What is the most profitable dog for breeding?

Answer 1

Well they may not be the "most" profitable breeding dogs, but I know that German Wirehaired Pointers are very valuable dogs. I own one myself and she was very pricey. I have seen the puppies for sale for over $2,000.

There isn't one. Speaking from the point of a professional breeder you will spend a great deal more money breeding any breed of dog than you will ever recover. The breeders that I know do it more because they love having the dogs around and it helps offset some of the cost of keeping them. I know people see these $2000.00 price tags and think that breeder is making a bundle but I can tell you from experience to make that $2000.00 they very likely spent $10,000.00 and only a very few breeders are dedicated enough to their breed to insure good healthy pups and the time it takes to get a reputation strong enough to command these prices. And finding customers that can pay that kind of money for a pup are not that easy to find either. Saying Professional Breeders don't make money is something professional breeders say to discourage professional breeding, and that statement is ridiculous. Most pro breeders are in it for the money, and this love of the breed thing is a cover story that sounds good. The show quality dog breeding situation has a Naziesque dedication to superficial qualities like coloration and physical qualities for example neck length in some dogs, that not only looks silly, but isn't the best trait for the dogs well being. They can have grooming standards which require so much work that the dogs must endure hours of torture for the beauty show. They are surely not looking out for the best interests of the dog for the dogs sake, and to hold up exploitation such as this and respect show breeders and the show circuit for "what they do for the breed" is hardly an intelligent stance for anyone who really cares about dogs well being. Along with this twisted treatment of dogs for their own profit, most big "show quality" breeders go a long way to discourage others who would like to breed, including posting mountains of Propaganda on the internet and in publications smearing all those who breed dogs that are not of "show quality", but those who have the cultivated show characteristics in their dogs take measures to protect their control and profits, like insisting that dogs they sell be neutered and none of their pups can be registered, or charging an extreme price for them. It's true that there is a lot to it, and someone looking for easy money is very likely to be very disappointed and lose money. It's a long term proposition. Many dogs are expensive due to much expense required to bring healthy puppys into the world in such dogs are English Bull Dogs which usually have c section births and often some health problems to deal with. You can really lose your behind even if you know what you are doing, let alone if you don't. It's really best to work with a quality breeder before you just try to do it yourself without a base of knowledge that will probably make all the difference. A good breeder concentrates on building characteristics of health and good temperament in dogs for the purposes intended. There is a place for show dogs, but things have gone a little nuts when so many consider that dogs prime roll in the world. There are working dogs for hunting, guarding, tracking anything from game to drug interdiction, racing which is probably the only thing worse than the show obsessors. There are dogs which are just good pets, and they should all be someone's pets, because that's what makes them the most happy in life aside from running around in packs killing other animals and people and eating them, as is the nature of all dogs ancestry, but which we probably don't want now. There is no short answer to which dog is most profitable to raise. It all depends on demand in an area, and the expense in raising different kinds of dogs of a quality that will demand high prices with the people in those areas. Most of the inflated prices some pay is unfounded in real characteristics of the dogs they buy, and more grounded in status based on superficial criteria like show wins which are highly subjective and driven by personal preference and whims of judges, based on often silly criteria which won't serve the dog or a dog owner any practical purpose, and often even look really, well ... stupid and or ugly. If you want to be a profitable dog breeder, like most other business, it requires knowledge of dogs and markets which requires a lot of learning and intensive research, a lot of work, and some money to invest in the dogs and proper facilities as well as operating expenses, which are usually much higher than planned. Dogs are noisy, messy, often destroy your property, other animals, sanity, tick off your neighbors, and enjoy being just a plain old pain in the back side in general ... and that's just the good part : ). I've bred and raised fish, rabbits, quail, chickens, reptiles, cats, sheep, cows, horses, even 4 kids as a single father and probably even some stuff I forgot, and only the kids have been a bigger pain than dogs, of course only kids have been more rewarding, but you have to love em to do it well (both kids and dogs). I can say this, there are much more sure and easier ways to make money than raising dogs. If you want a 24 hour job dealing with a number of challenges that can drive you crazy, that may or may not pay you, raising dogs for a living is for you.