What goes into our pricing?

We know pricing is always a big consideration when purchasing a new puppy.

I'd like to start off saying there is no such thing as a good quality, cheap puppy; whether a Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, or any other breed!

What science, research, knowledge, and experience has taught us in breeding is that what you save today will more than likely cost you greatly tomorrow and that is true for breeders and buyers! We sincerely hope you will consider that and even do your own fact checking here. I am a BIG research type of person as I feel Knowledge is power and where other innocent lives are concerned I feel it's never more important than with breeding to know the facts. And the facts back up the above statement.

Now, does having a good quality puppy with parents that have all of the good health certifications guarantee a perfectly healthy puppy that will live out his or her whole life problem free? No, they just make the odds that they will much greater! The fact of the matter is health problems in dogs aren't always genetic and sometimes if they are it can happen at random if all of the proper testing was done to prevent it. However, health conditions can greatly be attributed to environmental factors too. No matter how hard we try there are things our dogs are exposed to in their environment such as but not limited to their food, household chemicals, etc. that pose risks to them just the same as they do us. Not always is a health condition a genetic factor, especially if coming from  good breeder that did all of the health testing to try and prevent it from happening. But if you're buying a puppy that has been poorly bred by an unethical breeder cutting corners and not doing health testing and ensuring their dogs are coming from good, healthy lines (cheap puppy) your odds of an unhealthy dog with future health conditions are much much higher with both genetic and environmental factors stacked against them.  

The hard, sad facts about cheap puppies...

I want to share the power of knowledge with you to help you protect yourself as best as you can from falling victim to these types of breeders, regardless whether you buy a puppy from us or another ethical good quality breeder.

It's not uncommon, especially these days to see breeders saying things like "our dogs are healthy" or "our puppies come with a one or two year health guarantee" but still there was zero testing of the puppy's line you're considering buying from them. They may even have tons of 5 star reviews from tons and tons of buyers who bought one of their many many puppies as they produce tons of litters a year, often times having two, three, or more litters on the ground regularly at once, but yet you still notice the red flags of an unethical breeder because you armed yourself with the knowledge of what a good breeder should be doing for your puppy. Lets see all of this for what it really is, a sales pitch. These breeders aren't breeding for the health of the puppies they're producing, or with your pocket and heart in mind. They're breeding for their own selfish profitable gain.

What is even scarier is some of the unethical backyard breeders today are even asking the prices of ethical breeders with quality puppies because they're able to fool their buyers into thinking they're breeding right by offering a health guarantee or stating their dogs are healthy and/or health tested but supplying their puppies families with NO PROOF. Bottom line is at least basic knowledge is power for buyers too! Whether you buy one of our puppies or another from a different breeder I hope us sharing this information with you is helpful in helping you spot and identify the breeders you should or should not consider and realize a cheap puppy may be cheap now but a few years down the road your odds of spending thousands and thousands of dollars more on the "cheap" puppy you bought in the beginning from the unethical breeder is highly likely, as well as your heart will break for your dog as they've at that point become your best friend and a part of your family.