AUTHOR: Valeria Rossi
"Thousand Euros for a puppy? But it is a robbery!"
Who has not heard this phrase (or who has never said / thought at first) cast the first stone.
Yet when it comes to quality puppies, these figures should not to shock anyone.
The fact is that normal people do not actually know what "you pay" in a puppy, or what are the real costs A farmer has to bear.
Here is an initial list of factors that make up the price of the puppy who was interested in focusing on the specific costs can be found here.
1 - YOU PAY THE SELECTION.
Test the character of the players and especially their health by carrying out X-rays for the control of hip dysplasia and other surveys (such as eye exams) to ensure they are free from hereditary diseases has a cost. Click
exposures (perhaps worldwide) to submit its opinion to the breeding of experts have a (high) cost.
2 - YOU PAY A PART OF "REDEMPTION"
for expenses incurred to raise a litter DOC, which are not few and include:
a) medical expenses to monitor the dam during pregnancy, for any action if cesarean delivery does not occur naturally, to recheck the bitch and puppies in the days after birth;
b) the cost of feed from weaning high quality for the puppies, feed costs for the following specific "puppy" (always high quality), expenditure on vaccinations, worming, tattoo.
These maintenance costs are incurred by the farmer up to two and a half months or three months, because the good farmer, who wants to give you a puppy DOC, it hardly will sell before this date: either because the puppy fino a questa età ha ancora bisogno "psicologico" di vivere con madre e fratelli - imparerà le basi della socializzazione, cosa che ci risparmierà possibili problemi di carattere in futuro - sia perché alcuni difetti non sono assolutamente riscontrabili in un cucciolo più giovane.
c) spese relative all'iscrizione dei cuccioli ai libri genealogici.
3 - SI PAGA L'EFFETTIVA BELLEZZA
(anche se sarebbe più corretto dire la "promessa" di effettiva bellezza) del cucciolo.
Un allevamento serio non vi venderà mai a prezzo intero un cucciolo con dentatura imperfetta, o che porta male la coda: ma produrlo, allevarlo e mantenerlo gli è costato tanto come gli others.
Therefore, in general, the expenditure for the puppy that you will support includes DOC (partly) also the risk of "breeding", which is an imperfect puppies breeder can not and will not sell (the awnings yes!), But that usually gives in custody without charge or with a steep discount.
Here are the reasons why the breeder, conscientious, making selection and gives certain guarantees can never keep the same prices as those who produce puppies "in case", let alone someone who buys and sells dogs from very low base price, as the puppies that come from "canifici" East.
ACCOUNTS FOR EURO EURO start from the fact that I have three dogs in age from Reproduction: Although usually a farmer has not only three dogs, because there are also young people (who do not bring any economic benefit) and especially the "retired", or old men who do not play anymore.
What do you do with it? Throw them in the middle of a street?
I do not think so, because I am a breeder who loves their dogs.
So I keep them, and they eat just like the others (and cost me more than others in veterinary fees, because some old men acciacchino have it forever.)
However, to simplify things let's say that I only have three dogs, breeding, and knocked out two figures:
1 - the dogs I have rained down from heaven: I've bought. The price of an adult dog starts from 1500 euro ... and get to the stars. If I had bought puppies I would have paid about € 1000 each, but they would also maintain due for at least two years, and spending more or less equivalent.
2 - certainly not use a dog playing until they've made the plates for the control of dysplasia and other genetic diseases. The checks vary from breed to breed, but we say that an average of two controls (hip and elbow dysplasia, or dysplasia and eye disease, or dysplasia and ultrasound). Minimum is 500 euro per dog.
3 - the dogs eat, right? Let's say you use a feed from 25 euro per bag? (Not true, what they actually use costs $ 50, but say they are a breeder a little 'less fixed and that they use a cheaper one). A lot of fifteen pounds, three dogs with me for twenty days. They are about 450 € a year.
4 - My three dogs have a little problem of health at least a year (maybe it was just one!)? Three
veterinary visits, even with a doctor who works almost at cost, are 150 € a year.
5 - The vaccines we want them to him, yes? 75 euro each year.
6 - heartworm prevention do it? And the sleeve to prevent the bites of sandflies, against leishmaniasis, we want to put him? Collars 45 €, 60 € antifilaria Prevention (every year).
7 - that my dogs are beautiful and typical, and that will be able to play beautiful puppies and typical, I can not tell and just: do I have to prove.
So bring them on display.
If you are just "pulled" I will shoot only in Italy, but if I want to show the value of my dogs go abroad. Then from 25 to 50 euro for each application, cost of travel, accommodation and lost time ... and so can not be quantified. Smarronando, much less quantify.
8 - if my race is tested to work, put the dog in working class (the only one where I can have the CAC) must take at least a CAL. If you want to do an Italian championship and, in many races, I serves at least one patent work (I need three more).
