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American Bully Puppy Price
What a puppy costs at eight to twelve weeks specifically, how the price moves with age, and why a discounted older puppy is often the best buy in the litter.
An American Bully puppy typically costs $1,500 to $3,500 at eight to twelve weeks, and prices usually fall as a puppy gets older and stays unsold. Mine are $700 at every age, because I don’t price by week and I don’t discount a puppy for being the one nobody picked.
How the market prices a puppy by age
| Age | Typical market price | What is going on |
|---|---|---|
| 6 to 7 weeks | Highest asking price | Too young to leave. Avoid |
| 8 to 12 weeks | Peak legitimate price | The normal window. Most demand |
| 3 to 5 months | Often discounted 20 to 40% | Unsold puppies. Frequently good value |
| 6 months and up | Discounted heavily | Sold as "started". Check socialisation |
| Adult, retired from breeding | Low or a rehoming fee | Can be an excellent buy |
Nothing legitimate is sold at six or seven weeks. A puppy that leaves the litter before eight weeks misses learning bite inhibition and canine social behaviour from its littermates, and that has lasting effects. It’s also illegal in many states. A seller offering a six-week-old puppy is telling you what kind of seller they are.
Why the older puppy is often the better buy
A four-month-old that hasn’t sold is usually unsold for a reason that has nothing to do with the dog: an unfashionable colour, or it was the quiet one in a litter of extroverts, or the photographs were poor. It’s frequently the steadiest animal in the group.
What you must check at that age is socialisation, because the critical window runs to about sixteen weeks. Ask what the puppy has actually met: people, traffic, other dogs, different surfaces, a car. A four-month-old raised in a house is a great buy. A four-month-old that has spent four months in a run is a project.
Mine are raised indoors with the family from birth, so the ones still here at four months have had four months of it rather than none.
Why I don’t move the price
Two reasons. Pricing by week means a breeder starts to need a puppy gone by a certain date, and that pressure ends up placing dogs in households that weren’t right. And discounting the last puppy tells that buyer they took the leftover, which is both untrue and a poor way to start.
$700 at nine weeks, $700 at five months, $700 whatever the colour and whatever the class. Delivery is quoted separately by distance and nothing is added at the end.
The full market picture and first-year costs · Why the number is $700 · Lifetime cost
Ask about any of them
Including the ones that have been here longest. They’re frequently the steadiest and they’re the same price.