Soares Farm Kennels

I just found this Kennel in our 10 yr old male golden retrievers health file. I am thrilled we kept this info! I had forgotten and thought we’d never remember. Our golden is one of the best dogs in the entire world! He has been so healthy his whole life! Getting him was the best decision we ever made. I wish we could clone him.

this place is a total puppy mill. first of all, i called ahead to let «kurt» know that we were coming by and then, as we got close i called again for more specific directions and «kurt» never picked up. we rang four or five more times to find out which «structure» was actually his– you have to go to the end of soares farm road which is actually a dirt road that winds behind several houses and ends in front of four ramshackle structures. there were goats and chickens wandering around.
as soon as we got out, all we could hear was the barking of dogs and puppies. we finally got «kurt» to answer the phone and he wandered out of one of the buildings with straw stuck in his hair. it looked like he had just rolled out of bed. inside one of the structures was a row of stalls, each filled with a mother dog and a litter. all different kinds of mixes, and the dad’s wandered around outside barking. there were no little agility courses or toys anywhere in sight to engage the attention of the male dogs who all looked to be in various stages of ill health.
stall after stall of goldendoodles, puggles, labradoodles and almost any kind of «designer» mix you can think of. «kurt» was not knowledgable at all about the dogs; when we asked how often a particular beagle mother had been bred he looked blankly at us then said, «oh she is about four, so she’s probably had about three litters». you could literally see the wheels turning in his head trying to figure out the least offensive number. but given the disgusting conditions at the farm it was hard to believe anything he said; more like, 3 litters a year.
it was so hard to walk away from there knowing that there was suffering occurring at such an enormous scale, but i don’t have enough money to buy all the dogs and i would not buy even one to «rescue» it because what i would actually be doing would be supporting their horrendous breeding practices. i fully expect to see this place and «kurt» on a «60 minutes» expose or some other news expose.