02/12/2025
It makes me sad to see breeders focused more on money than finding perfect homes.
At the end of the day, on the rare occasions I have puppies, my ONLY priority is to get them into perfect homes, preferably sport homes, but if not that, then farm or active pet homes.
So while other breeders are fussing about "don't low ball me", I'm going to say this: If you are a great sport home and I have puppies available and you can't afford one PLEASE LOW BALL ME.
Send me a message. The worst I can do is say no! I myself have had the PERFECT puppy come up at a time when I was strapped and thankfully was able to grab a loan from my credit union to make it happen. I'm a long way from wealthy and all my extra money goes into my dogs (entry fees and training usually). I don't keep a lot of cash in my bank and I'm not going to judge you!
The next time I have pups, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't avoid contacting me because you're a little short on cash.
I'd much rather have my dog in a middle class sport home where money is a little tight than to sit on that puppy just hoping someone comes along to put cash in my pocket and end up having to sell a good sport prospect to a pet home. I've never met ANY dog sport people who weren't broke all the time.
Heck, I'd GIVE a puppy away for free to a good sport home if I needed to.
Long term, the investment of good PR and my dogs doing well in the ring is worth way more than a little short term cash.
My dogs are a hobby, not a business. The money I spend on health testing and titling is the "price" I pay for my keeper puppy. If I get any cash AT ALL for the "extra" pups produced, that's gravy but it's not why I'm breeding.
I breed for ME, to produce a good dog for me to enjoy. It's never, ever about making back what I put into it. That's just the cost of enjoying my hobby and I don't expect puppy buyers to finance my hobby or my ability to produce my next sport dog.
All in all, I've probably got 20k put into producing my last litter once you count all the training and entry fees and Nessie would have been worth every penny, even if she'd been a singleton.
I saw the Puppy Culture founder (Jane Lindquist) say that she doesn't charge ANYTHING for her puppies. Not a penny. They go to hand picked homes that she chooses for her pups. When she was charging more for them, she said she got a terrible group of owners who didn't want to work with her or share her ideals and it was worth losing the money to get better puppy buyers. That's something that really makes me think!
Edited to add: I would also work with amazing pet homes on an older pup if it came up, but please understand my first priority is getting my pups into sport homes since that's what they're bred for and where I feel they'll thrive best.
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