Star View Kennels

Ive had a wonderful experience meeting Danilou and picking out our puppy {Alfy}, in June 2014. He is an amazing doodle, reached a good height and weight, energetic and healthy.
Throughout the process of adoption, she has been very patient, answering all our questions and addressed all our concerns. We were sent home with all the paperwork and briefed on how to survive the first couple weeks adjusting to our new little guy. Alfy has been very healthy and loving and we will go back to her to get Alfy a little brother sometime next year.
I have bugged her the first couple weeks texting her with questions while training our puppy and she would reply within the same day everyday even though it wasn’t her responsibility anymore. Thank you Starview Kennels for giving us such a wonderful addition to our family.
Cheers
Lakshmi

THIS IS MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH STARVIEW KENNEL AND SHOULD NOT BE REMOVED! I HAVE EMAILS, TEXTS, RECEIPTS AND PHONE LOG TO PROVE IT!
(Please read reviews on Unilocal including ones that say, not recommended, located at the bottom of the page.) Disabled woman had very bad stressful experience with this puppy mill. Paid a $ 600 deposit in early March, 2015 and was promised a male or female puppy with dark coloring by end of May. Was told if color pref was not available, deposit would be returned. No pups at all until end of July and all were too white, so passed on them. Second litter came August 1. 4 females, 2/​dark. Choose dark one and still promised first choice of litter. Dark female promised but was told could not see it for 3 weeks. Followed rules and visited close to the 3^rd week and was told both dark ones were sold to someone who paid total amount upfront around August 12^th. Have been put through he** by owner who refused to return my money because she said she still had pups to pick from. I refused to settle and that went on for awhile. Then the next two excuses were no refund until she sold both litters and then next excuse was only if I agreed not to mention these things to anyone about her. I would only agree to not defame her with lies. This is all truths and got money back after she made me meet her and her friends in a bar parking lot 2 hours from home. Terrified sick! BUY FROM A REPUTABLE BREEDER… NOT THIS DISHONEST PUPPY MILL!

3 years ago I bought two puppies from star view kennel in Mt vernon. These two puppies are healthy and have brought us more joy and love than I would have ever imagined. I have been a dog owner my entire life and these Schichons have obviously been given a great foundation. I know that even good breeders can have a pup that has problems, but I saw a decent kennel on my three visits there.

I have a dog I got 5 years ago from Starview. He had vomiting issues from the time we got him. Sometimes 10 times in an evening. It was surprising to me that he grew. When I called Mary, she said «maybe he is sick!» Really, for 9 months? I Found her to be dismissive each time I called with concerns about his health. Then I ran into a woman I know who had a doodle of some sort from there and she said, «well it is obviously a puppymill» I had never considered that even though I could see her business growing from my first visit. My chichon has many of the behavioral issues listed in other reviews. He is fearful of most everything. He shrinks and cowers for no reason. He is loved so much by our entire family and he is very gentle and sweet with children. We love him but feel we and he got shortchanged by an outfit that breeds dogs with behaviors that are difficult and whose health is compromised. I would never buy another dog there nor recommend it to anyone. We feel we adopted a puppymill puppy despite the fact that we paid for him. BEWARE!

I recently purchased a Shichon from Star View Kennels in Mt. Vernon. I should say I ordered her even before she was born. Mary Lou kept me informed every step of the way. When my Eliza was a few days old I was able to visit the facility for the first time. I was amazes at the cleanliness of the kennel and the huge measures they took to insure that it stays that way. I also had occasion to visit my puppy a couple of more times before she was old enough to take home. I found the kennels just as spotless every time I was there.
When the happy day came to bring Eliza home, Mary Lou made sure that we had excellent instructions on how to care for her – everything from vaccinatins, worming, vitamins and good quality food. Eliza had been bathed, vacinated and ears and eyes were cleaned as well.
Eliza is an amazing puppy. I feel that she was well socialized before we brought her home and is basically just an all around well adjusted wonderful dog. I would highly recommend Star View Kennels to anyone wanting a great, healthy companion.

We got an AussieDoodle in 2009 and we love him. He is a healthy and wonderful new member of the family. We have recommended them to a few friends and all have nothng but good reviews about this place and their dogs.

I purchase a cavachon puppy from star view kennel several years ago and have come to realize that it is essentially a puppy mill in disguise. As much as I love my cavachon, I have had so many problems with her many allergy issues. It has gotten so bad that I have to keep her on Benadryl year around. She has food and environmental allergies. My vet has said that it is genetic in terms of breeding dogs that have these issues. The fact that they breed so many breeds, golden doodles, cavachons, and numerous other breeds is another good indication of their true operation. Do not buy puppies from this place!

Great experience with the owner, she really did a nice job helping us to choose, and teaching us the basics of raising a puppy for the first time. It really helped, and we came home with all the information we wanted and needed.
We’ve had our cavachon for 2 years now — she’s the most loving, cutest, energetic puppy ever. She is perfectly healthy, and tons of fun. She’s been hiking, kayaking, swimming, and visited much of the continental united states. She has really become part of our family, and love-​attacks whenever we’re gone for 30+ minutes.
We have had a really great experience with both the kennel, and our cavachon. Thank you Star View Kennels!

