Much care, time, and yes, money, has gone into extensively health testing the parents, fees to the sire’s owner, large vet fees for inseminating the dam if the sire is far away, vet care and additional food for the mom during pregnancy and nursing, vet care for the first 8-10 weeks of the pup’s lives, food for the pups from weaning onward, MUCH time in raising the entire litter for 8-10 weeks, beginning training, creating those social and confident puppies, and a whole lot else. Most breeders will tell you that a good breeder, doing it right, doesn’t make a huge amount of money on a litter; if we’re doing what’s right for the mom and babies, it’s not a big money-maker.
