Cedar Pet Supply
5191 W Charleston Blvd #17
Las Vegas, NV 89146
(702) 344-0146
Date and time of CAPS investigation: 6/25/25; 12:50 pm PST
Approximate number of puppies observed at time of investigation: 14
As I walked into the store, I was immediately greeted by an employee, who asked if I was “looking for anything specific.” There were 18 stacked enclosures all along the left side of the store, housing a total of 14 dogs, one to two to an enclosure. Each enclosure had a glass front, bars in the back, and a hard floor covered with paper shredding. The store also had two ferrets, two chinchillas, and three to four guinea pigs housed in enclosures in the store floor area. Along the back wall were glass tanks with amphibians and reptiles. The store did not have a visible notice informing customers of breeder and other puppy-related information available as required by Nevada law.
I spent some time walking around the store and looking at the animals, eventually playing with a Dachshund and an Italian Greyhound in the play areas. After playing with the dogs, I approached the employee to inquire about them. The Dachshund was $3,500 and the Italian Greyhound was $3,800. The employee informed me the dogs come “papered, pedigreed” and with a “long list of guarantees” including vaccines, microchipped, and dewormed; the dogs have a “20-day viral” covering 100% of medical expenses if a puppy gets sick within 20 days of purchase. He also noted that the puppies come with a 2-year health warranty covering certain surgeries up to the purchase price of the puppy, and if the puppy passed away within the first year due to something genetic or hereditary, the customer would receive a 100% store credit towards another puppy and 50% if the dog passed away within two to 12 years.
The employee asked if I was “making moves today” to purchase a dog, transitioning to talk about financing and payment plans they offer, working with five different vendors. The employee eventually showed me the Dachshund’s “certified pedigree.”
I then asked whether the dogs come from local breeders. The employee informed me they come from out-of-state breeders, saying they come from Utah, Iowa, and Missouri. When I asked if the breeders are puppy mills, the employee said the store has a “no puppy mill promise,” and the breeders are “private, reputable breeders that have their own operations” and they also work with “companies, that kind of thing.”
The employee said the owners of the store visit the breeders to buy puppies and do the transfers of the puppies themselves, driving them to their three stores in Utah and three stores in Nevada. I then expressed concern over socialization in a puppy’s early years, and the employee said that is why the puppies are with their parents for the first eight weeks of their life. Then, when the puppies arrive in the store, they are “with their friends” and interact with and play with people in the stores.
When asked what happens to mothers after they are done being bred and how often they are bred, the employee said he was not sure about that and that they do not get too much information about that. The employee said he understood my concern and said it is necessary to be “on it with some of these places.”
I then asked what paperwork the puppies come with, and the employee informed me they come with “their pedigree, their medical, their health disclosure and feeding instructions.” The employee spent some time looking at the included paperwork and then went onto his computer to look at something.
I asked the employee if he had any breeder information for the two puppies I saw and he said yes, pulling up the information on his computer. After taking a picture of the breeder information on the computer screen with the employee’s permission, I asked what the USDA registration meant and what the USDA did and if the USDA did periodic checks. The employee said he was “pretty sure” it was done like “running a restaurant, a health inspector comes in.”
I then asked to see breeder information for the second puppy, and the employee showed me the information on screen and allowed me to take a picture. I expressed concern about the puppy’s origins and health. He said there were “a lot of cases out here in Vegas, that’s why they’re cracking down.” The employee said “anytime anything online” comes up, they “show everything” because “they take care of the animals here.” I talked a little bit more about puppy health and financing, and I asked if they get cats, to which the employee said they are working with some breeders to get cats. I then left the store.
Breeder and broker names obtained during investigation
The following were obtained from paperwork on individual puppies in the store’s software system, shown to me by a store employee:
Jean Bos, JB Kennels, 4951 Grant Ave, Maurice, IA, 42-A-1608, 42 adults and 62 puppies at 8/16/24 USDA inspection. Teachable moment for rusty metal feeders at 7/29/21 USDA inspection (Italian Greyhound)
Select Puppies, 1215 215th Ave, West Point, IA, 42-B-0314 (see below)
Jeff Wilson, J Bar J Kennel, 16920 Gazelle Drive, Neosho, MO, 43-A-6297, 152 adults and 115 puppies at 6/9/25 USDA inspection (Dachshund)
Select Puppies, 1215 215th Ave, West Point, IA, 42-B-0314 (see below)
Broker names obtained from 2025 Certificates of Veterinary Inspection
Select Puppies, West Point, IA, 42-B-0314, 156 puppies at 12/18/24 USDA inspection. 195 puppies at 7/20/23 USDA inspection; 2.125(b) violation at 6/27/23 USDA inspection: A responsible adult was not available to accompany APHIS Officials during the inspection process at 11:05am on 27-June-2023. Employees at the facility stated the licensee was currently out-of-town and no one else at the facility was available to conduct an inspection. A facility of this size should have manager who is able to accompany an inspector. 265 puppies at 3/31/22 USDA inspection; 237 puppies at 3/15/ USDA inspection; 441 puppies at 1/6/21 USDA inspection
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First Class Puppies. Bluejacket, OK, 73-B-1866, 5 adults, and 45 puppies at 7/23/25 USDA inspection. Violations included not providing adequate space and exercise and not having an exercise plan
QD Kennels, Frankfort, MO, 43-B-3773, 38 puppies at 6/28/24 USDA inspection
Evidence contradicting statements made by the employee
“No puppy mill promise”
The employee’s claims of a “no puppy mill promise” and that the store works with “private, reputable breeders” is false. CAPS investigations of breeders selling to Select Puppies, one of the largest dog brokers in the country, clearly show that the breeders run puppy mills.
Breeders are in Utah
The employees claim that breeders are in Utah is incorrect. USDA-licensed breeders (puppy mills) and brokers are located primarily in the Midwest. David Salinas owns three pet shops in Utah.
Misleading statements about socialization of puppies
The employees allegation that socialization is the reason why the puppies are with their parents for the first eight weeks of their life is misleading. Puppies are with their parents during this time only because USDA regulations prohibit breeders and brokers from transporting puppies under eight weeks of age. However, CAPS has dealt with consumers whose veterinarians informed them that their pet shop puppy was less than eight weeks. In addition, puppies being “with their friends” and interacting with and playing with people in the stores is not true socialization. Puppies lives in small enclosures and don’t get to play outside in the fresh air with people and other puppies. They are subjected to bright lights and people constantly staring at them and holding them. A pet shop environment provides too much stimulation for young puppies.
Owners of the store visit the breeders and transport the puppies
The employee’ claim that the owners of the store visit the breeders to buy puppies and do the transfers of the puppies themselves, driving them to their stores is false. The Puppy Store and Cedar Pet Supply pet shops, which are owned and operated by David Salinas in Nevada and Utah (and formerly California, where a CAPS lawsuit stopped the sale of fraudulent rescue puppies in violation of the state’s retail ban law) buy most of their dogs through licensed brokers such as Select Puppies. Salinas-owned stores – he owned 10 pet shops in California, Nevada and Utah in 2019-2020 – have also sourced puppies through large broker J.A.K.’s Puppies in Britt, Iowa, which buys from puppy mills.
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