If you bought your dog as a puppy how much did you pay?

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If you bought your dog when it was a puppy, how much did you pay, what breed is your dog and what year was this?

We’ve been wanting a dog for a long time now but had to wait years for us to have better jobs and a bigger house etc.
We are almost ready to add a lovely dog to our family but WOW the prices are really high.
People tel me this is due to lockdown or the time of year.
So I just wanted to gauge the prices of puppies in recent years.

Also on another note seeing how high they are makes me sad that people will take advantage of the amount of money to be made (example labradors in my part of the UK are £3,000, the average lab has 8 puppies- that’s £24k!)

Beagle £500 3 years ago. Bloody hard work!

2 years ago, £80, rescue - no idea what, but he is big and black and we love him.

He was a puppy and the rescue was full so needed him homed ASAP.

Cocker spaniel, Dec 2017 (we collected him 3 years ago today - a video of his came up on my Facebook feed this morning). £750 or £800 iirc.

2008 labrador £600

Manchester Terrier, £750, 2001.

Definitely @Roo1000 gorgeous Dogs but hard work!

Bloody hell. Our last dog, admittedly 2006 was £600, KC, golden retriever.

I know they are c 3k now.

Thank you for all the responses so far, good to know.

And also to those who have given links to other rejoining sites I will definitely look through all of those.

2011 lab KC reg £200 was the last one and they were struggling to sell him. He is a dopey fella. My other one they were desperate to get rid because they cross bred and he didn’t look like a pure bred staff, so got him off a doorstep - a rescue!

Labs from trialing stock on full papers but only for sale to working homes:
2019 we paid £350
2020 we paid £500 which was steep but we particularly wanted one from that bitch and got pick of the litter.

Neither litter were for sale to pet homes.

£150- 2009 jackrussel X
£600- 2012 Alaskan malamute X

Both worth every penny but some of the prices now even for mutts like mine

£850 in 2018 Dalmatian

KC registered golden retriever, October this year, £1800

£1,500 in 2018 for a KC-registered Newfoundland.

Jack Russell Shih tzu cross, 8 years ago, £250. Whoever said money can't buy you love obviously never bought a dog.

Mixed breed terrier 5 years ago £250

Cockapoo £800 in 2011, working Cocker spaniel £600 ( although that may have been mates rates ) in 2017.

Golden Retriever 9yrs ago £650

£600 in 2006 for my beloved pedigree CKCS who sadly passed away earlier this year.

Working cocker spaniel, chipped and relevent vet checks/papers, female, 2016- £500.

I paid £1500 for a collie x in sept. Couldn't rescue for various reasons. I love him to bits

Red cockapoo (ginger) was the rare colour then 😂£850 beginning 2014 (Grimsby)
KC ref working Slovakian rough haired pointer sep 2017 £1000 (Lincolnshire)

Pedigree whippet in Feb for 650.

Cockapoo (I know Mumsnet, I know) in March this year, £600. Health checked parents with papers. We were on the list for her before the whole lockdown/covid thing though.

Please don’t buy from pets4home, there are known scam artists on here, people stealing images of puppies then conning to get a deposit, or puppy farmers, pretending to be normal family homes, or people who have stolen dogs, avoid them please.

Our last dog has passed away he was a chocolate lab we paid approx 1k eight years ago for.