Lamping Dogs Through The Roof

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

How anyone could put a price on a dog they've had from a pup and brought on is beyond me.

 

My pup was a gift but going rate seems to be around the £150-250 mark.

 

So let's call it £200. Jabs, wormers, insurance probably £100.

 

She is 6 months old and I've had her since 6 weeks so she's cost me about £150 in food.

 

Time? I earn about £20 an hour at work. If I averaged out the time I've spent with this pup it would be about 3 hours a day. So that's about £7000 give or take.

 

So £7500 would be a break even.

 

Would I let her go for £7500? No thanks

[Tiny 7 1,694]

20 a hour fcuk me what are you a rent boy lol.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

20 a hour fcuk me what are you a rent boy lol.

No but I do that at weekends for 30 an hour

[Millet 4,497]

If i was offered the best lamping dog in the country for free i would turn it down no matter how desperate i was... you just can't beat bringing a pup on and watching it progressing and doing well..the sense of achievement is something else..you will loose all that when buying a older dog in but some folk have too because they can barely train there kid's let alone a good dog..

[greenman 221]

If i was offered the best lamping dog in the country for free i would turn it down no matter how desperate i was... you just can't beat bringing a pup on and watching it progressing and doing well..the sense of achievement is something else..you will loose all that when buying a older dog in but some folk have too because they can barely train there kid's let alone a good dog..

Got to agree with that, My lurchers have always been from pups and always been with me till they dropped. In the past I'd taken on some older cockers and springers to either train for the owners or when people had given up on them and had made reasonable dogs out of them but the bond wasn't their, they never felt like 'my' dog.

 

My old lurcher bitch is coming up 7 and been here since 6 weeks, we just know what each other is doing and very little needs to be said.

 

My young bitch is an ulcer inducing twat, in time she will come good I'm sure, but I have a real bond with her I don't think I would get from a 'made' dog and as millet said the satisfaction.

 

Your right too Gaz, if we put a realistic financial costing on our dogs you wouldn't dare keep them let alone sell them!

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

If i was offered the best lamping dog in the country for free i would turn it down no matter how desperate i was... you just can't beat bringing a pup on and watching it progressing and doing well..the sense of achievement is something else..you will loose all that when buying a older dog in but some folk have too because they can barely train there kid's let alone a good dog..

Got to agree with that, My lurchers have always been from pups and always been with me till they dropped. In the past I'd taken on some older cockers and springers to either train for the owners or when people had given up on them and had made reasonable dogs out of them but the bond wasn't their, they never felt like 'my' dog.

 

My old lurcher bitch is coming up 7 and been here since 6 weeks, we just know what each other is doing and very little needs to be said.

 

My young bitch is an ulcer inducing twat, in time she will come good I'm sure, but I have a real bond with her I don't think I would get from a 'made' dog and as millet said the satisfaction.

 

Your right too Gaz, if we put a realistic financial costing on our dogs you wouldn't dare keep them let alone sell them!

Good post that mate. And spot on aswell.

 

I've got a bitch here now which I brought in as an adult from background unknown. Had 2 and half very good seasons with her. Plus the summers mooching about. She's hardly left my side. But the bond just isn't there. She's a nervous bitch anyway which annoys me, I only have to raise my voice and she cowers. And I've never given her a good hiding.

 

I just don't feel much for her at all.

 

Yet my pup is 6 months old, I've had her from 6 weeks old and the bond is incredible. She looks at me lovingly and I feel a lot for this little bitch.

[morton 5,368]

There is always a market for a ready made jukel,the amount of folk around that don,t have the knack or commitment to source a decent pup,then put in the time and effort to bring it to fruition.There are many lads about more than willing to part a nugget from his/her brass,if they cannot put in the time and effort with a pup then they deserve to line the peddlars pocket.At times,because of circumstance,the odd diamond will become available,£500 is still far to much to lay out for a mutt,unless you want it?.

