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Old January 25th, 2011, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by luckypenny View Post
It's also extremely expensive. I would imagine the costs of puppies would double or triple and send even more people to byb's . And unspayed females would still be necessary .
You're spot on, LP. And that cost for reputable breeders would be on top of hip scoring the parents, and doing any other health tests there are for your breed. In ACD's it's BAER testing(for deafness), and testing for PRA. Tests that are not done of course by puppy farmers.