Puppy Dreams Wichita
6810 W Kellogg Dr #120
Wichita, KS 67209
(316) 260-3531
Date and time of CAPS investigation: 6/17/26, 1833
Approximate number of puppies observed at time of investigation: 25
An entire wall of the store was filled with aquarium-like enclosures of puppies. There were 26 enclosures, with larger ones for larger pups and smaller ones for smaller pups. Only about half contained puppies, and those that did had one to three puppies each. The enclosures had solid walls, with water bottles attached to their back walls, and solid floorings covered in shredded paper.
I asked an employee about a French Bulldog puppy, which she said costs $8,500. She immediately said financing was available and claimed that payments usually ranged from $70 to $150 a month. I asked about breeders, and she said that some were OFA-certified, and she discussed that at length. I then asked for her to clarify about the breeders themselves, and she said they were USDA-licensed and not always local. She added, “A lot of times we use hobby breeders. They’ll do like one or two litters.”
I then asked her to clarify what the breeding facilities were like, asking if they were commercial kennels. She said, “Oh no, I think they’re all small. They’re all small time. I mean I haven’t been there personally, but the condition which we get these puppies in, it’s not like low class, if that makes sense, it’s not bad. Like they’ve been well taken care of, they’ve been vaccinated. Ninety percent of the time they’ve been chipped before they come here. So, I mean, we get pictures of the parents, we get pictures of them as puppies, so it’s like, it’s very bougie.” I asked, “So it’s small, little…” She said, “Like bougie, top-tier. That way we can assure they’re humane, you know what I mean?”
I asked for breeder information on a French Bulldog puppy, and I was shown info for Calvin Kroger, 48232 292nd St, Hudson, SD 57034. The employee told me that she wouldn’t allow me to take pictures of the registration or pedigree as I looked at it
Breeder names obtained from store investigation
Calvin Kroger, Kroger Kennel, 48232 292nd St, Hudson, SD 57034, 46-A-0420. 56 dogs and 17 puppies at 8/13/26 USDA inspection.
Broker names obtained from 2026 Certificates of Veterinary Inspection
J.A.K.’s Puppies, Britt, IA 42-B-027, 108 Puppies at 9/12/26 USDA inspection.
https://caps-web.org/caps-investigators-journal-the-truth-behind-j-a-k-s-puppies/
https://caps-web.org/caps-investigators-journal-the-truth-behind-puppy-mill-brokers/
https://caps-web.org/caps-works-with-the-dodo-to-expose-pet-stores-in-california/
https://caps-web.org/puppy-mill-dogs-sold-as-rescues/
Becky Busboom, Dannebrog, NE, 47-B-0116, 0 puppies at 4/28/26 USDA inspection; 18 puppies at 2/27/25 USDA inspection. Busboom was the broker for Claudia Obermiller, a notorious cat breeder in Nebraska, and Gary Felts, who ran a horrendous puppy mill in Iowa. CAPS’ investigations of both breeders led to USDA fines and termination of licenses. We also worked with the USDA’s Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Iowa after Felts continued to sell puppies and hide assets to avoid paying his federal fine.
Busboom was also a broker for Dr. A.G. Beukelman in Iowa, a veterinarian who ran his own puppy mill. Busboom used his veterinary services, as did Jolyn Noethe, the owner of J.A.K.’s Puppies. Noethe also created Rescue Pets Iowa, one of the fraudulent rescues she set up to circumvent retail pet sale bans in California and Chicago. Dr. Beukelman, who had DVM and MPVM degrees from UC Davis, had 9 violations at his 10/12/16 USDA inspection. He passed away in 2023.
Angie Schaaf, Nebraskaland Pets, Atkinson, NE, 47-B-0126, 155 dogs and 112 puppies at 5/6/25 USDA inspection; 220 dogs and 189 puppies at 9/1/21 USDA inspection.
Patrick Fulton, Fulton Enterprise, Alden, MN, 41-B-026, 6 puppies at 11/19/25 USDA inspection.
Breeder names obtained from 2026 Certificates of Veterinary Inspection
Clemens and Lizzie Borntrager, Waverly, KS, 48-A-2381, 62 dogs and 49 puppies at 6/15/26 USDA inspection. The USDA inspected the Borntragers three times in 2026.
The Borntragers’ 1/12/26 report, which lists 73 dogs and 69 puppies, had the following violations: direct veterinary care violations for two dogs with severe dental issues, including missing teeth, loose teeth, swollen and red gums, and recessed gums; build-up of hair, cobwebs, dirt, debris, and rodent droppings in several areas of the dog building; feces under enclosures; noticeable ammonia odor; dirty access doors; whelping enclosure tops covered with cobwebs and hair; numerous discarded items around a building housing dogs, including boxes, wire flooring sections, dewormer bottles, transport crates, animal bones, metal, and wood; no veterinary dental plan with licensee not knowing the preventative measures to take; and no medical records for most recent yearly veterinary exam.
The Borntragers’ 4/14/26 report had additional serious veterinary care violations, which should have been cited as direct. There was a Shih Tzu with heavy mats, comingled with feces, on all four legs. The mats were so thick and tight that the inspector had trouble finding the dog’s nails. The dog had to drag the mats along the floor. A Poodle had heavy, tight mats on his back, face, and hind legs. The inspector cited the Borntragers for failing to use appropriate methods to maintain the coats of the dogs. There was also a violation for dogs without identification.
