How much are these dogs at a local pet store?

LiKE A THOUSANd SOMETHiNG
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You do not want to buy a dog from a pet store. 95% of the dogs sold from pet stores are bought from puppy mills or back yard breeders and you will be purchasing a sick and overpriced dog. If you want a pure dog, then go find a reputable breeder in your area to buy from.
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the boston terrior is about 200-300 (im not extremely positive). i dont know any of the others. but i do know that the yorkie runs a little higher then most breeds because of there popularity
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Petland and Petcetrea are NOT good places to buy from, please please avoid these stores.

Now where do we buy or adopt a dog from a HONEST breeder, responsible breeders?
American Eskimo Breeder referals
AEDCA Breeder Referral Chair
Jon Herman
122 Cedarhurst Dr.
St. Mary's, OH 45885
Phone: 419-394-4234 jherman1@woh.rr.com

Northeast & Southeast Region Coordinator
Dorry Stone
508-873-4013
eskie@charter.net

Southwest & Pacific Region Coordinator
Kathy Kozakiewicz
602-254-2328
kistari@cox.net

Midwest & Northwest Region Coordinator
Jon Herman
419-394-4234
jherman1@woh.rr.com

Yorkshire Terrier Club of America breeder referals
http://www.ytca.org/breeder2a.html

Boston Terrier breeder referal contact
http://www.bostonterrierclubofamerica.org/BTCA/btca-officers.htm

Now watch these vidoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZsCwOy5rdI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYEhgMO89Ig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLccL9Yi3J4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HM8UmHM8Uo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdcNl5FqcKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDGlWTWrWBw

Now do you really want to support puppy mills?

The reality is that no responsible breeder would ever place one of their puppies in a pet shop. A breeder who has placed a puppy in a pet shop has disqualified himself as a responsible breeder.

A USDA license is not something that should reassure you. On the contrary, it is warning sign that a breeder is cranking out lots of puppies.

My advice to you is to IGNORE everything pet shop people tell you. The pet store industry has sophisticated marketing manuals that teach pet shop owners and employees exactly what to say to persuade you to part with your money. Don't be gullible.

The DISadvantages of pet shops

Pet shops acquire their puppies from breeders who don't test their dogs for health problems. You can't look at a pet shop puppy (or any puppy, for that matter) and say, "Well, he looks healthy!" and think that that's the end of it! The health problems I'm talking about are inherited on genes. If your puppy has inherited those genes, these health problems WILL show up eventually, long after you've brought the puppy home.

There are health tests that can determine, with 100% accuracy, whether a puppy has inherited certain serious health problems. There are other health tests that can't say for sure, but can predict the risk. Responsible breeders do these tests. Breeders who sell to pet stores don't.

Pet shop puppies are frequently inbred. Most pet shops don't even have a copy of their puppies' pedigrees for you to look at. Instead, they mail it to you AFTER you've bought the puppy. And you receive only 3 or 4 generations, not nearly enough to evaluate inbreeding.

Pet shop puppies may have "sham" registration papers and pedigrees. More and more pet shops are avoiding the stricter documentation requirements of the AKC and registering their puppies with an "alternative" registry like the Continental Kennel Club, APR, APRI, NKC, and others. Now, the AKC definitely has its problems with people falsifying registration papers and pedigrees, but the alternative registries are even worse. If a puppy has registration papers from any of these registries, I wouldn't believe that the parents listed on the papers are necessarily the true parents, that the ancestors listed on the pedigree are the true ancestors, or that the puppy is even purebred.

Dog with bad temperamentYou can't see the puppy's parents. This is a BIG negative because the parents' genes can have so much influence on how your puppy turns out. If you can't see the parents, how can you tell whether they might have passed on genes for unhealthy structure, bad teeth, or a bad temperament? Virtually ALL puppies look normal and healthy and are friendly and playful. But as the puppies mature, the genes they inherited WILL begin to assert themselves, and that's when all the problems will start!

You can't see where the puppies were raised. Another BIG negative. The majority of pet shop puppies are raised in small wire-bottomed cages in outbuildings. They've never seen the inside of a house. Many of them don't even know how to drink water from a bowl because they've been drinking from hamster bottles since they were born.

Many pet shop puppies are hyperactive and noisy. Raised in a small cage, they haven't been able to run and play and explore like normal puppies, so they've developed frenetic habits like running in small circles and excessive barking.

Many pet shop puppies are nippy. Some were removed from their mother before 7 weeks of age. You'll remember that puppies need a full seven weeks with their mother so she can teach them "bite inhibition". If they haven't learned this lesson, their nippiness will be hard to correct.

Other pet shop puppies have learned to nip from all the people who take them out of their cages and play wrestling games with them. This encourages the puppy to growl and nip and mouth people's hands — bad lessons that can be hard to correct.

Housebreaking is difficult in petshop puppiesMost pet shop puppies are hard to housebreak. Where does a pet shop puppy go the bathroom? Right there in his cage. It's hard to take such a puppy home and teach him NOT to go to the bathroom in his crate or bed when that's what he's been trained to do!

Pet shop puppies often come with illnesses. You bring the puppy home and a few days later he develops a cough, or diarrhea, or vomiting, or listlessness, or he starts scratching or losing hair…. this happens over and over with pet shop puppies. Kennel cough, parvovirus, coronavirus, giardia, coccidia, mange, ringworm — these illnesses are commonly found in commercial breeding kennels and pet stores.

Pet shops often overload their puppies with vaccinations and chemicals. Because the puppies are exposed to so many illnesses, pet stores often overdo the vaccines, dewormers, and chemical baths and dips. Overloading the poor puppy's immune system like this is very damaging for his long-term health.
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http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com/buying/articles/petshops-and-pet-stores.html

Finally, a major disadvantage of acquiring a pet shop puppy is . . .

