Find A Pet
20119 US-59
Humble, TX 77338
(832) 665-0292
Date and time of CAPS investigation: 1/6/26, 1628
Approximate number of puppies observed at time of investigation: 15 puppies
The facility had fifteen puppy enclosures set in a wall, like aquariums for puppies. There were one to two puppies per enclosure, and some were empty. Enclosures with puppies had a dog bed and/or a towel on the hard flooring, but about 75% of flooring space was empty. One or two toys were in enclosures, but no food or water was available for puppies while I was at the store. There were slits in rear walls, presumably for water bottles to be set through, but nothing was in them.
The enclosures had pieces of paper on their front windows with information about puppies, except the breeder and/or broker information was missing. Each paper had “Breeder: N/A” written on it.
Breed your Find A Pet puppy to one of their dogs
I spoke to employees at the store, who said that puppies start at $3,500 and that the “price is always more negotiable if you pay in full.” She said financing was available but claimed to not know anything about what companies they use. She said that the store offers a breeding program for female puppies, which described as a store buyer breeding their Find A Pet puppy to another dog, described as “one of ours.” She said I could then sell the litter to the store, adding, “So basically you’ll be making your money back, or you could become a local breeder.”
Puppy mills? No no no. Why not? We don’t know.
I stated that I wanted to ensure that their puppies aren’t coming from puppy mills. The employee assured me Find A Pet does use puppy mills, saying, “Oh yeah. No no no.” She stated, “We work with different breeders. We do not provide you with breeder information. But we do provide you with information about the parents, like if you want to see how the parents are and stuff like that. You can request it; it takes like forty-eight to seventy-two hours for them to send it to you. But you do get all that information.” I then asked, “Okay, so we couldn’t know who the breeder is to google him beforehand?” The employee said, “No, unfortunately not.”
I then asked if the employee knew if the store’s breeders keep dogs in cages or homes, how long they breed dogs for, and what happens to breeding dogs when they are no longer being bred. The employee said, “Yeah, no. Unfortunately, breeder information, they don’t discuss that with us. But they have been working with local breeders for quite some time. And it’s just different ones. They’re all local.
She clarified that she meant the breeders are all located in Texas, but added, Unless we can’t find, like, let’s say we do a special order, you’re looking for a specific French Bulldog, and you don’t like any of the ones that we start sending you, then they start looking ….” I then asked, “Do you know if they’re licensed? Like state or federal licensed? Do you know what I’m talking about?” She simply said, “No.”
Breeder information not given to customers but the puppies don’t come from puppy mills
I pushed her further since she had claimed the store doesn’t buy from puppy mills but admitted knowing nothing about the breeders. I asked, “Y’all don’t get from any puppy mills?” She said, “No.” I then asked again if she knew any specifics, like if breeding facilities are “big or small.” She told me, “Yeah honestly, they don’t discuss breeder information with us. But we can always give you information about the puppy’s parents and stuff like that. But that would be pretty much it, and you would have to request that upon purchase.”
