I totally agree with you there Rosie, you can't make a living from it and tbh shouldn't think that way anyway. Our 1st litter we hardlys made any profit. The bitch had to have a c-section which cost £470 then she got a really bad case of sickness and you no what!! That cost £85.00, then one pup had died inside of her, one pup was also born with a hare lip and we kept her in the family as we did not believe with "putting her to sleep" we thought we would give her a chance and i bottle fed her from day one every 2 hours for the 1st 3 weeks so i was absoloutely knackered going into work and my mam had to come up through the day and do it, she is fine now but her vet bills to correct her mouth has cost £600 in total (upto now!), she is a little miracle bless her (she's 7 months old now) then we had to register 5 pups which all in all I think it cost me about £100 as I got the 5 generation pedigree certificates for the new owners. Then once the puppies go onto solids i was buying, eggs, tuna, mince, mixer biscuits, goats milk etc and was spending about £10 to £15 per week on that for 5 weeks, then the soap powder and cleaning products to clean their blankets and cage etc etc etc the list goes on. So no you dont make that much of a proffit and it is very very hard work especially if the pups dont get rehomed as soon as they turn 8 weeks. This has happened on this litter we had 3 pups that were 4 months old before 2 of them have been rehomed, I am still left with one little boy! People do make me laugh when they say they will breed to make a living out of it bo**oc*ks is what i say