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Originally Posted by howdy20012002

If your true breeders don't do it for the money why aren't they giving their puppies away???
lets be honest, unless it was a mistake, ultimately everyone breeds for money..or in some cases the prestige i guess they feel they get from the dog shows.
Which off course, if they do well at, the puppies they sell will be worth all the more.

a lot of them do, it they have a puppy that they determin is extreamly hopfull they will make an arangment for a shared ownership which cost you nothing but they have the right to breed the dog at a later date.

a lot of them is prestege.. I was thinking of showing my dog just for bragging rights till I found out ho much it costs.. yes the top kennels are doing it for both the money and prestege, but realy there isn't much money. I worked it out after vet costs, food, time spent stud fees and such my breeder actualy lost money as there were only two pups in the litter. to break even he needed 5. why does he do it.. he loves goldens, he has some good dogs and likes the prestege of it all. as for my self when I looked into the price of showing I choked.. you will spend about 1000 / month for 2 or 3 shows and most likely won't win anything, if you get a profesional handler you have a way better chance of winning but they can double the price. if you want to go all the way and try for westminster, you pretty much need to campain your dog and people spend upwords of 100000.00 to do that. so not a poormans game.

and after thinking about it what point is there unless I am going to breed my doggie which I am not as there is to much liability on the stud dog in a regestered breeding.

I am not against breeding dogs, while I wouldn't buy a BYB dog as I would rather rescue a mutt than buy one, I am ok with it as long as the breeder is being responcible, providing the best care available, and is honest about it.

Steve