How much did you pay for your dog?

I paid $10 for my first dog when I was a child.  He was a mutt.  We have paid up to $1000 for  a dog.  The initial cost is really just the beginning though. : )
 
 

The initial cost is really just the beginning though. : )

 
Oh how I wish people would realize this sooner rather than later.   I wonder how many dogs are in the pound / shelter / rescue because they became "too expensive".  I know that for me every dollar is lovingly spent, and I'm very fortunate to be able to spend like that.

Winnie ATB as a Basset puppy...$125 from a BYB
Buffy 4 yr retired show Basset...$150 plus airfare

I've learned a lot from dog forums!

Each of mine were $150, spay/neuter included. Rosie is from the SPCA and Trooper is from a local rescue.

Sally was a 200.00 donation to the rescue group. She is probably full JRT
Heidi was 100 adoption fee to the rescue shelter. She is quite a mix of stuff.

Both dogs were fixed and de-wormed. We spent several thousand though in food, toys, crates, blankets, pillows, leashes, collars, etc.

Not to mention the sheer cost of all the household items that Heidi has devoured- shoes, books, furniture, etc.

I paid $1800 for Slick from a reputable breeder.  His pedigree is full of both conformation (Ch) and working titles (JH, MH) and has some of the "best" lines in the breed (Dickendall, for example).  I meet his breeder by chance at Westminster 3 years ago, where his sire took BOS.  Here's a shot of Nellie (Slick's sire) the day I met him!   I know he looks fat, but he really is SOLID.  Slicky is the spitting image of his sire, about 10 lbs lighter.   Sorry, if this all sounds braggy or pretentious or something.  It's the first opportunity I've had to express pride in his lineage to folks who actually understand what it means! 
 

Just wanted to add that Slick is the first dog I've ever bought.  I've had dogs for 38 years and they've ALL been either strays that found me, or failed fosters!    The initial cost is truly a drop in the bucket and is almost meaningless to me.  We should talk about the "Average annual cost of your dog!"  THAT would be an eye opener to an unsure lurker. 

Darby, my 16 year old Poodle was abandonned at my mothers while being boarded there...he was free to me.
 
Dooley is a 6 year old Aussie/Lab X and I found him at a horse show in the bed of a truck with a whole huge litter of puppies. The puppies who didn't find a home that day were going to the pound. I bought Dooley for $35.
 
Witt just turned 4 years old and is a Catahoula X. I found him on Petfinder. He was in California and I was in Oregon. I think his adoption fee was $250. We tried getting him to us by transportation train, but it was winter and nobody wanted to cross the mountain passes. We ended up buying some chains and driving to get him ourselves. With gas(1978 Chevy truck..eats gas!) and everything it took to go get him..I could have easily bought a purebred and had it delivered to my door. The trip was an adventure and I have no regrets at all. Witt is my heart and soul boy. I did get $50 refunded for neutering him.
 
Annie is an Aussie/ probably German Shorthaired Pointer X and is turning 5 years old in April. I took her in an emergency to keep her from being impounded and very likely euthanized. She had "bitten" someone. She had actually nipped a man. Annie had been adopted by a woman and her daughter from the humane society. They had never owned a dog before..one of them worked full time and the other went to school full time ..they had no business getting a herding type dog with no understanding of its needs. She was almost two and had been in and out of a bunch of shelters in her short life. The woman left her in a 5ft cyclone fenced yard for 12-15 hours a day. Annie quickly learned how to jump the fence and began herding people in the street. One day she managed to gather a small group of people and when one man kicked at her she nipped at his ankle. She would not have passed the temperment test at that point. I took her that day thinking I would do some work with her and find her a home. She was free..I think they would have paid me to take her actually. I had her evaluated by a man who raises Aussies and trains herding dogs. He assured me that she just needed a job and some training, that she was not aggressive. Annie is the most driven dog I have ever met. We ended up keeping her and I'll grant you that she is a lot of work, but we have all learned alot and gained much. She is a joy.

Otto was $250, he's not a show quality as you might see in his pictures He was the biggest puppy in the litter (the son of the breeder called him monster ha ha) and his ears didn't look like they would stand up, which they did eventually (but they still are down every morning when he gets up). Everyone is right that the expensive things come after you get them. All the supplies, puppy vaccinations, food, suppliments, neuter, microchip.....Wowza, pricey but worth EVERY penny. I LOVE my dog!

Edit: he is also the first dog I ever paid for, all our dogs my whole life have been rescues to this point Our two dals were free, but one had parvo treatment and recurrent pancreatitis. Our pit mix was $70 from the humane society but is healthy as a horse and cute cute cute. Our golden was free as was our cocker I don't remember the last two but my mom told me they were sweet (I was little)

Kota - $20 from the animal shelter
Tasha - $50 from the animal shelter
Shadow - free from BYB
Pepper - free after failed foster

Buckwheat: $80 rescue org
 
Nonnie: $750 finished Ch, co own with breeder
 
Ellie: I bred her...so nothing really aside from the money spent on the breeding/whelping the litter she came from.
 
Sandy: I bred her..."                                                                                                 "
 
Teeny: I bred her... "                                                                                                 "

Honey - parents bought her for our "family" (meaning me to take care of) in 1997 for $35 at seven weeks old.  (she's half shepherd, quarter husky and quarter beagle)
 
Cody - free from craigslist, lady needed to find a home for him because he had SA and the neighbors complained too much

Sofia, free from our tenant who hadn't even realized her Siberian had bred [:@] We also took Sofia's sister, Athena, and helped home the other puppies.

Dogs who have gone to the Bridge:

Stevie, a dog who fell off a pickup truck and attached himself to my son at school. Free.

Nika, A cocker spaniel, free, rescued from a bad situation (owner gave up).

Taffy, A yellow lab, found nearly starved to death.


Hunter, the smaller brother of Clifford the Big Red Dog, got him at the dog pound for $65.

Baxter was $50 from his previous "owner."
Cheyenne was $85 from a shelter.
Akasha was free.
Prince was $101 from the county shelter.

Not a penny. Molly was an oops litter that I got to meet before the pups made their way to the shelter. She was five weeks old when the "owners" decied that they were moving and not taking the litter with them. She is a rott/ACD mix.
 
If I had tried to get her from a rescue, I probably wouldn't have been allowed- I was still a college kid renting an apartment. I had people tell me that because of her breed mix, she'd be agressive, highly protective, and hyper- not true at all. My parents thought it was a totally inaproppriate decision.  I didn't care. When I was moving, I had several landlords tell me to lose the dog or else I would have a hard time finding a new place... my current town (not my college town) is NOT dog freindly for renters. Anyway, we stuck together and 9 years later, here we are.