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Chocolate Lab Breeders-price difference

  • So my wife and I are going to each buy a chocolate lab from a breeder. She has picked out a place in PA that sells them for $2500. The place I picked out mine from sells theirs for $800. Here is the ad from the local breeder

    Here at Shady Lane Labradors we strive to produce quality, healthy labs with excellent bloodlines. We produce yellow, chocolate, and black English Labrador Retriever puppies. Our labs are registered through the American Kennel Club. We certify our labs hips and elbows through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. We have a great passion for the breed. We have been raising labs since 1999. We are extremely proud of our labs excellent bloodlines, full of champions. In every litter that we produce we make sure that the sire and dam have great temperaments.

    I have checked their website and they offer license #'s, and are openly honest about the mom/dad's hip problems. The parents litter I am choosing from say "excellent" hips. Yes, I know it's still a lab but being that another parents litter has "good", I know they're probably no sugar coating things.

    We currently have a golden and a chocolate lab, both12 years old.

    I can't see the $1800 difference plus the drive time (12 hours each way) to warrant getting a lab from PA. We're not going to show or breed the dog.

    I told my wife I'd let her pick her on dog from wherever she wants and that is the place she chose so if that's what she decides, that's her choice. $2000 is a lot of extra money to spend on a dog and she is starting to have 2nd thoughts. I'd love to persuade her with some real facts, info.

    Any dog experts out there that can chime in?

    DavidsonNCCock ●

  • DavidsonNCCock said...

    So my wife and I are going to each buy a chocolate lab from a breeder. She has picked out a place in PA that sells them for $2500. The place I picked out mine from sells theirs for $800. Here is the ad from the local breeder

    Here at Shady Lane Labradors we strive to produce quality, healthy labs with excellent bloodlines. We produce yellow, chocolate, and black English Labrador Retriever puppies. Our labs are registered through the American Kennel Club. We certify our labs hips and elbows through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. We have a great passion for the breed. We have been raising labs since 1999. We are extremely proud of our labs excellent bloodlines, full of champions. In every litter that we produce we make sure that the sire and dam have great temperaments.

    I have checked their website and they offer license #'s, and are openly honest about the mom/dad's hip problems. The parents litter I am choosing from say "excellent" hips. Yes, I know it's still a lab but being that another parents litter has "good", I know they're probably no sugar coating things.

    We currently have a golden and a chocolate lab, both12 years old.

    I can't see the $1800 difference plus the drive time (12 hours each way) to warrant getting a lab from PA. We're not going to show or breed the dog.

    I told my wife I'd let her pick her on dog from wherever she wants and that is the place she chose so if that's what she decides, that's her choice. $2000 is a lot of extra money to spend on a dog and she is starting to have 2nd thoughts. I'd love to persuade her with some real facts, info.

    Any dog experts out there that can chime in?

    holy s-werd.

    don't buy a dog from either as a companion.

    bloodlines mean nothing as a companion

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  • 2500 is a rediculous price for a dog you dont even intend to show. You could find lab or lab/mix puppies in shelters pretty easily as well. But some people want to know the dogs background and I get that. 800 seems a little high but reasonable if its a good breeder.

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  • That's alot of dogs.

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    El Guapo ●

  • Get a rescue.

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  • DavidsonNCCock said...

    Here at Shady Lane Labradors we strive to produce quality, healthy labs with excellent bloodlines. We produce yellow, chocolate, and black English Labrador Retriever puppies. Our labs are registered through the American Kennel Club. We certify our labs hips and elbows through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. We have a great passion for the breed. We have been raising labs since 1999. We are extremely proud of our labs excellent bloodlines, full of champions. In every litter that we produce we make sure that the sire and dam have great temperaments.

    Think you've got your answer.

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    mpcoan

  • mpcoan said...

    Think you've got your answer.

    just because they don't have "chocolate labradors" in their business name, doesn't mean they're not good breeders of the specific lab we're looking for.

