dog prices

I see both sides of the argument, if you got the money and dont wanna train one and put up with a pain in the ass puppy before it shows you anything, pay what you can to find a good dog. If I had the means I'd do the same.

But on my side, I can't afford to drop 2 grand on a good dog so when something happens like happened to us last year (2 dogs killed, one missing) we had to almost start over and have dry run after dry run until our pack of junkyard dogs (basically help dogs) figured it out along with some pups we got that are now turning on, it definately takes some amount of patience, but truely rewarding when you know that you have a pack that you can count on not to embarass you in front of landowners or guests and bring home the bacon, especially when you raised and trained them yourself.

So basically what I'm saying is, as long as there is people willing to pay a lot for a dog, there will be a market for it. If you can't afford to pay those kinds of prices, raise and train dogs yourself, it's frustrating, but fun as hell.