Breeding Dogs as a Business or Hobby

Breeding dogs can be an expensive hobby.

If you are breeding your family pet you need to consider a few of the following things;

You need to establish whether you plan to breed a pedigree or mongrel. 

If you plan to breed your pedigree pet: will you sell them with papers or will you sell your pedigree as a family pet without papers.

If you plan to sell your pedigree with papers the returns are higher. However there is more planning and effort involved. Whereas if you plan to sell your pedigree as a family pet you can expect less money for these puppies as the burden of proof of lineage is not established.

Breeding Dogs As A Business

If you plan to breed dogs as a full-time business to make money you need to establish whether you are equipped to do so:

To make money from breeding dogs you need to have several dogs and it would be advisable to choose a breed that is popular, known to have large litters and sell at a good price. 

You could stick with one breed and become an expert or you could diversify with several breeds to give you a wider scope. 

You would need to do some research to establish these three points. A good way to gauge the popularity of the dog would be to see what kind of dogs people walk in your locality. Do some research on how large the average litter is for the breed? And scour the classifieds on the Internet and local newspapers to see the average price that the breed is selling for.

To enable larger scale breeding you would need to check with your local authorities on zoning, it would not be advisable if you are living in a suburban area to have more than one or two dogs, therefore it would suit people living in rural areas where the dog licensing issues would not be as harsh. It would also be advisable to check with the local authorities to see if you need a licence to breed on your premises.

Whether you plan on breeding as a hobby or a moneymaking business you need to be able to sell your puppies. The best way to sell your puppies is to place a classified ad as soon as they are born this gives you eight weeks to establish a home for them to be adopted into.

Placing an ad in the local newspaper is very expensive and limited to the readers of that newspaper, it is expensive as you pay for each line which means that you are limited to what you can say in your advertisements and if you wish to add a photo of your puppies it can make it very expensive and generally not a good return on investment. Your ad would be placed in the local newspaper for one day or in the case of a package deal several days however this would make the advertising much more expensive, you would need to advertise weekly until all the puppies were sold.

Placing your ad on the Internet classifieds is not only cheaper but more effective as many more people today use the Internet to buy and sell online as your audience is larger you can reach more people than just people who live in your area, by placing ads on the Internet you can advertise relatively cheaply you are not limited to "X" amount of lines or words and you can add several photos, or even upload video. You can place your advertisement for up to 8 weeks at once, and cancel the ad once the puppies are sold. It is as easy as that.

For Dog Breeders in United Kingdom and Ireland you can place your ads here.

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For Dog Breeders in Canada you can place your ads here.

For Dog Breeders in Australia you can place your ads here.

For Dog Breeders in New Zealand you can place your ads here.