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Before he died, my dog cost me roughly £100 in tablets for his heart condition every month. His insurance was £60 per month so I saw quite a bit of that back. There were quite a lot of big bills towards the end of his life; 500-700 was common, but Sainsbury's always looked after us and we saw a good chunk returned in quick fashion.
Food was negligible as he was only small. A good quality dry food was only around £50 for a large bag and lasted him 2-3 months. 'Normal' vet bills, again, seemed pretty negligible before his illness took hold.
Groomers cost around £30-£40 every 3 months.
A lot of first-time non-professional "breeders" out there are breeding their already-crossed dogs, with huge risk to the puppies of genetic disorders. They then advertise them for a high price and sell instantly without having them all checked over by a vet first.
Vets can check for a lot of these issues, but it's expensive and takes time, and puppies piss and shit everywhere - right now it's easy to just list them for a couple of grand and sell them in moments, so they don't get checked.
Know who you get one from. Or go to a rescue home.
They also get a cut of around 15-20% from the seller which they invest in a hedge fund.
The same goes for the ones who're advertising designer crossbreeds. They're not designer dogs, they're mongrels - but they're usually mongrels descended from "pedigree" dogs that have resulted from generations of inbreeding. The high prices have nothing to do with the dogs, and everything to do with the marketing that social media influencers are foisting on people.
KC registration is...a total misnomer. If you're not going to be showing the dogs, all it does is say that the dog (and its ancestors) conform to the KC standards, which themselves encourage inbreeding.
I say this as somebody who's owned six dogs, five of which were pedigree rescues and conformed (as expected) to KC standards. The vet bills to correct and manage the very genetic conditions the KC standards require have been fucking massive.
If you want a companion dog that's most likely to live a long, healthy life...go to a rescue and get a true mongrel, and kick every back-yard breeder in the nuts when you see them.
That last bit isn't required, but recommended.
Our current mutt is just the best thing ever. Super lovely, will chase balls till he collapses, defends the house if he had to and never gets nasty. Cool as a cucumber with strangers and other dogs.
The whole ‘breed’ thing stinks IMHO - genetic cesspools.
In addition, I've personally had enough of portmanteau names for dog crosses, describing them as if they were breeds, in order to bestow doubtful attributes upon them
CockerPoo, Labradoodle, Chihuadane etc. * insert your own own favourite/most annoying made up name here.
They are all mongrels & mongrels are bloody brilliant, but concentrating the gene pool of such limited crosses is another very bad idea.
For those in any doubt about the detriment of bad breeding & inbreeding (pedigrees) versus random crossing, go look up 'Heterosis' & "hybrid vigour'
You might be able to persuade them, if they'll let you take your dogs a few times over a few weeks to introduce them safely to the prospective new family member.
according to his KC family tree and pedigree “Frank” is a french bulldog!!!!!
Same here. I wouldn't look anywhere else - you get the chance to give a dog that needs rehoming a loving home, and you free up a space for another poor mutt that's been discarded. Many, sadly, will be dogs that have been bought in this lockdown period. As you say, each to their own, of course.
My sister-in-law, whose the bad one of her siblings, is a back yard breeder and seems to have a litter of chav dogs every year, which seems to sell very quickly.
I'm amazed how much she gets for them, sadly there is steady demand from people who knowingly pay a price under the KC / pro-breeder rate to get a staffie, and turn a blind eye to its background and where its come from as it's a 'must have' fashion accessory.