Petland Overland Park
7911 W 151st St
Overland Park, KS 66223
(913) 557-8608
Date and time of CAPS investigation: 6/21/26, 1206
Approximate number of puppies observed at time of investigation: 40
Canine Care Certified promotion in the store
An entire wall of the store had puppy enclosures set inside it. The enclosures resembled aquariums, with slatted floorings, water bottles, and a couple of dog toys. A few of the enclosures had raised platforms inside that resembled small, plastic-floored beds. There were 22 enclosures in total, one row of them set over another. Most were occupied and had one to three puppies each. Signs were placed between the rows promoting the American Kennel Club and advertising financing for new puppies. Above the enclosures were TVs showing dogs and puppies running in huge, grassy yards.
A banner was on one end of the puppy wall, right beside the store window, with a Purdue University symbol and a Canine Care Certified symbol at the top. Below, it read: “A ‘Win-Win’ for Breeders. Show your commitment to better animal welfare. Sign up for Canine Care Certified today.”
Employees claimed that breeding dogs run around in grassy yards
I inquired about two puppies, a Pug and Keeshond. An employee said that they cost $6,849 and $5,249 respectively. I was told that financing was available, and that the Petland credit card has an APR that is usually 5-20% but can be as high as 35%. Two employees explained that the store’s breeders are either Canine Care Certified (CCC) or on the way to becoming CCC. One employee said that within the last two to three years, the store had become heavily dedicated to CCC. One worker explained CCC as, “So essentially, Canine Care is just something that ensures the puppies are getting like top tier level care that they need. So, it’s essentially just like a breeder, but it assures that they get socialized, get places to run around and not like a mill.” She showed me pictures on an iPad of dogs and puppies in yards, similar to what I saw on the TVs. She said that the store’s breeders are AKC and CCC, which ensures that the store gets “the top five percent of breeders.” She said that CCC certification helped make sure that the breeders’ puppies are the “healthiest, happiest, and best socialized.” She clarified that the TVs showed breeding conditions of dogs, and she said that dogs are not kept in cages.
Claim that a single violation means a breeder isn’t used
Another employee claimed that if breeders have a single USDA violation, the store doesn’t use them. And he claimed that since breeders are inspected by different organizations, including state inspection agencies and employees from Petland, it ensures that no “bias” from any one agency would let a breeder have problems. The employee said, “They get to see it firsthand. They’re gonna have multiple different third parties looking at them and making sure that you are who you say you are. Let’s say if somebody like, you might have, let’s just say you have one person that’s biased. And you have all the other people doing that same inspection to make sure that there isn’t a bias, that everybody’s coming to the same conclusion. So, it’s multiple sets of checks and balances, it’s not just like one person saying it’s good.”
Petland pays Perdue
An employee showed me information about some of the puppies in the store, including the names of the breeders the puppies came from, stating that Petland preferred using breeders who are part of the CCC program. I saw a page on an iPad explaining Petland’s connection to Purdue’s CCC program. It said, “Petland will financially support Purdue in its development and implementation of the certification,” and noted, “We will go beyond urging breeders to get certified and help make it possible by providing grants that help remove financial barriers to becoming Canine Care Certified. Our goal: Achieve, over time, a network of breeder partners that is 100% Canine Care Certified.”
Breeder names obtained during store investigation
Ezra Whetstone, Outback Canine LLC, 2315 E 150 N, LaGrange, IN 46761, 32-A-0607, 76 dogs and 64 puppies at 10/28/24 USDA inspection (CCC)
Breeder name obtained from store’s website on 5/9/26
Sheree Bonnette, 5708 Liv 516, Chillicothe, MO 64601, 43-A-2151, 59 dogs, 105 puppies, 12 cats, 5 kittens (total animals 181) at 12/16/25 USDA inspection. She has a page on Petland Overland Park’s website.
Breeder names obtained from 2026 Certificates of Veterinary Inspection
David Troyer, Lone Star Kennel, Bethany, MO, 43-A-6903, 57 dogs and 19 puppies at 5/15/25 USDA inspection. Troyer told a CAPS investigator that he uses K9 Partners/K9 Partner as a broker, but a CVI shows that he also sold directly to the store. He told the CAPS investigator that he is not Canine Care Certified because he prefers to squeeze as many litters out of his dogs as possible and then euthanize them.
Samuel Beiler, Platteville, WI 35-A-0409, 33 dogs and 14 puppies at 11/24/25 USDA inspection. A USDA inspector cited him on 1/22/24 for a dog with an infected eye who was no longer receiving treatment, dogs without official IDs on collars, and fecal build-up in outdoor runs. On 6/5/23, Beiler was cited for cracked tile flooring, and on 1/6/22, he received a violation for fecal accumulation in outdoor runs.
Ben and Malinda Beiler, Platteville, WI, 35-A-0546 (formerly 35-B-0299), 50 dogs and 20 puppies at 8/4/25 USDA inspection, where the Beilers were cited for an open bulk food container that had rodent droppings on the top flap. At their 10/14/24 USDA inspection under their B license at another address, they had violations for a dog with dental issues, expired medications, an underage puppy sold at a swap meet, and sharp metal edges near feeders and on a dog door flap.
