I have been told today that the working puppies that I have enquired about are £950. That seems very expensive to me, what do you think?

That's very expensive, if you pm me the details, I'll have a look at them for you.

I only had his email and phone number so not really any use! sorry.

when i was looking for a lab i found ones with no papers where £250 and ones with papers were about £500-£600

i ended up with a rescue one though so never seen any littres

Do you know the breeding of the dogs? Their name may be of use, as I may know or may be able to find out more about their dogs.

To be honest, I know top field trialling bred dogs can go for over £1k, but that type of breeder also wouldn't allow their pups to go to pet homes normally.

This is the breeder- The Kennel Club - Assured Breeder

This is the stud dogs breeder (Montys breeder) (under recent puppy news)
Pups & Training

A year and a half ago, when I was on a waiting list for a pup from two top Lab breeders, the price of the pup was £600. These were 'show' type Labs, not working type.

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We just paid £600 for ours... the most expensive i had come across was £650 and that was the woman trying to rip me off.

£950 seems quite steep from all those i had been researching xxx

I've pm'd you

prices of a lab puppy vary from £150 to £700 around here - the £700 being 6-9 month old part trained gun dogs

puppies I would *consider* buying were £400-£500 with the relevent health tests either field or show type

any of the 'cheap' pups I would never buy as the likelyhood of genetic issues causing years of heartache and expensive vets bills is just too high

I'm in a pretty 'cheap' part of UK for gundogs though - lotsa marshland means lotsa labs/spaniels around

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