Belgian Malinois Price Guide · Straight Talk from an Expert

How Much Does a Belgian Malinois Cost?

Anyone can hang a "Belgian Malinois for Sale" sign. As with any popular breed, grifters and peddlers are everywhere. All Belgian Malinois are not the same. All Belgian Malinois are not priced the same. Here's the straight talk on what a good one costs, and why.

A Belgian Malinois from the world's finest genetic material starts at $5,500 for a puppy whose parents have significant accomplishments. Add award-winning training and the price runs from $10,000 for a young, obedience-trained adolescent up to $95,000 for a dog that's as good as it gets. Generally speaking, $10,000 to $25,000 will provide you a very high-quality adolescent, and $45,000 to $65,000 will provide a premium personal or family protection dog.

Why One Malinois Costs $1,500 and Another Costs $60,000

You'll see Malinois puppies advertised online for a thousand or two. You'll also see trained protection Malinois priced like a luxury car. Both prices can be honest. They're different products, built on different genetics and different work.

A cheap puppy is a gamble on genetics nobody has proven. A trained protection dog is the end of a long road — the right breeding, years of daily work, and a trainer who knows the difference between a dog that can protect your family and one that looks like it can.

Protection dogs are born. Training brings out what the genetics put there. It can't create what isn't there. A puppy is potential. A trained dog is a finished product. The difference in price is years of daily work and the judgment to know which dog is worth it.

When you buy quality, you only cry once.

What You're Paying For

• Genetics most people can't get. Our breeding relationships were built over decades at the top of the sport.
• Selection. Most dogs, even from great breedings, don't make the cut as protection dogs. We only train and place the ones that do.
• Years of work. Breeding, raising, socialization, obedience and protection training, plus nutrition and veterinary care.
• A system that wins. Training methods proven against the best trainers in the world.
• A personal match. We learn your lifestyle, your home and your security needs before we place a dog.
• Evaluation. Every dog is evaluated by my staff for temperament and working ability.

The Problem With a Cheap Malinois

The Malinois has become popular, and popularity brings people breeding them for the money. There are Malinois that are hyper, unstable and unmanageable. There are Malinois that are exactly what a family needs — steady, calm and manageable. The difference is genetics, training and the expert who picks the dog. We're the experts.

That's the job of an experienced trainer. Our team evaluates every individual dog, and that judgment is a big part of what you're paying for. A $1,500 dog that turns out to be the wrong dog is the most expensive dog you'll ever own.

Malinois or German Shepherd? Same Price, Same Standard

We price Belgian Malinois and German Shepherds the same way — by age and level of training. Either breed can be the most awesome dog in the world or the most useless. What matters is the individual dog, not the breed name.