Reports that Premier Mike Baird and Deputy Premier and Dubbo MP Troy Grant are considering offering $1500 per dog have been laughed off by Mr Stiff as inadequate.

He said any pup that is born is worth a minimum of $3000 because of the cost of semen straws and insemination and their value only increases from there.

He added that by the time a greyhound is getting close to racing, an owner has spent between $5000 and $7000 to raise them.

“If Mike Baird and Troy Grant think we are going to cop $1500 for a greyhound, they don’t know anything,” Mr Stiff said. “I don’t know any person in the industry who would accept that price and at Dubbo there wouldn’t be too many dogs that would be worth less than $2000-$3000.”

Mr Stiff said he had one dog that he had sent to Western Australia that had won its fifth race from five starts. He said he fielded an offer of $50,000 for the dog on Wednesday morning.

“If he was here, I would have to take $1500 for him. It’s not good enough,” he said.

Pups from one of his litters that was born recently had attracted offers of up to $10,000, Mr Stiff said.

Reports of coalition MPs asking Mr Baird and Mr Grant to either delay or abolish the plan to ban the greyhound industry were accurate, Mr Stiff said, and there was support for MPs who crossed the floor during the vote.

“They’re not just rumours, they’re definitely not rumours. I have spent a lot of time at Parliament House and government MPs are asking a lot of questions,” he said.

“Katrina Hodgkinson, Kevin Humphries and Chris Gulaptis are good people and good politicians and there is plenty of support for them.

Mr Stiff said he was interested to see what the outcome of the Orange by-election would be and expected it would deliver a strong message to the government.