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USDA-licensed dog breeders in New York

New York has 30 dog breeders and dealers with a federal license, 1.5% of the national total. This is what USDA inspectors found when they visited, from every inspection report published since 2014.

Source: USDA APHIS license list of Sep 15, 2026 and inspection reports to Sep 18, 2026.

30 active USDA dog licenses in New York: 23 breeders and 7 dealers

2,629dogs counted at each licensee's latest inspection

204inspections from 2023 to 2025

67.6%found no problems, against 88.7% nationally

#11of 26 states by licensed dog breeders

New York has the 11th most USDA-licensed dog breeders

1.5% of the 2,063 active USDA dog licenses in the US are in New York.

Active USDA dog licenses by state, top 10
#	State	Licenses	Dogs counted	Clean, 2023 to 2025
1	Missouri	680	46,635	96.3%
2	Indiana	379	17,172	93.8%
3	Ohio	247	21,357	75.2%
4	Iowa	152	11,055	86.5%
5	Oklahoma	82	4,265	91%
6	Kansas	77	5,921	89%
7	Wisconsin	77	4,747	63.8%
8	Arkansas	67	3,929	92.9%
9	Pennsylvania	52	4,482	82.8%
10	Illinois	37	1,236	91.2%
11	New York	30	2,629	67.6%

How often USDA inspections of New York breeders find a problem

Share of inspections with at least one citation. Visits where nobody was home are left out.

In 2014, 57.1% of inspections in New York found at least one problem. In 2025 it was 36.2%. From 2016 to 2022 inspectors could log a minor issue as a “teachable moment”, which isn't a citation, so part of the drop is a change in how problems were recorded. A falling rate can mean better kennels or lighter inspections. The records alone can't tell which.

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Year	Inspections	Found a problem
2014	44	57.1%
2015	47	53.3%
2016	35	42.9%
2017	51	44.4%
2018	51	24%
2019	64	19%
2020	18	22.2%
2021	58	32.1%
2022	72	29.6%
2023	66	31.2%
2024	85	31.1%
2025	53	36.2%
2026	34	22.6%

What USDA inspectors cite most often in New York

The rules behind New York's citations since 2014. Separately, inspectors arrived 42 times and found nobody available to let them in.

Rule	What it requires	Cited
2.40(b)(2)	Methods to prevent, control, diagnose and treat disease and injury	51
3.11(a)	Excreta and food waste removed from enclosures daily	42
3.11(c)	Housekeeping of the premises	38
3.11(b)(2)	Sanitization of enclosures and food and water receptacles	37
2.40(b)(3)	Daily observation of all animals to assess health and well-being	29
3.1(a)	Housing must be structurally sound and kept in good repair	25
3.6(a)(1)	Enclosures must be structurally sound and in good repair	19
3.1(e)	Food and bedding storage	14

Why a New York breeder can be missing from these records

Breeders who sell face to face don't need a USDA license

USDA only licenses breeders with more than four breeding females who sell to pet stores, to brokers, or to buyers they never meet, which includes most online sales. A breeder who sells only to people who visit in person is exempt. So a breeder missing from these records may be unlicensed or simply exempt, and a clean USDA record covers only what an inspector saw on the day.

Sources for these figures

Active licenses: USDA APHIS, List of Active Licensees and Registrants, as of Sep 15, 2026. Public domain.
Inspections and citations: USDA APHIS inspection reports through Sep 18, 2026, collected by the Data Liberation Project. Dog counts, repeat citations and rule counts use its parsed files, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the figures on this page are shared under the same license.
A licensee counts as a dog breeder or dealer if it holds a Class A or B license and dogs were counted at any inspection since 2014.

USDA-licensed dog breeders in New York

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Breeders who sell face to face don't need a USDA license

Sources for these figures