I give only a general idea: making a first patent costs around € 1500 (obviously a dog).
9 - My dogs are my friends, not "objects" from which to squeeze out puppies. So we also
account (since I buy them to him) games, camp beds, coats (if the race needs it), Ossett, tricks and so on. Does not quantify because there is too much elasticity, but these things cost.
am a breeder just cold and cynical, and I do not buy even a play with my dogs?
Be ', at least two bowls each want to give them to him, or think you're rushing food and water on the floor?
A bowl stainless steel costs about 15 €. Multiply by six.
plastic ones are cheaper? Sure, but every two months, I have to buy back all six because the dogs have bitten ... so never mind, it is better.
And now ... voila, we are ready to breed dogs. My dogs, if only three are of course three females that I would a male in a herd so small?
So:
10 - to smear a bitch want to do it, just to know when the right day and not make a trip to empty? 25 €
11 - quantifichiamolo the journey, because I can be lucky enough to find a male as I walking away from home ... but more often (and in certain races is the norm) I andarmelo to look abroad. We also lose at least a day, sometimes two.
12 - I have to pay to get on me: a male that is not titled and famous for covering the beautiful eyes of my dog. Minimum 800 €.
13 - will my Cagnina pregnant? Ultrasound, 60 €.
14 - who will have puppies? I need to know to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe reservations that I can take. Radiography, 50 €.
15 - a pregnant female, at least the second month, not to eat peanuts from the same trinkets that I decided to give to others. At least in this period (and for another two months of lactation) step a un mangime da 50 euro al sacco: e poi aggiungiamo integratori, vitamine, calcio ecc.
16 - arriviamo al momento del parto: tu ti fideresti a lasciar fare tutto alla cagna? Io no.
Presenza del veterinario in allevamento, minimo 40 euro. In alcune razze il cesareo è la norma, in altre no, ma può sempre capitare che qualcosa vada storto e che vi si debba ricorrere. Se capita, almeno 200 euro (sempre con il nostro veterinario che lavora sottocosto, eh?)
17 - Evviva, sono nati 5 cuccioli! Ora bisogna:
a) sverminarli almeno tre volte, circa 40 euro
b) vaccinarli, 25 euro x cinque
c) iscriverli all'ENCI, cca 80 euro
d) tatuarli e/o microchipparli, cca 250 euro
Meanwhile the mother I do oxytocin postpartum and begin to integrate its power over what was pregnant, breast-feeding because the "consume" a lot more.
18 - Towards the 30-35 days I will have to begin to help the mother, giving the baby milk powder, then the first baby food, baby food and weaning.
A box of powdered milk (a feed) costs 2 €. You know how many times they will eat these puppies before being delivered to new owners? Do not make me do the bill, I feel bad.
19 - it's summer, do you? Alas, there are fleas and ticks. Protection for everyone, including mom (and including the other two dogs, poor): 150 € for each summer month.
20 - his mother (who has since been wormed, has continued to eat food high protein and highly expensive, and has taken all his good supplements), has a little problem: the milk does not go away. Here I am fainting with bad Galastop which costs 23 € to 15 ml Botticino (I must give a 10 ml per kg per day of dog: he thinks that's great, if I raise Great Danes or mastiffs neapolitan).
21 - in the meantime, the puppies are weaned and eat like locusts (puppy food, the most expensive in the world, superproteico, but we want them to grow well, yes or no?).
I have already a line of customers waiting at the door?
Well, I'll keep them for only two months (if delivered before them would not be a serious breeder).
I do not have the queue at the door?
So it can happen that one or more puppies I remain in the herd up to four, five months ... or maybe for life, because it is not written anywhere that I find someone willing to adopt an older dog already.
And this is what happens if the whole row or nearly smooth (the "all-everything" smooth is so rare that I do not even seem to consider the case). But
can go wrong A LOT more stuff than I have described.
example of what wrong-but-not-too: an outbreak of coccidiosis. One tablet of specific medicine every 4 to 5 kg of puppy cuccioli, tutti i giorni. La scatola costa 10 euro e dura due giorni.
Esempio di cosa più storta ancora: due di questi 5 cuccioli sono maschi, ma a uno dei due non scende un testicolo. Devo cederlo in cambio delle sole spese sostenute, perché un allevatore serio non vende cani monorchidi.
Ma il dramma è che adesso so di avere almeno un riproduttore che porta criptorchidismo: cercherò di stabilire se si tratta del padre o della madre, e una volta identificatolo dovrò toglierlo dalla riproduzione.
Se è la femmina, ovvero la mia cagna, ovviamente me la tengo: è mia e le voglio bene. Quindi passerà il resto della sua vita a giocare, dormire….e mangiare, senza più fruttarmi un euro.
Esempio what stortissima: all the puppies die.
can happen, you know? Just a viral infection against which it is almost impossible to defend.
conclusion ... you say, are really so many of € 1000 for a puppy?
