Quote Originally Posted by Reachoutrescue
He said he paid $1200 for him. Later that day, I got an email about some "Labradoodles" being in a local kill pound....if that man would have just looked a little harder, he could have had the same MUTT for only $60 with vaccines and neutering.
Yes, but it's all in the advertising. Bill something up as 'rare' or do some fancy webpage with a bunch of bologna on it and wham you got yourself a money maker raking it in off of a bunch of uninformed buyers. Some people are easily swayed and if you use a bunch of big words and talk like you know what you are doing and throw in a few fake 'testimonials' it's $$$ city. Sad but true.

I think more people should reserch stuff before spending money, from pets to homes, to appliances etc. The problem is with the web allowing everyone to have any webpage saying whatever they want, the hard part is sorting out the sources of the information, which sadly many people do not do well. And some people breeding/selling these mutts are just as uniformed as their buyers are because they got suckered into thinking they had something special.