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So you would be ok with them [gov] coming over and putting a device on your car to limit your speed to 35 miles an hour? Maybe they will have one that makes it impossible for you to have water in your house any hotter than 55 degrees. The government is messing with your property, what you own, and if you give these rights away other rights will follow.
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Don't get all bent at me I was just asking a question. How does this relate to my question?
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If the consumer has a choice to buy cheap imitation products they will spend less money for inferior dogs.
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Not always. IIRC I brought this up pages ago. The market for high end purebreds is changing. Perhaps I am incorrect here, but I look at these dogs similar to a Maserati or a Ferrari.
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Say you are buying a really good pedigreed female to start showing and breeding. In my breed that means $2500. On top of that the law in Maine will make it $650 per intact female who could even afford to have pets unless you spay them and you cannot show a neutered animal in conformation?
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Thats $650 per female breeding or female born? Which is it? What is the average litter size? If its 6 than the cost goes up about $110 per pup ... very nominal increase if $2500 per dog. Just trying to understand the numbers.
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None of the cost mentioned above include health care or feeding. What would the cost of a puppy be?
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Those are all constants costs and have no bearing here - you have to pay for all that either way.
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There will be people selling illegally because of these laws and people will find them and get their cheap poorly bred dogs from them. This is already happening.
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There will be more - I got that. Hard to calculate how many "more"