Just wondered what the 'average' cost is for a rescue dog, now? A friend at my club (Midland Counties GSD Club - Derby) took on a GSD puppy yesterday. The cost was £160. This covered worming, micro-chip, vaccinations & 50% off the cost of neutering. I know different organisations vary, but I was wondering what the average cost is now?

5 years ago at Manchester Dogs Home it was £50 for a mongrel £70 for a pedigree.  Dogs were vaccinated, wormed and chipped.  Neutering was strongly recommended but not checked or enforced.  The kennel cough was free!!

One of the best decisions we ever made - I would have paid more but was happy with our mongrel price :)

you need to contact the rescues.
there are a few hundred of them independant to each other.

its like asking how much do travel agents charge for a holiday to bermuda

A rescue near me is charging £140 but for dogs that are more difficult to home due to age or mistreatment issues they just ask for a donation.

My local dogs home charges £90 a dog but we got ours for £40 as he had alot of medical problems and they couldnt afford to pay them as they were a charity, they had him for three weeks before we found him, like a sever eye ulcer, severly underweight and really bad teeth with four baby teeth still there at the age of 4 and dodgy back legs. He is never going to be a healthy dog but we couldnt leave him there to suffer :-( We called the vet on the way home from the dogs home and got an emergency appointment and he had to have a drip of fluid before we even got him home as he was so ill.

10 years ago I paid £60 for my BC from a small local charity, she was emaciated, wormy, flea infested, un-spayed and un-vaccinated, she was in a terrible state emotionally and we would have paid more. Now she's a sleek, speed demon with a cheeky nature so it was worth every penny. :)

Samoyed Rescue charges up to one year £160.00 1-3 yrs £140.00 3-6 £120.00 6yrs and over £90.00 - £100.00
This is todays prices, a well breed Samoyed puppy costs Approx £800.00 - £1000.00
So it is a fair price, also remember the money goes to the running cost of the Rescue, as at the S. Ass. they all work voluntrary.
I was told the dogs home charges were approx £150,00 per dog.

Denese

My breed welfare doesn't 'charge' as such, but asks for a donation of a minimum of £100.

We ask for a donation too, but don't fix an amount, that is up to the adopter.  We also offer to take responsibility for ongoing vet treatment if there is an existing condition which requires routine medication (eg dry eye, epilepsy etc).   Haved had donations of anything from £5 to £100.

I can understand why rescues charge but I can also see why rescues have problems rehoming dogs as it would be cheaper for may people to look on free ad sites and buy a private rehoming in some cases

£105 here

Our breed rescue is also min £100 donation 

Same here :)

it would be cheaper for may people to look on free ad sites and buy a private rehoming

Not in the long run. My rescue charges £60. And you get all vaccines, de-worming and de-flea, neuter, collar and lead and pack of food. If someone were to get a free dog in the papers especially a puppy they would pay far more than £60 by the time they got all that done.
Free puppies are a false economy. As we vet check all puppies before they go and if they have anything on going such as medication or maybe a bout of runny poo.....the people are given the option to take them home while we cover treatment or to leave pup/dog in centre until they are cleared up.  IF you got a free pup from the paper chances are good it would have something wrong....even if it were a simple enough case of heavy worm burden or kennel cough.  At least if you get from most rescues you have more of a chance for a comeback should puppy/dog be unwell....:-)

My Rio was 110 and pups are 160

Louise

The RSPCA was charging £200 for a rescue labrador.

The RSPCA was charging £200 for a rescue labrador.

What!!! with all the health probs the RSPCA say beset pedigrees they should be giving them away and offering to pay for any treatment the dogs need, and I hope they hipscore and eyetest before offloading the 'unhealthy pedigrees' on the unsuspecting owners! (tongue very firmly in cheek)

Angela

:-)

I can understand why rescues charge but I can also see why rescues have problems rehoming dogs as it would be cheaper for may people to look on free ad sites and buy a private rehoming in some cases

I don't think so actually. With the exception of Staffies it seems (which we did not want) it appears that these days, there is no such thing as a free or cheap dog sold privately. Two years ago I was searching for an adult dog for my mother in law. She is disabled so cannot walk a dog, and she lives in a granny flat in our house and we have lots of dogs of our own.Obviously the rest of us would walk her dog. However this meant that the RSPCA, Dogs Trust etc would to accept my MIL as a potential owner. Hence I spent a LOT of time (many weeks) searching adverts both on the internet and in newspapers and magazines, checking ads in vet surgeries and supermarkets etc etc. I found that EVERYONE was charging a lot. It no longer mattered if it was a 5 year old mongrel, because a 5 year old mongrel could be described as a "poopoodoodoleheinz103" or anything equally silly and was therefore suddenly rare and worth money. If it wasn't spayed or neutered, worth even MORE, because then it could be bred form and used to create new "breeds". I found most ads charged around £300 upwards even for mature mongrels. My MIL could not afford that.

In the end we went to the local council stray kennels (they just sell dogs, ask no questions at all), found a wonderful Labrador bitch and paid £100 for her.