What is the Most Expensive Dog?

my husband paid $2500 for his rottweiler, i think he said she cost so much because she was a specific type, goliath. and i have to say she lived up to it, weighs over 140 lbs. and man she has beautiful markings. i would never pay that much for a dog though, i'd much rather spend the 120 at the shelter and adopt a dog, then spend the rest of the thousands on spoiling the crap out of it.

by the way, im curious as to why you want to know what the most expensive dog is?

Show quality GSD go for $2000-4000, working line GSDs go for about $1200-2000, I know of a GSD that somebody paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for.
 
GSDs are certainly not a rare breed, but getting a good one will cost you a pretty penny.

my friend says she's probably spent more than $50K on her golden's assorted surgeries and medications to date, all because she decided to NOT spend $800 to get a well-bred dog and went the $200 BYB route.
 
My "best dog ever" cost me $100 donation to a rescue.

that is a pretty low figure for health tested, titled parents in more rare breeds, even some popular breeds.

ORIGINAL: mrv
that is a pretty low figure for health tested, titled parents in more rare breeds, even some popular breeds.

 
Since a good Breeder breeds only for them selves all titles and health testing is a must before breeding.So why should a puppy buyer have to help a breeder recoup something they should be doing anyway?
I just think it's nuts what people are charging and paying for a pet.Some people don't look at dogs like that and look at them as a soruce of income,and they should not be.

If a breeder is doing it right, they break even.

You don't want to break your breeder's bank, but they should not expect to make any kind of profit on selling puppies.

Ok  so OFAs for hips, elbows, cardiac, and thyroid on both parents; CERFs, plus entries for conformation, obedience, rally, herding, tracking, agility, etc.  High quality food, tests and care for prenatal, pregnancy and delivery, puppy evaluations (temperment and structure) etc.  should all be absorbed by the breeder without an attempt to replenish the dog account at least partially?  Sorry I do not agree.  When I purchase a "finishable" puppy for a championship and the temperment and structure for any performance event I may choose, I do not think 1,000.00 is unreasonable.  Especially if the cost is considered on a per diem rate for say 15 years.  Not a bad deal in my mind (oh did I mention refunds if a disqualifying fault occurs impacting conformation or performance competition?)  Lets not forget the costs to reclaim any dog produced..... nope I dont mind paying a price that supports those breeding efforts.

We paid $2400 for Harry and I don't think that's unreasonable at all.  We get a considerable refund if he proves not conformation quality.  You're paying for the stud fee, the health testing- OFA, CERF, etc, the bloodlines- you know what type of a bloodline you are getting as far as health and personality and looks etc, pregnancy care, raising the puppies, vaccines, socializing, etc.  Plus the breeder's put in money to train the parents or title them.  If a breeder is doing all this, it's going to be expensive.  Then you top it off with the fact that small breeds have tiny litters, and the breeders still have to do the same amount of testing and medical care (sometimes more on certain small breeds that have more birthing issues).  So you get all that that the breeder spent on this pregnancy and these pups and they only split this cost between two puppies.  It's not the breeder trying to sell these pups for as much as they can, it's them selling the dog so it covers some of the cost that they put into it.  I highly doubt the breeder came anywhere close to breaking even on Beau and Harry because they were both two pup litters. 
 
I see it as paying $2000 (ish for both dogs) now and knowing what kind of dog I'm getting and having it health tested before I purchase it so hopefully I will not have to spend as much on genetic diseases in the future.  Comparatively, our free dog wracked up HUGE bills for HD treatment throughout his life.  He had two hip replacements and several minor surgeries that ended up costing a lot. 
 
 

When I used to take riding lessons, the instructor raised Pembroke Welsh Corgis. She had gorgeous, titled dogs who also worked for a living on the farm. She only raised one litter per year, and never had more than three litters from a bitch.
She paid for all her dogs to be tested, shots, stud fees, vet checkups & ultrasounds. All pups were socialized with dogs, horses and cattle, crate trained and leash trained when they left her farm at twelve weeks old. That doesn't even include all the money invested in showing.

