When you see puppies for $350, you need to find out a lot of things.
Novice people advertise and sell their puppies only by color, sex and/or size.
Color is not the reason for the difference in price, it is the properly planned
combination of bloodlines, the individual dog's ability and the body style of
the pups with balanced trustworthy temperaments that determines the total price.
What is the heritage breeding lines? Even though you are not going to show, this
is important so that you get a mentally balanced sound dog and a physically
correctly structured dog. Some of the questions to find out about the puppy or
dog you are about to purchase: American or European? conformation or working
style? Titled or champion conformation parents? Are the parents certified? DNA?
Hips? Temperament tested?
All these things take money and time and after awhile you will see that you need
to change the price on the puppies if you are going to do all of this the right
way. The cheapest that I know of for a trainer/handler to take a dog to level
one is at least $1,500 if not closer to $2,500. Then to get the x-rays and
certifications for hips including the micro-chipping is about $280. Then the DNA
is another $40, then the other testing for diseases including CB and VC is at
least another $100, and the list goes on and on if you are going to do the
breeding in the proper manner.
After awhile you can begin to see why there is such a price difference in the
dogs. In fact just the shipping on the airplane from Germany to USA of one of
the parent dogs is $550, besides having to pay $4,000 to $6,000 for each of the
parents. It starts to be a very large investment but for those who want more
than just another puppy but want to choose the puppy instead of having one just
shipped to them from Europe, then you import the proper dogs and produce the
offspring here in the United States.
We try to have enough variety for all families to be satisfied, from great
family pets to schutzhund titled protection dogs including true conformation
showing, but do not want to compromise the integrity of the breed. Just like
anything else, there are certain brands, or in dogs, a certain bloodline which
is more desirable than another but may be harder to acquire in the USA, thus,
these pups or dogs are more expensive. Understand particular bloodlines
are more in demand because it is a known fact as to what those bloodlines
produce concerning the various aspects of the makeup of the German Shepherd Dog.
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