[andy97 209]

i was going to do the same thing buy a dog in at about 200 and work it straight off but instead got a 9month old pup as didnt want to take on someone elses mistakes had him about 5 week n hes shit hot gunna make a good dog recalls retrieves catches just started running the beam n when i got him wouldnt come never even watched the lamp so chuffed to fcuk atm with him n the bond is there he and he knows the score

[Millet 4,497]

I would not get one older than 7wk's old let alone 9mth as you won't have a clue what has happened to him/her in those vital few week's of training... but if you are happy with him that's all that matter's..

[socks 32,253]

I would not get one older than 7wk's old let alone 9mth as you won't have a clue what has happened to him/her in those vital few week's of training... but if you are happy with him that's all that matter's..

Same for me mate ... I like to rear a pup my way and get it thinking along my lines from the start ...........

[andy97 209]

I would not get one older than 7wk's old let alone 9mth as you won't have a clue what has happened to him/her in those vital few week's of training... but if you are happy with him that's all that matter's..

didnt want a puppy mate still a pup at 9month full of beans n when we get out hes on the ball still needs abit of work but as said hes still a pup the bloke had to sell as was getting evicted when we got there to pik him up all house was packed up ready to go said he couldnt get anywere for him to go genuine bloke

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

 

I would not get one older than 7wk's old let alone 9mth as you won't have a clue what has happened to him/her in those vital few week's of training... but if you are happy with him that's all that matter's..

didnt want a puppy mate still a pup at 9month full of beans n when we get out hes on the ball still needs abit of work but as said hes still a pup the bloke had to sell as was getting evicted when we got there to pik him up all house was packed up ready to go said he couldnt get anywere for him to go genuine bloke

Why though? For the sake of 7 months why not get it at 8 weeks old?

 

Pups are like sponges in them first few months, yours could of spent it's first few months locked in a shed.

[andy97 209]

 

 

I would not get one older than 7wk's old let alone 9mth as you won't have a clue what has happened to him/her in those vital few week's of training... but if you are happy with him that's all that matter's..

didnt want a puppy mate still a pup at 9month full of beans n when we get out hes on the ball still needs abit of work but as said hes still a pup the bloke had to sell as was getting evicted when we got there to pik him up all house was packed up ready to go said he couldnt get anywere for him to go genuine bloke

Why though? For the sake of 7 months why not get it at 8 weeks old?

 

Pups are like sponges in them first few months, yours could of spent it's first few months locked in a shed.

 

tbh mate i wanted something to go straight out with my other dog had just been knocked over so thought 9 month pefect age can take him out on bunnies and by the time hes 18month to 2yr itll be like hes been here all his life anyway you can tell hes not been batterd or mis treated by the way he is ive seen dogs that have been batterd and are scared soon as a raised voice or load bangs he goes out with the 12 n doesnt flinch when i raise my voice doesnt cower

[Millet 4,497]

 

I would not get one older than 7wk's old let alone 9mth as you won't have a clue what has happened to him/her in those vital few week's of training... but if you are happy with him that's all that matter's..

didnt want a puppy mate still a pup at 9month full of beans n when we get out hes on the ball still needs abit of work but as said hes still a pup the bloke had to sell as was getting evicted when we got there to pik him up all house was packed up ready to go said he couldnt get anywere for him to go genuine bloke

 

Good luck with him ..

[andy97 209]

 

 

I would not get one older than 7wk's old let alone 9mth as you won't have a clue what has happened to him/her in those vital few week's of training... but if you are happy with him that's all that matter's..

didnt want a puppy mate still a pup at 9month full of beans n when we get out hes on the ball still needs abit of work but as said hes still a pup the bloke had to sell as was getting evicted when we got there to pik him up all house was packed up ready to go said he couldnt get anywere for him to go genuine bloke

 

Good luck with him ..

 

nice one way hes going be top class next season taking big and small bunnies now carnt really ask for much more than that at 9 month