SouthernStar Kennels

09/16/2025

Twisted Wear N Accessories

08/18/2025

Puppy go home day is so bittersweet. On one hand its great that they get to go brighten the lives of other families, and get to start their new lives, but in the other hand you get so attached to them.

06/11/2025

We are not, have never been, and never will be associated with the doodle breeder in Bell Florida. Just because they seem to share our name does not mean we associate with them, or any other doodle breeder. WE have a kennel name registered with AKC. WE are a registered sole proprietorship, listed with the state. They do not have either. The other SouthernStar is a BYB that features doodles. We have purebred, ethically bred Malamutes. Please get the correct website if you are searching for us.. Thank you.

Where Stars Are Born

05/28/2025

What happens when you rabidly follow the adopt don't shop mantra? Let's see.

You are villainizing ethical breeders who are breeding carefully selected dogs that are proven to fit the breed standard, are free of genetic diseases that they can pass onto their puppies, shortening lifespan and destroying quality of life. You are turning your back on breeders that care deeply about each and every puppy they produce. The ones that carefully vet and screen potential buyers and ensure they are suitable owners for their breed and their dogs. You are trashing on breeders who require that if you cannot keep your dog, you return your dog to the breeder or have the breeder help you find another suitable home. You know, the breeder who prides himself or herself on not having puppies enter the shelter system or rescues. You are demonizing buyers who want a puppy with a predictable temperament and personality, buyers who want to know exactly how big their puppy will get, what coat type their puppy will have, and other traits that are critical to people.

Instead, you are glorifying the backyard breeders and puppy mills who are irresponsibly mass producing puppies that will end up dumped in a shelter or rescue. You are saying that these people deserve homes for their irresponsibly bred genetic nightmares deserve homes more than the puppies produced by the first group of breeders.

You are also glorifying the retail rescues that go overseas, purchase puppy mill dogs by the tens of thousands, import them, (often illegally with forged veterinarian paperwork), invent sob stories about meat market and street dogs, and sell these nightmares for thousands of dollars each.

The fact is, that if ethical breeders are not demonized and villainized, they would produce more puppies. As it is, the vast majority of puppies that an ethical breeder produces end up in pet homes, not show, breeding or working homes. If you leave these breeders alone and let them produce sound, well bred, predictable puppies, they would have more puppies for pet homes.

What would this accomplish? Mainly, if people can go to an ethical breeder to get a well bred puppy, they won't be shopping for backyard bred or mill puppies, or retails rescues and their fabricated sob stories. If ethical breeders are free to advertise and educate freely, novice buyers would choose to go to ethical breeders to get their puppies versus someone down the road whose dog had a random litter of puppies. This would do a great deal to close the market to byb and puppy mills. This is the best way for the general public to do away with byb and mills. This would also force retail rescues to stop importing dogs by the millions to fill shelters.

Oh, and "adopt" is not the correct term for acquiring a rescue dog. You give the shelter or rescue money, so you still purchased a dog. I am NOT saying rescue dogs don't deserve homes. But I'm saying that people are villainizing the wrong breeders. Leave the ethical breeders alone, learn from them, forward their messages, be a part of an actual feasible solution.

Adopt OR shop, but do so responsibly.

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05/25/2025

We have not been very active on social media due to a lot of personal issues. But things are calming down and we are planning to be back in the show rings this summer and fall. Those who know what we have been dealing with and are praying for us are greatly appreciated.

10/03/2024

We have had 2 exciting birthdays this week. Drama turned 2 years old Wednesday, and daddy Charger turned 4 years Tuesday. Now to finish Dramas health testing up. She's had all her genetics but we need to get hips, elbows, patellas, cardiac, and eyes done. Pending passing we have selected the stud dog for her first litter.

02/03/2024

On December 28, just days after Christmas, our family endured a crisis that no family should ever have to endure. After a diagnosis of iron poisoning leading to multi organ failure, we were told that 14-year-old Kylee's only hope was a liver transplant, and even then there were no guarantees. Her condition was so severe that she was moved to the top of the transplant list. She has been in the PICU, fighting for her life since December 30. She recieved her new liver January 14 and is doing better, but is still nowhere near out of the woods. The doctors cannot give any sort of promises, because they say to thos date, nobody in history has ever survived iron poisoning to this extent. We are in uncharted waters now, doctors and nurses, doing theor best to keep her stable and get her better. We are still facing likely months and months of hospitalization, all kinds of therapies, possibly for years, and a lifetime of complication risks. The children's hospital she is in is almost 100 miles from our house. Her dad has been by her side and therefore is temporarily out of work. Medical bills are piling up, living expenses are accumulating, and the cost of gas and tolls is not decreasing.

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01/18/2024

We have opened up reservations for stud service to Charger. Please visit our website and check out stud service page or inbox for more information about requirements. Book early because we are only allowing breedings to 10 outside girls.

09/27/2023

I know many of you were eagerly anticipating news of a litter between Charger and Zia. However, due to circumstances beyond my control, that was halted. Zia had to be retired as a breeding dog before we ever got a litter. I have received a lot of hate messages about the situation, and a lot of accusations about being a scam because I do not have a current breeding girl. I really don't care. I made a choice that can be hard to make, but was the right one for us. People will trash talk you regardless of the choices you make. The dog world is not for the faint of heart or for snowflakes. My dog means more to me than a uterus and what she does in the whelping box.