squats now, he'd lift his leg on a long blade of grass rather than squat.

Yes it sure can. There was one ad I noticed, I think it was a German Spitz, the puppy came desexed and the purchase price included the cost of desexing. And it was a VERY reasonable price, especially considering it's not a common breed but a very, very attractive one and one that would appeal to a lot of families if they knew about it.

But they are not currently advertising their prices on DOL puppy listings, and that is the whole point of my exercise. Imagine someone looking for a pup to join their family....maybe never had a dog before, or not had one for a while. Doesn't have any idea what dogs cost, no real idea about what breed except that they know they want a good family dog. So they google "pedigree puppies for sale" and the first hit they get is Dogzonline. They look through the puppy ads, and after seeing a few prices, start to form the idea that they CAN afford a pedigree pup. That they aren't as expensive as they thought, and they continue to pursue this angle. They also see some mutt puppies for sale at the local PP outlet and they now know that they can get a purebred, pedigree puppy from a reputable source that costs LESS than the puppy in the window.

I have added the Norwegian Elkhound as a litter was added to the listings today, with an advertised price. And surprisingly a LOT less than I thought they'd be.

I paid $600 for Benson (limited reg) and $500 for Dusty (main reg). My friend recently paid $1000 for a pet quality pup in Vic, and I would say that's about the average price now.

A lot of the dogs on the list are great little (and bigger) family dogs.....breeds that for generations have been touted as ideal family pets. Cocker Spaniels, Labs, Poodles, Cavs....and then the more exotic, rarer breeds like Lagottos, German Spitz....and they (by and large) are NOT expensive. And with that in mind, who wouldn't go for the pedigree pet over the mutt?

No, I'm not interested in the "average" price of a breed, I'm interested in the advertised prices of puppies on DOL. There is one Doberman pup advertised at $800 so he got included. No other ads had prices. I was more interested in the average price of purebred, pedigree puppies......an across the board look, not necessarily individual breeds. I know what Australian Shepherds cost, I own 3 of them, but I didn't include them because there aren't any ads with prices currently on DOL. There were a few weeks ago.....there were some being sold for $800, but they weren't there yesterday so they didn't make the list. Had there been one going very cheap, it would have been incuded, not that I deem to be the average price of the breed.

This topic always generates some serious and interesting debate, especially when comparing the prices of purebred pups to the going rate for mutts (any progeny of mixed marriages, including "designer dogs"). Yesterday I spent some time reading the puppy listings on the DOL home page and made note of advertised prices......and there were quite a lot, across a broad range of breeds. After compiling them, I have to say that on the whole, pedigree dogs are not expensive and there are some absolute bargains to be had, especially in older pups (4-8 months) where the price is often reduced considerably. The average price of a pedigree puppy is nowhere near the recently touted $2000, in fact I'd say it's closer to half that. Other surprising findings....the price of French Bulldog puppies has leapt from $2000 to $3500 in the past two years and the price of blue staffies just keeps getting more ridiculous. It surely can't be because they're rare because they're far from it. Here is my list. Where there's a number in brackets next to the price, it's the number of breeders advertising at that price. I wrote the prices as I found them, so they aren't in numerical order. Akita $1000 pet $1500 show American Cocker Spaniel $300 (older pup, may be reduced price) American Staffordshire Terriers $600.00 Australian Cattle Dog $700.00 Bassett Hound $1,400 Beagle $950.00 Belgian Shepherd $700 Bernese Mountain Dog $1000 (older puppy, may be reduced price, strings attached). Border Collie $800 Boxer $700 British Bulldog $3500 $2000 Bull Terrier $1400 $1200 $1750 Bull Terrier (Miniature) $1200 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel $950 (2) $750 (2) (limit reg) $850 (main reg) $800 (3) $1000 (main reg) Chihuahua $1000 $800 (3) $450 $300 (older pup, reduced price) Cocker Spaniel $900 (2) $500 (2) (older pups, may be reduced price) Dalmatian $900.00 Doberman $800.00 Dogue De Bordeaux $1650 $3000 French Bulldogs $3500 (fawns and pieds) $2000 (brindle) $3500 German Shepherd $950 $1000 $1200 German Spitz (Mittel) $800 (desexing included in price) Great Dane $2000 (pet) $2500 (2) (show) $1000 $1500 (pet) Italian Greyhound $600 Jack Russell Terrier $250.00 (older pup, may be reduced price) Labrador Retriever $900 (2) $800 $1200 (5) (limited reg) $1450 $1400 (2) (main reg) $1000.00 (2) $700 (older pup, may be reduced price) Lagotto Romagnolo $1700 Lhasa Apso $600 Mastiff $1200 Neopolitan Mastiff $3000 $2500 Norwegian Elkhound $1000 $600 (older puppy, may be a reduced price) Pomeranian $2200 (main reg) same pup $1900 (no papers) $800.00 Poodle (Miniature) $1000.00 Poodle (Toy) $1000 (2) $1500 Pug $1200 $1250 $1300.00 (2) Rhodesian Ridgeback $1000 Rottweiler $750 (limited reg) $900 (main reg). Schnauzer (Miniature) $2500 $1500 $950 $800 (missing an ear) $1350 $1300 (2) Shar Pei $600 Staffordshire Bull Terriers (not blue) $600 $1000 (2) $950 $750 $1050 $800 (2) $1200 $650 Staffordshire Bull Terriers (blue) $1000 $1300 (2) $1400 $1500 $1600 $1800 $2000 $2200 $2500 (4) St Bernard $2000 (2) $3000 (pick of litter) Tenterfield Terriers $300 $600 (2) $650 Tibetan Spaniel $500 (older pup, may be reduced price) West Highland White Terrier $1500 $1600 $800 $1350 Whippet $750 (2) $1000 $700 $600

Can't wait to see pics! I love the black bi's, they are absolutely stunning so really looking forward to seeing these two grow up. Are you keeping both of them?