Companion Animal Protection Society v. Puppies4Les
Plaintiffs and appellants Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) and Robert McCormack (collectively, plaintiffs) filed a civil action seeking to enforce alleged violations of Health and Safety Code section 122354.5, which generally requires pet stores to obtain animals only from nonprofit animal shelters or rescue groups. They alleged that defendant and respondent Select Puppies, Inc. (SPI) and its owner, defendant and respondent Brian Mohrfeld (Mohrfeld), obtained puppies from breeders located out of state and delivered those animals to retail pet stores in California, fraudulently representing them to be rescue animals. Plaintiffs also named the owners and operators of three retail pet stores that allegedly received animals from SPI and Mohrfeld as defendants in the action. Respondents Puppies4Less and Anita Chavira are among these named defendants.
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