Normally, all the puppies were spoken for, but she had a larger litter than expected one year and sold three pet quality pups from an ad in the paper. One lady who came and actually accused her of being the reason that people had to go to puppy mills because she had the nerve to charge $650 for that puppy. [:@]

I personally wouldn't buy a pup of any kind. Rescue dogs fit my needs for a companion. But I have nothing against anyone who wants to buy a pup, as long as they get it from a good breeder.

ORIGINAL: brookcove

It can cost around $100,000 to import a Supreme ISDS Champion Border collie - actually no one is exactly sure what these dogs cost exactly because the owners keep it pretty close to their vests, but the sellers usually let out the ballpark figure. This has been done about half a dozen times in recent history.

Second in cost is to import a top female in whelp to one of these champions. The pups from one of these deals usually runs around $1500.

The cost of these maneuvers has dropped, however, with the advent of the pet passport program. A friend imported a daughter of a World Champion, in whelp to a Supreme Champion and it only cost her about $15,000.

 
Wow, $100K is a lot of money!  I personally know how much both a Scottish National Champion and a bitch that has run in the International twice (and is the daughter of bitch that came in 2nd) cost when they were imported and their cost together didn't even reach the cost of what your friend paid for the bitch in whelp.  And the potential offspring of the 2 of them will be sold for about $600 (about $100 over the going rate for a well bred pup).  $1500 is how much the idiots in the agility world pay for pups bred for "agility". 
 
I couldn't imagine someone paying $100K for a dog that would potentially have to be able to earn back a significant portion of his cost in stud fees (I assume that if someone paid that much money they would be planning on breeding him a lot).  Especially if the dog (again, I assume it would be a dog that would command this much money because there's no way a bitch could earn back that amount of money) isn't a proven breeder to begin with, with offspring that have already proven themselves both on the "hill" and on the trial field. 
 
I did a little asking around today to people who would definitely be in the know regarding dogs that cost this much money and they didn't think that $100K was a realistic amount.  I wonder if this figure is a bit of a sheepdog urban legend?

I wonder if this figure is a bit of a sheepdog urban legend?

No.

  I did a little asking around today to people who would definitely be in the know regarding dogs that cost this much money and they didn't think that $100K was a realistic amount.  I wonder if this figure is a bit of a sheepdog urban legend?

A few of the people I know that either have show dogs and hire a handler for them, or show their own -use their dogs and dog show expenses as a net loss for taxes.  Some people have so much money that they need to spend ALOT of it to help themselves out.

This being the case, imported dog stock prices can be inflated if say Rich Guy A and Rich Guy B both want the same dog.  They keep bidding and bidding...until finally one says to the other "You win., no dog is workth $100K."  But one guy pays that and gets his dog.

It's high end, but all in all basic economics.

We're trying a new migraine med that seems to mess with with my dyslexia a lot, so that's why I was so brief that's lastnight, and I'l have to keep it short now (apologies for all the screwups).

I dunno who you were talking to but there's a huge difference between national ch., qualifiers, and blue riband winners. Additionally, a multiple cup winner fetches more. Think about it - there's only been a few, and there's only been one imported. It took a franchise to import HIM. I also don't know where you are, but well bred pups are going for $600 to $1000 around here now. The "Bitch in whelp" deals ARE ridiculous, mostly the product of the AKC folks looking for the ISDS stock with potential to show - the dealers overseas have got their numbers now, lol. But it hurts us. I know a guy who imports dogs regularly, basically makes his living doing it, who has had to quit, because the prices have gotten so high. The otehr resason is the Euroepans are buying up british dogs like crazy now. the last Supreme winner that was for sale went to Canada - but an acquaintance of mine was one of the early negotiators in taht deal. He was a horse dealer but he couldn't compete teh price went up to fast.

I just think it's nuts what people are charging and paying for a pet
 
Oh yah....you should be able to buy a new Lexus for the price of a used Pinto definitely.