Grade dog pricing.

[Rock Bottom]

In about 1998 I was offered $2500 for a grade dog and did not take the cash........I told the guy it would be kinda like a Bass fisherman selling his boat....

[Guest]

I paid $20.00 for a grade female 12 years ago. I have had alot of dogs come and go through my kennel but she stayed. I couldn't imagine trying to count the number of rabbits taken in front of her. The other 7 dogs in my kennel are all akc registered, and everyone of them were started with her help. She still gets around good and I have a couple of pups that will be needing her assistance this fall. I would not sell her even now at 12 for any high price.

[Chief Long Hair]

I got mine for free then I discovered why.

[jlboomer]

ive hunted grade dogs for the past 17yrs when my grandpa got me started at 9yrs old i tried my best to keep his line going but didn't do the best of job. i still have one pretty good male that goes back to that old line and another old line that a preacher has had for 40 or more years. im just now getting into the papers dog seriously because i really like the patch hounds or old line has some patch influence. the highst i every paid for a grade dog was $500 the most ive ever been offered for one was $900. the best i ever had was a male that i paid $30 for in 1995 ran him hard for 4yrs breed him one time sold him to a friend for $150 a year latter realized my mistake and gave hime $500 for him back raised one more litter of pups from him then he got hit by a car. i plan on rasing a few akc patch dogs but i will be crossing my grade male over to my good bitches becasue he comes from about 40 yrs of hard work and good old tried and true rabbit dogs not the fanciest around but always hunts hard hunts as long as you want and as many days aweek as you want all you have to do is start the truck and he knows what to do from there.

[mud]

chief long hair.I to have been given dud grade dogs and my share of AKC hounds as well.I have 3 broke hounds now.2 AKC and 1 spayed grade dog.I have a litter of 5 pups out of a fellow beaglers hound who wins ARHA top five hunts with regularity and been succesful in AKC midwest.I hope the pups turn out.With that being said if I knew I could get another grade dog half as good as the one I owned an described in an earlier post.I would give the pups away for free. Good topic.

[MIKE]

I'M LIKE ROY PASMORE, I BOUGHT A GRADE MALE FOR $35.00 OUT OF A $43.00 UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK. HE WAS A RABBIT DOG DELUX. HIS MOUTH WOULD MAKE YOU THROW YOUR HAT ON THE GROUND & ROOT FOR THE RABBIT. OF COURSE THAT'S BEEN A FEW YEARS AGO & HE'S GONE NOW BUT I'LL NEVER FORGET HIM. I WOULD BUY ANOTHER JUST LIKE HIM IF I COULD FIND ONE & WOULD PROBALLY PAY A FEW DOLLARS MORE. LOL LOL
MIKE

[Big Mike]

ARHA/UKC dogs for the most part are Grade dogs, so does that mean if I invest 15.00 bucks for single registation papers, that automaticly jacks up the price of the dog ?
I don't buy papers, I buy rabbit dogs. My concern is what they do when you unsnap that lead.

just one man's opinion

[blackdirt beagles]

most i paid for a grade dog (non akc) was $400 i think. most i ever sold one for was $350 or so. in my area, a "grade" dog is worth about 1/2 as much as an akc one. not that the papers mean anything, its just the demand here is higher if the dog is akc.

[Hare Hunter]

In the early Ninetys I paid 25 dollars for a grade female, she was one of the best snow dogs a guy could ever ask for. Only problem was she never produced a pup 1/2 as good as her, she was 13 years old the last winter I hunted over her and she was still the best dog on the ground. Hare

[JIMMIE ABSHIRE]

Cody Sharps Jackson and Cody Sharps Mikie nuff said

[island ridge hounds]

i guess between my uncles and myself we have been raising litters for
fifty years. once in a while we might have a akc hound. i'll have to agree
with the other gentlemen that say paper don't run the rabbit. we have
allways breed best to best, line bred and even inbred. i may not own any
world beaters but the hounds i run are more than worthy to take to the
woods and they are all grade hounds. i must say they all have nkc paper
on them. i haven't been around many akc hounds so its hard to have a
opinion on them, the one's that i have had, well lets just say i'll stick to
my grade hounds. as far as dollars on a hound i guess $250.00 is as high
as i've ever paid for grade hound but have sold some for as much as
$400.00.
bwall

[ANTHONY KERR]

My buddy Craig turned down 1,200 cash on the spot for a bluetick grade dog named Minnie. She was lightning in a bottle for him. She lived to be fourteen and ran like a young dog in her 12th year. Minnie would disappear from the rest of the pack and drive him crazy then all of a sudden chop chop chop there he goes. She had a mouth like an old Chrysler on a cold morning.
Anthony Kerr