Timothy Mast, TC Kennels, Cambria, WI, 35-A-0545, 87 dogs and 77 puppies at 6/25/26 USDA inspection, where Mast had violations for a Poodle with infected wounds from a dog fight and an infected ear. The inspector also found Mast in violation for failing to have a record of veterinary treatment for this Poodle, whom Mast was treating with an antibiotic without vet authorization. At his 4/17/26 inspection, Mast had violations for a Havanese with an untreated ear infection, no ear cleaning products on-hand, and exercise pens with loose, piled-up plastic grass seed netting that could pose a danger to dogs.
Eli Schrock, Hillview Kennels, Drakesville, IA, 42-A-1558, 3 dogs and 23 puppies at 6/17/26 USDA inspection. At his 10/24/24 USDA inspection, Schrock had violations for housing a puppy with two adult dogs and for failing to clean two indoor primary enclosures, which had floors significantly covered in smeared feces.
Leroy Yoder, Pleasant View Kennels, Utica, MN, 41-A-0493, 80 dogs and 106 puppies at 1/14/26 USDA inspection (CCC).
David Yoder, Skyline View Kennel, St. Charles, MN, 41-A-0486, 97 dogs and 35 puppies at 4/15/26 USDA inspection.
Monroe Shrok, Mystic Sunset Kennel, Bethany, MO, 43-A-6508, 76 dogs and 10 puppies at 8/10/26 USDA inspection.
Clair Weiler, Whistle Time, 57598 State Hwy 6, Edina, MO, 43-A-6591, 70 dogs and 80 puppies at 1/13/26 USDA inspection; this is the address for Pine Valley Auto. Only the kennel name is listed on the USDA license.
Broker name obtained from 2026 Certificates of Veterinary Inspection
K9 Partners, 8004 NW 154th Street #232, Miami Lakes, FL, 58-B-0702, 0 dogs and 0 puppies at 11/11/25 USDA inspection. The first pre-license inspection was on 6/8/22 (0 dogs, 0 puppies. There were no more inspections until 6/10/25, when another pre-license inspection took place (0 dogs, 0 puppies). Three of Marquez’ shell companies in South Florida are listed as officer/directors for K9 Partners, which the Florida Secretary of State allows. Bart Basi, a lawyer in Longboat Key, FL has been a registered agent for K9 Partners.
There are no puppies at the Miami Lakes address because this is a UPS store. The puppies are coming from K9 Partner in Bloomfield, IA and are going directly to Luis Marquez’ Petland stores in Florida, Texas, and Kansas. K9 Partner is listed as a LLC with the Iowa Secretary of State, with the authorized signer being Bart Basi. Basi is involved with various business ventures with Luis Marquez, who owns Petland franchises in three states (see below).
It appears that Basi and Marquez are using federal documents (CVIs) to conceal the source of the puppies.
K9 Partner, LLC, Bloomfield, IA, 42-B-0335, 54 dogs and 26 puppies at 4/16/26 USDA. Will Yoder owns the property and manages the breeding facility.
Luis Marquez, Petland franchise owner
Luis Marquez currently owns three Petland franchises in Texas. His Bellaire location continued to sell puppies in violation of Houston’s retail sales ban, which went into effect in January 2023. A judge issued a warrant for Marquez’ arrest after he didn’t appear in court. Petland Bellaire in Houston finally closed in mid-2024 after Marquez had amassed $40,000 in fines for violating the city’s ordinance.
In Florida, Marquez originally had seven stores but is now down to three. Marquez took over the Petland franchise in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Kansas Department of Agriculture ordered him to stop selling puppies because of serious violations. But subsequently, the state allowed him to sell puppies again. Truist Bank in Florida has filed a foreclosure and commercial line of credit default lawsuit against Marquez’ companies. Marquez owns three veterinary clinics called Your Pet’s Vet in Bellaire and Shenandoah (Woodlands), TX, and Pembroke Pines, FL.
Evidence contradicting the store’s claims
Employees at the Petland claimed that none of the store’s breeders keep dogs in cages, and that the breeders’ dogs and puppies run around grassy yards and are socialized. This is false. I documented Karen Miller’s facility in 2018, and Sheree Bonnette’s facility in 2022. At both, I saw dogs pacing and circling in raised cages. I did not see dogs in play yards or in facilities that resembled the ones shown on Petland’s TVs. An employee’s claim about dogs having space to run and socialize is not true.
The employees’ claims that the store doesn’t use puppy mills is false. Any facility where dogs are kept in cages to be commercially bred are puppy mills. Additionally, a number of the facilities noted above had USDA violations, including serious veterinary care infractions that were causing suffering. Although, any kennel with over 100 dogs and puppies is very clearly operating as a puppy mill, regardless of whether the USDA cites it for violations—a distinction that carries little weight given the agency’s history of lax enforcement.
An employee’s claim that the USDA inspects all of the store’s breeders is untrue. Karen Miller’s USDA license was canceled in 2019, yet the store continued to buy puppies from her. If she has more than five breeding females, federal law requires her to have a USDA license to sell to a broker or directly to pet shops.
An employee’s claim that a single USDA violation would make the store drop a breeder is misleading. Having worked undercover at USDA-licensed commercial breeders and brokers, I’ve seen thousands of violations that were not reported by USDA inspectors, even when the inspection took place while I was there. Breeders are also very experienced at hiding violations from inspectors. And inspectors are likely to not report violations when a breeder promises to correct the problem and is concerned that a mark on their record will negatively affect their business.
An employee’s claim that the Petland credit card is usually around 5-20% is in accurate. It has a standard APR of 35.99%.