At their 6/15/26 USDA inspection, the inspector cited the Borntragers for an Alaskan Kee-Klai whose left toes were trapped in the raised wire flooring. The dog was unable to remove her foot. There was also a violation for an enclosure with bent wire flooring with numerous sharp points that were bending slightly upwards.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture cited the Borntragers on 2/2/26 for rusty wire on indoor and outdoor runs, cracks on kennel walls, punctures on pen sidings, chewed water bottles, and an accumulation of feces under runs.
Betty Fetters Kennel, Novinger, MO, 43-A-6869, 117 dogs and 81 puppies at 7/23/26 USDA inspection.
Verla Blosser, Buffalo, MO, 43-A-4957, 127 dogs and 38 puppies at 7/29/26 USDA inspection. At her 11/10/21 inspection, Blosser had a violation for excessively dirty outdoor runs attached to an outdoor building, with all nine runs being three-fourths covered in fecal matter. Blosser’s 6/9/26 Kansas inspection had violations for several enclosures lacking solid resting surfaces and no smoke detector in a building with dogs.
Joseph Schmucker, 13402 Irving Rd, New Haven, IN, 32-A-1108, 34 dogs and 32 puppies at 3/11/2026 USDA inspection, where the inspector cited him for not creating and maintaining complete medical records for treatments provided to puppies.
Samuel Beachy, Clark, MO, 43-A-4887, 95 dogs and 55 puppies at 8/27/26 USDA inspection.
Levi Borntreger, Waverly, KS, 48-A-2257, 63 dogs and 40 puppies at 3/17/2025 USDA inspection.
Andy Schwartz, Oswego, KS, 48-A-2271, 62 dogs and 59 puppies at 6/15/26 USDA inspection.
Evidence contradicting the store’s claims
The employee’s description of the store’s breeders as “bougie, top-tier” breeders who do “one or two litters” is false. At his 8/13/26 USDA inspection, Calvin Kroger had a total of 73 dogs and puppies. Puppy Dreams Wichita also buys from additional breeders with numerous dogs, such as Betty Fetters, who had a total of 198 dogs and puppies at her 7/23/26 USDA inspection, Verla Blosser, who had a total of 165 dogs and puppies at her 7/29/26 USDA inspection, and Angie Schaaf, who had at total of 267 dogs and puppies at her 5/6/25 USDA inspection and as many as 409 total animals at her 9/1/21 inspection.
Having lots of dogs like this is normal for USDA-licensed facilities (puppy mills), which are the primary suppliers of puppies and kittens to pet shops. These mills typically house as many animals as they can for the purpose of maximizing profits. These facilities are not what the public would consider to be “humane,” despite what the employee at Puppy Dreams Wichita claimed. Furthermore, breeders who sell to pet shops almost never restrict their female dogs to having only one or two litters, which would minimize profits. Instead, the facility owners usually force their animals to have as many litters as the dogs can consistently produce, before replacing the mothers with female puppies held back from recent litters. These new dogs then continue the cycle, stuck inside breeding facilities with other longtime breeding dogs.
Puppy Dreams Wichita also buys from the Borntragers in Waverly, Kansas, who continue to have myriad federal and state violations but somehow maintain their USDA and Kansas licenses. The violations listed above clearly demonstrate that they are running a puppy mill.
In addition, Puppy Dreams Wichita buys from Iowa-based J.A.K.’s Puppies, owned by Jolyn Noethe. J.A.K.’s is one of the most notorious dog brokerage facilities in the country. When California passed a law banning stores from selling puppies from breeders, Noethe set up the fake nonprofit Hobo K-9 Rescue, which purchased puppies from the same puppy mills as J.A.K.’s but claimed that the puppies were “rescues.” This fraudulent attempt to circumvent California state law was a blatant puppy laundering scheme.
When CAPS provided evidence about Hobo K-9 to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, and the AG began investigating Noethe for Hobo-K9, Noethe created another fake rescue called Rescue Pets Iowa. This fraudulent rescue sold puppies to Bark Adoptions, a California-based fake rescue run by a California pet shop owner, who in turn offered these dogs at his stores and sold them to other stores. CAPS continued investigating Noethe and J.A.K.’s and provided additional evidence to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, which finally ordered Noethe to shut down the “rescues” and pay a $60,000 fine. She still, however, has a USDA license, allowing her to purchase and sell puppies across the country. J.A.K.’s has purchased puppies from notorious breeders, such as:
— Prairie Lane Kennel, run by Dennis and Donna Van Wyk in New Sharon, Iowa, a shockingly dilapidated puppy mill that, among many other horrendous sights, contained a dog who had an open, infected wound and was standing on feces-smeared floors.
— Purple Heart Kennel, run by Wendie and Doug Dettbarn in Strawberry Point, Iowa, which had filthy dogs with matted hair and frozen water bowls.
— Ervin Bontrager’s mill in Hillsboro, Wisconsin, which had matted dogs in wire cages over puddles of feces and urine that stank so bad it was difficult to breathe.
— AJ’s Angels in Cushing, Minnesota, owned by Angie McDuffee, which had 400 dogs in wire cages, some of them circling and pacing non-stop from anxiety and stress.