    This post was edited by DavidsonNCCock on 4/7/2012 at 2:01 PM

    DavidsonNCCock ●

  • DavidsonNCCock said...

    just because they don't have "chocolate labradors" in their business name, doesn't mean they're not good breeders of the specific lab we're looking for.

    I was just saying that it's called Shady Lane. That's why it's a lot cheaper.

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    mpcoan

  • mpcoan said...

    I was just saying that it's called Shady Lane. That's why it's a lot cheaper.

    i know, i was joking

    duh

    DavidsonNCCock ●

  • Wait, am I reading this right? Are they trying to sell labs for $2500?

    My god, I got a stud gold lab back in 2001 for $350. Good, healthy dog that has been my best friend for the last decade. Even $800 is WAY too much. These dogs plated with actual gold, or what? Yes, he was registered with papers and whole 9 yards.

    Either find a local breeder that will give you a fair price on a puppy, or rescue a dog.

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  • MarineMountie said...

    Wait, am I reading this right? Are they trying to sell labs for $2500?

    My god, I got a stud gold lab back in 2001 for $350. Good, healthy dog that has been my best friend for the last decade. Even $800 is WAY too much. These dogs plated with actual gold, or what? Yes, he was registered with papers and whole 9 yards.

    Either find a local breeder that will give you a fair price on a puppy, or rescue a dog.

    This

    That is an absurd amount of money for a lab. I've seen dogs like Mastiffs and English Bulldogs go for that much but even an EXCELLENT bloodline shouldn't cost you anywhere near that much for a lab.

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  • DavidsonNCCock said...

    So my wife and I are going to each buy a chocolate lab from a breeder. She has picked out a place in PA that sells them for $2500. The place I picked out mine from sells theirs for $800. Here is the ad from the local breeder

    Here at Shady Lane Labradors we strive to produce quality, healthy labs with excellent bloodlines. We produce yellow, chocolate, and black English Labrador Retriever puppies. Our labs are registered through the American Kennel Club. We certify our labs hips and elbows through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. We have a great passion for the breed. We have been raising labs since 1999. We are extremely proud of our labs excellent bloodlines, full of champions. In every litter that we produce we make sure that the sire and dam have great temperaments.

    I have checked their website and they offer license #'s, and are openly honest about the mom/dad's hip problems. The parents litter I am choosing from say "excellent" hips. Yes, I know it's still a lab but being that another parents litter has "good", I know they're probably no sugar coating things.

    We currently have a golden and a chocolate lab, both12 years old.

    I can't see the $1800 difference plus the drive time (12 hours each way) to warrant getting a lab from PA. We're not going to show or breed the dog.

    I told my wife I'd let her pick her on dog from wherever she wants and that is the place she chose so if that's what she decides, that's her choice. $2000 is a lot of extra money to spend on a dog and she is starting to have 2nd thoughts. I'd love to persuade her with some real facts, info.

    Any dog experts out there that can chime in?

    Why don't you just let someone come kick you in the junk and take your $2500. It would be easier than driving all the way to Shady Breeders R US.

    IDWIW ●

  • Bullshit it does. Good bloodlines = good dog. Period.

    JRPosey

  • JRPosey said...

    Bullshit it does. Good bloodlines = good dog. Period.

    Been breeding dogs damn near all my life and completely agree. I don't think that is the argument that anyone is making. We are saying that even the best bloodline of Lab shouldn't cost you $2,500. I have seen straight championship bloodline through and through labs, with papers, pedigree and everything, go for $600-$800 max. It's not a question of the bloodline more than it is the type of dog that it is. Labs are great dogs but a ton of people have them and the market just doesn't request that much.

    If he would have said it was a Neopolitan Mastiff, Old English Bulldog, Chinese Shar-Pei and a few other breeds that always ask for crazy money the argument would make sense. $2,500 for a lab it WAY more than I've ever seen anyone ask.

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