Breeder: Stiehl C. Wilson
Address: 1496 US-160
City, State, Zip: Everton, MO 65646
USDA License: 43-A-6495
Date and time of CAPS Investigation: 3/13/26, 1248
Weather at time of investigation: 61°F and sunny
Number of dogs and puppies noted in a 1/2/25 USDA inspection: 29 dogs and 34 puppies
The facility seemed to be in a state of expansion, with building materials and junk strewn about the property. The kennel itself consisted of a series of dog runs attached to buildings, with doggie-doors allowing access to smaller indoor enclosures. Many runs had what appeared to be multiple days of urine stains and feces piled in them (3.1 Housing facilities, general (c) Surfaces (3) Cleaning).
There were three kennel buildings with 20 dog runs total, set into rows of five. One building had rows on opposite sides of it, with one row on concrete and the other raised up above a concrete flooring. The other two buildings only had a row of runs on one side: one row on concrete and the other raised up. The elevated pens appeared to have slatted floorings.
All pens had wire walls, and the buildings they were attached to were made of metal. Runs were between 10 and 15 feet long and about 2.5 feet wide. It appeared that most of the dogs, if they were to stand widthwise and extended their noses and tails out at the same time, would touch both walls of their runs. One set of elevated runs had plastic walls tall enough to keep the dogs inside of them from seeing out unless they stood on their hind paws,
I saw one to two dogs in most runs, though there appeared to be four dogs in one run with plastic walls on its side, but I couldn’t see the dogs’ entire bodies in those runs. In three concrete runs I didn’t see any dogs, and those runs had no feces or urine stains on their floorings like others.
The amount of junk stored around the property was enormous. A building with raised dog runs on one side had another side with runs either in disassembly or assembly. It was difficult to determine. Amongst the PVC pipping that appeared to be for runs’ frames there were assorted plastic strips, pieces of plastic walls (both stacked up and strewn about), and dog crates lying on their sides. Outside of the occupied runs on the other side of the building there was a dog cate on the ground next to several hand tools and what appeared to be a plastic sheet, as well as numerous pieces of piping (3.1 Housing facilities, general (b) Condition and site).
A wire fence ran along the back of the kennel property. On both sides of the fence, as well as just outside other dog runs, there was much junk, including pieces of PVC and metal piping, metal sheeting, a broken plastic bucket, cinderblocks, metal trash cans that appeared to be used for burning garbage, sections of wire fencing, a dolly, numerous plastic buckets strewn about, pieces of plastic walls, a loose tree stump, and a pile of old wood overgrown with weeds (3.1 Housing facilities, general (b) Condition and site).
Breeder is connected to the following store:
Pet Fair, 1201 Lake Woodlands Dr #2008, Spring, TX 77380
Evidence contradicting store’s claims: I visited Pet Fair on 7/27/24 and asked an employee about the breeders they use. An employee said that breeding dogs are kept in “a big, fenced grass area.” He said the store is “totally against” puppy mills. Wilson’s facility is clearly a puppy mill, with dogs in runs who pace back and forth in confinement. The dogs are not kept in an open grassy area. The feces and urine stains in dogs’ enclosures, and the junk filling the fenced-in back yard, indicates that the dogs are not released into the yard to play.
