How much do Brittany Spaniels cost? [2024 Pricing]

The past few years have seen fluctuations in the amount of money people are charging for Brittany puppies. Breeders will blame this on a variety of factors, ranging from pandemic-related supply-and-demand to inflationary costs.

There was a recent heated debate on one of the online discussion groups about what constitutes a reasonable price for a Brittany puppy. Martha Greenlee of Piney Run Kennel had what I feel was the best response:

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“I divide Brittanys into two groups - working dogs and everything else.

If you buy a working puppy (i.e. a field dog) and he doesn’t hunt or won’t be competitive, you sell him and buy another puppy. Working puppies should not command high prices because their talents are unknown.

If you buy a pet dog you will pay more because you will keep this dog forever regardless of his talents.

Working puppy prices need to stay low so you have somewhere to go. THE PRICE FOR A FINISHED DOG SHOULD DRIVE THE PUPPY PRICE.

I’m just throwing these numbers out there as an example. What is the price for:

A puppy - $1000-$1500

A started puppy - $1500-$2000

A started derby - $1750-$2500

A green broke dog - $2500 - $3000

A finished dog - $3000-$4000

You can see how crazy it becomes when you start with a 9-week-old puppy valued at $1500. And what about the work you invested in training? If your puppy price starts out too high, you have nowhere to go.

Sadly, it is pet pricing and greed that is driving our market, not the working dog.”

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The breeders that use Gil at stud are free to set their own puppy prices, but I typically steer them toward the lower end of the scale above. It’s a fair price for a pup out of hard-hunting, health-tested parents, but it is less than what is charged by some who spend tens of thousands of dollars campaigning their show dogs, and is much less than those whose asking price is whatever the pet market will bear.