how much did you pay for your dog?

Pado wrote:Frank was all of $80 USD ... $15 adoption fee, $50 Neuter Fee and $15 for his chip - Comes out to about £50. Hey, he was on sale

He was in a very small shelter up in the back hills and had been there for almost a month - His advert on the petfinders website was "Running out of time". He was a young woman's dog who moved back in with her mother with her new born infant. The mother didn't want a dog in her house so brought Frank to a vet clinic and said she found him. The young woman came looking for him when she found out but he had been sent to the animal shelter. When she inquired at the shelter they told her she had to pay all his care and bills etc. She didn't have the money and said her boyfriend had paid a small fortune for him as he was a rare "MINI PITBULL" and she demanded him back. The officer told us there was no such thing as a Mini Pit and there was no way in hell he was handing him over to her and from their conversation and his experience said she was the type of person who shouldn't own a pitbull and he would in his opinion end up back at the shelter.

Frank was listed for adoption as a Pug Cross. When we inquired on him we were told he was in fact probably crossed with a Pitt ( I remember thinking, I hope the Mom was the Pitt ). He was such a cool dude we adopted him.

We later found out from watching the Crufts dog show he might be part Staffordshire Bull Terrier ( a breed we had never heard of) - the dog we saw on the show was a dead ringer for Frank so we figured he must be part.

While traveling with Frank one day we stopped at a Gas Station - we opened the back hatch to the Jeep as we were pumping gas so Frank could get some air.... an attendant came over and asked if that was a Stafford, we said we suspected he might be part - and said that the manager of the station was a retired Stafford breeder ... the guy went off to get him.

An elderly English gentleman appeared and was very surprised to see Frank and hear his story - he said he bred Staffords for 30 years but had since retired but still kept them - He told us SBT are not very well known in the US and he was surprised we found him in the shelter. The entire time we talked he was working Frank over. He said, just so you know you found a gem here and the best dog you'll ever own - this isn't a cross its a full Stafford. He went on to tell us that some very unscrupulous people are breeding SBT's and selling them at outrageous prices as Mini Pit Bulls. To say the least we were Gob'smacked.