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Originally Posted by mambolady  I said you were wrong about this poster being a phony because you all were talking about people coming on and posting one time to say Star was a good place. She came on and made her statement (doesn't matter what that statement was) because I told her what was being said and she felt she should say something. I didn't tell her to do it. I didn't force her to do it. She's an adult and did it on her own. You were wrong in that she wasn't put up to it by Star. If you read what she said carefully and instead of immediately just jumping to what was wrong with Star, she gave you what she saw and how she felt honestly. Do you really think she would have mentioned the bottle feeding puppies if she thought that was wrong? Think about it. Your reply was good info, your attitude was not good, it was mean and hurtful to a super nice person.
And I'm still waiting for someone to point out about the puppy parties. This really kills me in that you accuse people, anyone, of taking little tiny puppies to a party to make money off of it. Where does it say that? I have been looking at this site for months, as I said b/4 and have never read anything about a puppy party, yet your last post, this last post we are talking about, you bring it up as a current item.
Could it be that you saw a picture of a young dog with a birthday hat on it and assumed this was what you call a puppy party? Did the lady in the picture look like a kid? How did you all decide these people were holding puppy parties and making money? I really wish you would tell me. I told you, I was serious, if you provide proof of them being a puppy mill, or abusing puppies or animals, I live here. I would try to do something about it.
But I truly think you saw this picture and your imaginations ran wild when all it is is a lady sharing a picture of her dog she got from them on his first birthday and the cute fun she and her friends had. |
No one can provide "proof" that they are mills unless they were investigated and exposed, which is most likely never going to happen. Plus, what defines a mill to some may not define a mill to others. I'm not even sure if there is a law with specific wording about what constitutes one.
However, we can point out red flags and bad practices and from that draw conclusions of our own opinions. People have done that here. I personally find many things to be wrong with this site and I would never EVER buy from them.
IMO they are not good breeders. Whether they are mill or not doesn't matter to me (although I personally think they are, but that is my opinion). It doesn't matter if they have puppy parties or not. As I said before and you acknowledged, THEY HAVE BUY THIS PUPPY NOW BUTTONS. That is just wrong, period end of story. They also ship their pups. I find shipping pups to be a poor practice. IMO a good breeder would NEVER ship their pups off to some random person over the internet. In addition, IMO shipping is cruel to the pup. The puppy parties are irrelevant at this point, at least to me.
My final conclusion and opinion: They are not a good place to buy a pup from.
Like I said earlier, you can take the advice provided here and use it however you like. If you want to ignore it and buy a pup from there, go right ahead. If you want to continue to pick apart arguments against Star, that is fine as that is your stance.
In the end, it is all up to the individual to decide what they will do. Buyer beware.