This is a more objective re-​write of an earlier review i wrote for this business. I purchased an 9 month old puppy from this kennel in March 2012. The breeder had evidently kept this pup thinking they might use him as breeding stock, but then had a change of plans. The pup was advertised as being healthy, well trained, housebroken, and of good quality. At the time i picked this pup up, i was unable to get a truly good look at his body shape as he was cowering and low to the ground like a slug. This was not a positive sign… but not uncommon either. However, once i got the pup home i (and or the Vet who examined the pup) found the following issues. The lower back area was nearly devoid of muscel – causing a sagging spine condition known as swayback that can lead to ruptured spinal discs, the dog had one hip that was substantially stiffer than the other hip, the dog had a urinary tract infection so serious that the penis was discharging a pus like substance that had accumulated to the point of entirely encrusting the tip of penis… it was a horrible and disgusting situation to carefully trim away this encrustation without severing part of the penis, The dog was infected with both Giardia and coccidia by the breeder’s own admission – i was given written instructions by the breeder on how to treat these infections at time i purchased dog. The dog also had fairly significant psychological issues… in particular because he had not been socialized or otherwise worked with enough during his early development, the dog… while not an agressive animal… was found to be prone to sudden panic and general fearfulness. A few times he has snapped at my girlfriend and even bitten, when trying to coax him out of his sleeping crate. This is common with fearful dogs who have not been socialized. However, this caused us significant stress when one of these minor bites broke the skin, as the breeder had also neglected to give this dog its rabies shots (WA state law requires dogs to be vaccinated against rabies by age of 6 months at latest – new law as of jan 2012) And thus we were put in the position of either having my girlfriend get an expensive an painful series of shots, or haveing the dog killed and brain examined for rabies, or lastly what we wound up doing, is just taking our chances that the dog likely dosn’t have rabies and hoping for the best. As stated, this was very stressful as its no fun wondering if you are going to come down with an incurable fatal disease. (Note that this bite happened before we had a chance to get the dog a rabies shot.) Lastly, the dog was not remotely housebroken as breeder claimed… we had easily a couple thousand dollars worth of damage to our hardwood flooring as urine seeped benearth floor boards. While it is possible the breeder did not know about some of these conditions, it is very unlikely that all went unoticed as this was an older puppy that they had been personally raising for themselves for over 8 months. As a customer, i would have been more than willing to extend the benefit of doubt for some of these concerns… but when taken cumulatively together, this is a fairly obvious case of an unethical breeder. It should be noted as well that i found this breeder to fall under the category of a puppy mill in my opinion. They are not outright abusive to their animals… but they do have a whole lot of dogs in small pens and seem to sell the pups they produce inexpensively and in volume. However, the dogs do at least seem to have good protection from the weather and they are not in cages stacked one on top of eachother… so its not something that should be shut down as animal cruelty either. Just a commercial mass producer of low grade dogs. As a former breeder i realize that its impossible to avoid selling pups with unknown problems from time to time and i really did try to give these people the benefit of the doubt… but this is an extreme case and there really is no doubt in my mind anymore. I sincerely hope this benefits anyone looking to buy from star view kennels… wish i had read the few negative reviews on the internet about this place before i bought.

I would have to preface this review with: I did my research on what kind of dog would suit our family, what should I look for in a breeder and that I spent over a year at a shelter looking for the pup of my dreams before deciding to get our puppy from another source other than a shelter. Unfortunately, I came across huge costs from breeders and I did not want to support any puppy mill. So I went to Star View Kennels because their pricing of their dogs was not outrageously high, they seemed to only have a couple of litters, I got to meet the parents of the puppies and saw their temperaments and the overall experience with the owner was alright. However, I should have stopped the process once I asked if I could bring the puppy back if he caused allergy problems for our family. She reassured me and said there will be no problems and I could not return the puppy after 1 – 3 days. But of course, I was already smitten with my Aussiedoodle and went home with him and a warning bell ringing in the back distance of my head. Well, this puppy has turned out to have more medical conditions than my children have and when I’ve called the breeder for any advise, they said sorry they didn’t have any and that they don’t have any information about the breed (even though they breed them!) and that they don’t have any websites to refer me to. They also went on to say that they have not heard of anything with the other aussiedoodles that they have sold. This dog is 1.5 years of age and has vomiting issues from the get go, and after many vet visits from red swollen eyes to nodules forming all over his body, we have discovered he has over 20 allergies to external conditions and food and he has seizures which the vet has stated is from distemper that he received PRIOR to him ever getting his shots so he believes he got it at the breeders before I picked him up at 7 weeks old. Needless to say, I love my dog and will do anything for him and we will continue to care for him with all his conditions but I do not wish this on anyone. This is a breeder who does not care about the puppies or their future so do not do business with them. And as far as I understand, allergies are congenital so they should not be breeding dogs that have these issues.