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Originally Posted by martiou07
A family being able to bring a splendid life to my baby but not having the means, for me this is not a problem, I can to re-examine the price, because I think above all of the good future being of my pups...
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We thought the same way some time ago but changed this attitude due to our experiences.
First, what will happen if something happens to the dog like for example a car accident, what about the health tests of the dog etc. These costs a pretty soon above the normal puppy-prices. If I get a non-purebred dog I save money I can spend on those occasions.
Second, if I can´t afford the puppyprice of a pure bred dog of a good breeder why does it have to be a pure bred dog? Of course we all have reasons why we choose a CSW but if we are honest it would be possible to find an adequate dog with the same character if we would try. It might not look the same though but for me the character is much more important. If for someone the wolfish look is that important he anyway is not the kind of owner we want for our dog or for this breed.
Third if I can´t afford something now I will save money to buy it later, looking for a dog I would take the meantime to get more informations about the breed and breeders.
I waited about 8 years till I bought my first dog, not only because of prices but mainly because then I had the possibility to give it a suitable surrounding.
We had one person who tried to discuss the price several times we didn´t give him a puppy though we first told him he could have one and refused it some time later after getting to know him better. Not because of the price-discussion but because of a bad feeling. We have been very right, he turned out to be an egoistic psychopath, unluckily he managed to get several dogs of other breeders, three he gave away till today and he will go on collecting...
We had another buyer who made an extremely good impression for us so we agreed to payment on rates, everything turned out well for the dog in the end but the police was involved in between and I will never agree on something like this again.
So our conclusion is: We will discuss maybe about the money for x-raying the dog that we pay back after doing the x-ray if we know the person and trust him. But if anybody can´t pay our price for the puppy we go on and find another good owner, we don´t mind to keep the pup much longer till we find somebody.
We undergo a lot of work and trouble and we invest a lot of time for our dogs and breeding. The price we ask is the value we give to our dogs and this work and we invest the money back into our dogs. If somebody doesn´t want to pay our price he doesn´t value our dogs and our work enough, he will not get a puppy.
As coming back to the different prices: If Slovakian people are asked to pay 400 Euros and I am asked to pay 1000 Euros this is due to the different income in different countries, the value of the dog stays the same in this case, I might even pay less than the Slovakian in relation.
If a western country asks 2500 this is not due to value of the dog but to the market price. I will not pay this price for a normal dog and we refused to pay this stud fee to a normal French or Italian stud without bonitation and without show results of a specialised judge in the past.
Ina