My Nonprofit Reviews
user50
Review for North Star Foundation, Storrs, CT, USA
Shady business practices and misappropriation of funds. This foundation operates like a pyramid scheme. They use families' monies to pay their existing obligations, not to deposit dogs for individual children as they claim. Be prepared to pay your trainer yourself, because we had to after she hadn't been paid in four months, and threatened to quit. Their Dogs have no AKC registration, and no health guarantees either. Ours had hip displasia which was never detected, and has suffered for years because of it. As a result, she was unable to assist our child after a few years, and had to be retired as a family pet.
In our 275 North Star placements in progress, I do not have one case of hip dysplasia, as our pedigree is so clean (you can check this out on this link from our website: http://www.northstardogs.com/history-of-north-star-dogs/), and I actually think you're the one that is being shady. I very seldom put deposits down on pups to serve as North Star dogs, as we strive to only use pups from our own lines and so your accusation of where I'm supposedly misusing funds is obviously wrong. I have to doubt your own veracity behind your anonymity, as I have never once refused to offer an operation to correct hip dysplasia in one of our pups, and that's because none of our pups have been diagnosed with hip dysplasia with a strong genetic base (ie, those case detected before age two, as any overweight or overexercised dog may eventually develop hip dysplasia despite excellent breeding). Submit proof of your claims or stop slandering us. Patty Dobbs Gross, North Star
