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Offline Jeanette

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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #30 on: February 03, 2010, 07:21:02 PM »
Quote from: kpar on February 03, 2010, 07:10:35 PM
Hello. My little nell cost me 400 just before christmas. She should have been 500, but we had just had an awful experience with a seller in berkshire and i think nells breeder felt a little sorry for us and wouldnt accept the 500 price (which was amazingly kind of her). A lovely breeder in the next village to us sells her cockers for 350 and they are truly beautiful dogs (we see a few from her around here). When i was looking for nell i was amazed and confused by the price difference. I noticed that dogs down soiuth where far more expensive than in the north west??
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #31 on: February 03, 2010, 07:23:53 PM »
Jay was £550 in May 2009, but I have been having sneaky looks in the ads and the going rate seems to be about £700.  ph34r
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #32 on: February 03, 2010, 08:30:25 PM »
Ellie was £450 in November 2004, she came from Lincolnshire.

My first cocker cost £25 in 1971.
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #33 on: February 03, 2010, 08:48:14 PM »
Jenny was £320 12 years ago £20 more because a female and Penny £650 health tested Both show type.I know Pennys parents and they are so friendly and loving and Penny is also .
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #34 on: February 03, 2010, 10:51:04 PM »
I got both Luis and Ollie from the same breeder in Lincolnshire.  They were £750 each.  Luis is 15 months, and Ollie is 11 months.
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #35 on: February 03, 2010, 11:40:10 PM »
Benson cost £500 from a breeder in the NW and has a good working pedigree.He has an excellent temperament,as mad as a hatter but as good as gold :luv: :luv:.It was the best £500 I have ever spent :D
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #36 on: April 13, 2010, 01:14:50 PM »
(thanks to livercake for showing me where this thread was - I was about to start a new one!)

We paid £450 for our Cavalier nearly 11 years ago, so, when starting our search for a Cocker puppy I was expecting a well-bred health-tested dog to be a bit more money.

The first breeder we spoke to was wanting £650. I wasn't too shocked. I then approached another breeder who'd had a year old pup returned to her and *was* shocked to find the price was £800 (apparently the same price as he'd been as a pup). That's too high for us. (We're on a low income since my husband's redundancy - teaching and painting pictures for people is a great job, but doesn't make big bucks!) We want to be able to afford vaccinations and insurance and crates and anything else the dog needs, and, for us, that's just too much. And of course there is also the cost of fuel if you're having to travel a distance to both visit and then later pick up your pup.

Enquired with another breeder this morning, and they said £600. That seems better to me. We're registering with Rescues as well, just to see what might come up.
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #37 on: April 13, 2010, 01:28:41 PM »
Prices do seem to vary - Misha & Roly were about £500, and when I last looked they were looking for £750 for a puppy.  A whoppinng £250 increase in less than 3 years.

I always joke that the dogs are the most valuable things that I have - they truly are :luv: :luv:
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #38 on: April 13, 2010, 01:29:44 PM »
Hi there
My little nell cost £450 at christmas, she is mix working and show and is beautiful. Our breeder friend sells her mix worker/shows for £375 as she says she is appaulled at the huge prices charged by some. We are in the north!!
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #39 on: April 13, 2010, 02:02:21 PM »
Odie was £650 from a breeder in Lincolnshire in Feb this year, he is a show type cocker.  Was expecting to pay around £550-700 when we were looking into getting a cocker so it wasn't such a big shock!  Lesley
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #40 on: April 13, 2010, 02:09:26 PM »
No wonder puppy farmers and BYB are churning them out!  ::)  It really makes me quite sad, though personally I will never buy a puppy anyway, when the cost of a puppy is more than an OAP gets a month to live on for State Pension!

There was a day when breeders only bred puppies to replace retiring stock so they would have something to exhibit in the showring; the excess puppies from the litter were sold, exchanged for new bloodlines or given away to friends, fellow exhibitors and to good pet homes.

It was more about breeding the best you could and less about filling the needs of the great British public.
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #41 on: April 13, 2010, 02:42:30 PM »
The prices differ so much don't they?

We paid £750 each for Ollie and Luis a year ago. 

It is the cost after having them that has been astonomical, and they both came to us suffering from a dreadful virus...............

Still, they are both well now, and I wouldn't be without either of them.
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #42 on: April 13, 2010, 08:16:08 PM »
Quote from: maggieann on February 03, 2010, 01:13:36 PM
Our first cocker (years and years ago :005:) from a good breeder was £40 - that's inflation for you.



My first one was £25 in 1971.
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #43 on: April 13, 2010, 09:55:43 PM »
I've just seen a cocker spaniel advertised for £2000  :o :o :o
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Re: Cost of a cocker puppy
« Reply #44 on: April 13, 2010, 10:05:52 PM »
Quote from: Jeanette on April 13, 2010, 09:55:43 PM
I've just seen a cocker spaniel advertised for £2000  :o :o :o

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