You're supporting a bad industry. When you pay money for a pet shop puppy, you're encouraging the industry to keep doing what it's doing.

You've emptied one cage, yes — which creates demand for another puppy to be born to fill that cage. Even if YOU are lucky and YOUR puppy turns out "okay", a large percentage of the others will not, and YOU helped provide the incentive for them to be born by buying the one who came before them.
So what seems like a simple, isolated purchase actually contributes to:

* The misery of female dogs who spend their lives in a cage, being bred again and again so people will have a "quick and convenient" source from which to buy.
* The misery of future puppies born with health and temperament problems.
* The misery of families who will buy these puppies and then struggle to cope with all the health and temperament problems.
* The misery of animal rescue groups who have to deal with all the pet shop puppies dumped on their doorstep when frustrated families give up on the health and temperament problems.

When you buy one of those cute puppies in the pet shop, you buy more than the puppy. You buy the budding physical, behavioral, and health problems created by the bad genes passed on by untested parents whom you never get to see or evaluate. And you feed a profit-hungry industry that's doing a lot of harm to innocent creatures.

Make sure the PETCO, PETSMART store that do have genuine animal adoption and find out which adoption centre there coming from as price will depend on the adoption fee the actual animal shelter charges

Petland and petcetera puppies come from PUPPY MILLS, AND COST MORE THEN THERE WORTH.
I DO NOT OWN THESE WEBSITES
http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com/buying/articles/petshops-and-pet-stores.html

Petland? Google Petland & puppy mills. That's where ALL their dogs come from. Look at some videos of puppy mills and see if it's what you'd choose to support by buying one of their puppies. The ONLY way to shut down puppy mills is to cut off the demand. No market - no product
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Never buy a dog from a pet store!!!

Pet stores get their puppies almost exclusively from puppy mills.

http://www.stoppuppymills.com

Buying the puppies supports that kind of animal abuse. Don't do it.

Go to http://www.akc.org or http://www.uksdogs.com and check out the breeders lists for your breeds; all three are recognized at both kennel clubs. You will pay less, and your puppy will be healthy and well-socialized… two things that you don't get from puppy mills.
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Pet store pups are overpriced and you should never by a pup from a pet store. By doing so you are supporting puppy mills because that's where pet stores get the pups from. They won't tell you that, they say they are from breeders… sure they are. Puppy mills are breeders!

Get your pup from a reputable breeder.

Google puppy mills and see if you want to put money in the pockets of cretins who use dogs the way they do..for money.
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I forget there are states where dogs still get sold in pet stores. Ah well, I guess the puppy mills need some sort of retail outlet.
Please walk away from the pet stores. Give the same amount of money to a shelter and you’ll get the same kind of dog, but you won’t be supporting a puppy mill.
Use PetFinder to get a purebred from a shelter: http://www.petfinder.com/index.html
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I dont have those stores near me, but I only have a crappy pet smart (they have cats only, and give them nothing) but I live near a pet store where the dogs are in diapers, in cribs, but it is cute.
I see them there. These were the prices for the breeds I saw. A puggle (girl, 7 weeks.) was $1,350.

American Eskimo: $750. Miniture: $980.
Yorkshire Terrier: $815.
Boston Terrier: $550.

That was a very demanding pet store. They basically train them a little, groom them, diaper them, dress them in pjs or something, and cover them up with a blanket in their crib at nighty night. Very caring, but expensive pet store. I heard some dogs are sick, now.
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Dont buy from a pet store. Pet Store puppies come from puppy mills where dogs arent cared for and are mistreated. Petland is well known for buying from puppy mills.

Adopt from http://www.petfinder.com and save a life
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As above, please don't ever buy from a pet store! You get the poorest quality dog at the highest price, and you support evil people that raise dogs like rats in tiny cages. Go to Petfinder.com, and find dogs in local shelters or rescues that need your help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HM8UmHM8Uo, http://www.squidoo.com/truthaboutpuppymills, humanesociety.org/issues/puppy_mills/qa/puppy_mill_FAQs.html
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30+yrs dog owner, trainer, rescue

These dogs will cost you as much if not more than a quality pup, perhaps even one with show potential, from a reputable breeder. Petland and those other bigbox pet stores routinely rip people off for papered dogs that are little more than pet quality. It's also a widely known fact the dogs are puppy mill dogs and therefore tend to come with health or behavioral problems.

Check out a reputable breeder. If you're going to spend that much on a puppy then by damn make sure you're getting a quality pet that will be free of problems.
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i never got my pup from one of them but i did get a healthy pup from a pet store for $750 a beautiful golden retriever….i know yorkies go around $1500 where i got mine….haven't seen any boston terriers or eskimos there…you can call the pet store they will give you a price right over the phone if they have a breed you are looking for…after i got my golden retriever i contacted the breeder that sold her to the pet shop and got her akc papers…i just don't understand why pet stores don't accept them even though they are sent with the pups but the pet stores send them back to the breeders….we don't have a petland here or a petcetera…we have jacks aquarium and petsmart first pets and super pets…..
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pom breeder
i get TDs by show breeders and tree huggers because i don't breed by kennel club breed standards because kennel club breed standards produces unhealthy pups…http://www.mypetkingdom.info/pets/dogs-pets/american-kennel-club-controversy

VERY expensive and a total rip off, why dont you have a look at the pound first you might get lucky and find a dog of these breeds there, very cheap at the pound. their de-sex, vaccinated, wormed, micro chipped, de-fleaed the works, very cheap at the pound!!!
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$1000 up
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