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I feel I must respond to all the negative posts on this website concerning the price of "Blue" Staffordshire Bull terriers, all the people that have said that selling of a top pedigree (18 champs passed on in my case) staffy "blue" for its correct market value of £1000 is in some way not right, this is very confusing to me. There are loads of reasons why the price is that high and not just a financial one !!
I would ask this question , If you owned a house and its market value was £500,000 . Would you sell it for £250,000 ? would you ?
Of cause you would'nt !!
You would be an idiot to do that or mentally challenged.
So, please, to all those moral do gooders, I would say if you don't want to buy a blue staff for £1000 you don't have to (because we live in a free society and you don't have to do anything you don't want to do) and also, you don't have to make breeders out like me to be in some way like a modern day scrooge.
I don't have a factory somewhere in the middle of nowhere churning out low grade puppies, 10 to the dozen, treating them badly and just doing it for the money, and I resent that a few stupid people on this website have tried to portray me in this way.
I am paying a very high stud fee,then there is my time to consider, then add to that, rearing the pups,feeding the pups, medical bills, the high price I paid for my bitch in the first instance, etc,etc.
I do it, because I'm a dog lover and I want to breed the best dogs I can. So people I sell my puppies too can show the dogs my bitch produces. Who knows? there maybe a possible best in breed at future competitions, which would make me very very proud.
Its a lifetime hobby for me and not a money making exercise.
Let me educated the cynics out there, everything in a capalist society (which we all live in) has a price (a market value) including puppies, just because they are living animals does'nt change a thing.
we do not live in a communist or dictational state, A nice loaf of bread costs £1.30, a mars bar cost 50p, a Bulldog puppy upto £2000, a new tv £500, and a rare blue staffy with a fantastic lined pedigree costs £1000 and if you don't like it, well excuse me, but thats just tough !!!
How dare you ? My dog is my life, and for the most part the price is to get my puppies into homes of people that really want to have that dog in there home, I know that if someone pays £1000 that dog will be cared for and not abused.
I feel i had to get this issue off my chest, My first responsibility is to the pups I sell, at £1000, I am safe in the knowledge they will be going to good homes, If you are willing to pay £1000 for a puppy, you are the sort of person that is going love that puppy.
Otherwise you would'nt do it
RANT OVER !!!!!

do ya feel better after that?lol

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It was very theraputic I must say,,,

it does every one good to have a rant

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i think i would,,,,,,,,,, they got their words across just so,,,,

A rare blue puppy rolleyes:They are not rare!

As for your stud fee,well you could have used a CH for the price you have probably paid,in all honesty you use a blue so you hope you will get blues and charge extortionate,OTT prices.
18 CH's in a 5 generation ped isn't many.Money in no way shape or form guarentees a home for life!

I'm sorry Breeders selling and ripping off innocent buyers makes me sick!I know of good kennels that bred my bitches grandfather that have had a litter recently,3 blue pups were there,they charged the going rate for them,not over inflated prices.
Personally I wouldn't touch a Breeder that charges a different amount for different coloured pups,it inicates to me they are interested in one thing,MONEY!Afterall it doesn't cost more to raise a different coloured pup,or does it?!

You said in an eariler post supply and demand,I think the supply off SBT's definatly outdoes demand,Don't you?

Very True Darren,
It should be quality that counts not colour,sam why don't we see Blues in the ring?
And it's not because they are rare,it's because they are usually badly bred,resemble nothing like the breed,and have pigmentation faults,such as grey noses,light eyes etc......

ive a feeling ive heard this all before lol

Are you not bothered what sort of owners buy the black ones then?!
I see your point regarding market value and you are right, no-one would sell something for less than its worth but there are many blue staff pups for sale out there WELL under £1000 from top lines/breeders and this has been proven in previous threads regarding blue staffs.
How do you explain that one

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