Australian Kelpie

03/06/2023

05/04/2022

🐶 🐶🐶🐶🐶WELCOME TO AUSTRALIAN KELPIE 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

🐶🐾The Kelpie puppies from our kennel should be booked quickly because we always have a lot of requests. We do not have the same prices as those charged in kennels or dog fairs…. we invite you to read this page entirely.🐾🐾
🐶We also advise our clients on how to take good care of their puppies, please bring your worries to us.. We CARE 😊
🐶. If you want a puppy and wonder why they cost so much...... read this. Sums it up perfectly!
🐶🐶Not everyone is in it to get rich no, but if you had ever bred dogs you'd know it is impossible to both breed RESPONSIBLY and have a full time job. A person can't watch a litter of puppies around the clock, not leaving their sides, for 2 weeks straight, for the first 2 weeks of their life... Or spend the last 4 weeks watching the pups every move to immediately scoop up p**p and direct them to pottying where they should for 18+ hours a day to make sure they don't step in or play in it.
And not to even mention the 30 minutes a day working with each puppy on curriculum... That alone is 4 hours if you have a litter of 8 pups.

Lets say they have 6 pups and sell them for $3000 each. That is $18,000... But the stud fee will be the cost of a pup so now you're down to $15,000...

The OFA/PennHIP and genetics tests run $1200+ in total... The whelping box will run about $500, the pen about $300... The supplies easily another $1000... Then there is the progesterone testing to time the breeding which is about $100 a visit, and you need to do it 3x, the AI costs x 2 @$200 ea.. Then there are the ultrasounds at 4 weeks $250, xrays to count pups which run about $250... The vet visit once pups a have been born $100... The $100+ per pup visit for shots and fecals ($800 for 😎
And if you potty train to sod $75 a week... For 6 weeks because you begin stimulating them over it at 2 weeks. $450
The $200 in toys and activity equipment.. The $600+ in dog food...
The $200 per pup for go-home gift bags. The $198 for registering the litter with ANKC
The $60 for microchips if you use the cheapest company available to do so...
Plus the $200 in curriculm

I am sure I forgot something... But we will stick with that...

That comes to $8485..
So that comes to $6515 in what you consider profit... But you can only breed that dog once a year. So it's like teaching, you make that money during the months you work but you stretch it across several months... Lets say you have 2 dogs you breed... One in the fall and one in the Spring... You make a total of $13,030 a year in "profit"

Or if you really want to get technical and say that $6515 is just for 2 months of work (though there isn't an employer anywhere that is going to let you take off 2 months every year). Yes that comes to just over $3k a month... But that isnt a 9-5 job. That first 2 weeks you get 2 hours of sleep at a time, maybe 3 times a night. You can't go to the store, you can't go to doctor appts... You can't evem leave the mom's side unless you call her out of the room or else she might step on or lay on a pup and kill it. Every squawk wakes you up. - and guess what, those early days are the easy days. They are the days when the pups are getting covered in mush or p**p... When they aren't chewing everything in the world... When you arent trying to crate train or potty train them... You are spending 12-18 hours a day, the entire 2 months, with the puppies. And most of that time you have p**p or p*e on you.
Let's round that 11-18 hours out to 14 hours a day... 14 hours a day for 56 days... =784 hours... That comes to just over $8 an hour.

That doesn't take into consideration the cost of your dogs when you bought them or the cost of raising them either... Nor the cost of c-sections or the risk of your dog dying during birth from eclampsia... Most breeders don't make a dime til their 2nd or 3rd litter if they are lucky and don't have miscarriages, c-sections or a multitude of other things that can go wrong once they calculate all of the actual costs.

No one is getting rich if they are breeding dogs CORRECTLY... And the only people who can afford to sell pups for cheap are those who are either doing it incorrectly or are already wealthy and don't mind losing money.

Let's say your breeder had 8 pups and sold all for $1300...
Thats $10400
Minus expenses (if they breed right) comes to $1915... That is $2.40 an hour

Loving dogs is one thing but I challenge you to have 1 litter, do it right and then tell me if you ever want to do it again... If any amount of money would ever be worth it. Most people don't realize how hard it is, how their entire life revolves around those pups and they have no time for anything else... And then people want them to practically give away the pups.