@ suzi
The prices dropped because of the bad economy here, but they usually cost between 1500 and 2000 euro's. Believe that's 2000 - 2500 $.
I haven't got a clue what we'll get now but it's between 750-1000 euro's now.
@Pssh
We have that with cats in here and in the summer there's dogs because people leave them somewhere when they go on vacation. Since we have a lot smaller country we don't really have an over population. Also we never have strays here on the streets, they will immediatly be picked up by animal ambulance and place in a shelter, where usually is enough space. Only the cats are a problem.
Maybe it's because everything is registred here, we also have to pay taxes for our dogs and dogs can always be traced down to their owners. So if they dump a dog when going on vacation, most of the time they are tracked and fined.
We can't have a crossing also of this kind of dog because then it would be an illegal mix, which they call pitbull, and they will put your animals down. That's why we need official breeders to have these sort of nice bulldogs. If you look around on our Dutch marketplace site you see a lot of crossings people can't get rid of, that's a problem. People can be so stupid. Any crossing between a bulldog or pitbull kind of dog that is NOT an official breed with papers and all, is an illegal dog here. Because of incidents in the past with aggression and stuff.