New York’s Hudson Valley is one of the most Lyme-endemic regions in the entire country for both humans and dogs, which is worth considering just as much as registry status when selecting a reputable breeder here. Eight currently active Australian Labradoodle breeders across the state have been identified through verifiable contact information, and in several cases, through the official ALAA and ALCA membership directories themselves.
Why New York Breeder Pricing Isn’t Published Online
As stated, none of the eight New York breeders listed here post exact puppy prices on their publicly accessible websites. This is standard practice among many smaller multigenerational breeding programs, which will typically provide a quote regarding pricing only after discussing a family’s specific needs by phone or email, so direct communication with a breeder is the best method to get a current cost.
New York’s Puppy Lemon Law Comes With a Major Exemption for Home Breeders
New York’s General Business Law Article 35-D gives buyers a real remedy when a licensed veterinarian certifies that a dog is unfit due to illness or a congenital defect: a full refund of the purchase price, sales tax, and reasonable veterinary costs within 14 business days of the sale for illness or 180 calendar days for congenital defects, an exchange for an animal of equivalent value, or reimbursement for veterinary services already rendered while keeping the animal. Dealers must remit payment to the buyer within 10 business days of receiving a signed veterinary certification.
The drawback is determining who actually qualifies as a “pet dealer” for purposes of the Act. The base statute, GBL Section 752, defines a pet dealer as someone who sells more than nine animals a year for profit; however, a separate carve-out provision excludes breeders selling fewer than 25 animals annually that were born and raised at the seller’s own residence from the veterinary-examination requirement, the information disclosure statement, and the pedigree-registration requirements that make up the bulk of the Act’s actual consumer protections. Consequently, a small home-based Australian Labradoodle program producing a couple of litters a year is unlikely to be subject to those protections, which is why requesting a written health guarantee from the breeder is worthwhile regardless of what state law technically requires.
New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets applies that same 25-animal threshold when deciding who needs a pet dealer license for home-raised litters, even though the bare language of the statute still references a 9-animal minimum; the department’s current guidance is what actually gets enforced day to day. A newer law, effective December 2024, prohibits retail pet stores from sourcing dogs from large-scale commercial breeders, but it targets retailers, not private individuals breeding dogs at their own homes, so none of the programs featured here are affected by it.
New York’s ALAA- and ALCA-Registered Australian Labradoodle Breeders
Catskill Country Labradoodles
Catskill Country Labradoodles, owned by Denise and John Jacobus in Unadilla, is a confirmed member breeder of the Australian Labradoodle Association of America (ALAA) that has been conducting genetic testing, disease testing, DNA profiling, and hip and elbow X-ray testing on its breeding dogs for decades. The program breeds three sizes of Australian Labradoodle; although the website lists small, medium, and standard sizes, no specific weight ranges are published.
Location: Unadilla, New York
Phone Number: 607-563-9174
Website: Catskill Country Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA
Lewis Manor Labradoodles
Lewis Manor Labradoodles in Williamstown is an ALAA Silver Paw breeder that runs a Guardian Dog Program, placing a breeding dog with a local family at a reduced price in exchange for caring for the dog until she is ready to be bred again. According to its website, its dogs have been extensively health tested, though it doesn’t provide details on every individual test performed.
Location: Williamstown, New York
Phone Number: 315-964-2153
Website: Lewis Manor Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA (Silver Paw)
Far Beyond Dogs
Far Beyond Dogs, located in Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, specializes in multigenerational Australian Labradoodles and claims ALAA Golden Paw breeder status, backed by OFA and Paw Print Genetics health testing on its breeding stock. The phone number listed on its site carries an Idaho area code, but both the ALAA directory and a Yelp listing confirm the business itself is operated from Saranac Lake, New York.
Location: Saranac Lake, New York
Website: Far Beyond Dogs
Registry: ALAA (Golden Paw, breeder-stated)
East End Labradoodles
East End Labradoodles in Mount Sinai on Long Island’s Suffolk County has an entry in ALAA’s Breeder Directory. While East End does appear on this directory, its own website doesn’t show registry badges or detailed health-testing documentation on the pages available for review.
Location: Mount Sinai, New York
Phone Number: 631-459-7862
Website: East End Labradoodles
Registry: ALAA
Black Creek Labradoodles
Black Creek Labradoodles, owned by Emily Sheehan in New Paltz, is registered with ALCA as a Member (#24179), verified directly on ALCA’s own breeder-listings page. Black Creek provides health testing information for hips, elbows, patellas, and heart through OFA, annual eye exams through CAER, and genetic testing prior to breeding. Third-party websites also indicate that Black Creek carries ALAA Golden Paw status; however, this specific claim could not be independently verified on ALAA’s own Membership Directory.
Location: New Paltz, New York
Website: Black Creek Labradoodles
Registry: ALCA
Three More New York Breeders Worth a Closer Look
Each of these three programs carries some ambiguity around registry status, whether from a directory listing that couldn’t be independently confirmed or health-testing details that simply aren’t published, so a direct conversation with the breeder is worth having before assuming anything about registry affiliation.
Stonegate Labradoodles
Stonegate Labradoodles, located in Highland, about ninety minutes outside New York City, was formerly involved in raising AKC-registered Labrador Retrievers before transitioning to raising Australian Labradoodles at its home-based operation. The website indicates that puppies are raised using the Puppy Culture Program required by ALAA, which would suggest some compliance with ALAA standards, though there is no record of Stonegate Labradoodles being a current member of ALAA. Health testing for its breeding dogs covers hips, elbows, patellas, heart, and eyes through OFA and PennHIP, along with a DNA panel screening for more than 270 conditions.
Location: Highland, New York
Website: Stonegate Labradoodles
Registry: Not confirmed on ALAA’s directory (ALAA-aligned protocols stated)
West Orchard Labradoodles
West Orchard Labradoodles, located in the northern NYC suburbs and Westchester County, describes itself as one of the original breeders of Australian-style Labradoodles in the Northeast; it offers brown, black, cream, apricot, red, and gold coat colors in fleece and wool textures across standard (23 to 25 inches, 60 to 80 lbs.) and medium/miniature (16 to 19 inches, 21 to 40 lbs.) sizes. Although the site displays association logos, there’s no mention of a specific registry name in the text available for review, so an ALAA, WALA, or ALCA affiliation shouldn’t be assumed.
Location: Westchester County, New York
Phone Number: 914-977-3890
Website: West Orchard Labradoodles
Labradoodles of Long Island
Labradoodles of Long Island has been breeding since 2006 and states OFA certification of hips, elbows, heart, and eyes, with lines clear of PRA, EIC, and von Willebrand disease. According to the breeder’s own site, its dogs are multigenerational and meet fifth-generation pedigree requirements; however, an independent review aggregator states that this program breeds standard or earlier-generation Labradoodles rather than true multigenerational Australian Labradoodles, so its generational and registry status should be confirmed directly rather than taken at face value.
Location: Setauket, New York
Phone Number: 631-941-1111
Website: Labradoodles of Long Island
The Hudson Valley Is One of the Most Lyme-Endemic Places in the Country
The Companion Animal Parasite Council’s own clinical guideline puts regional canine Lyme seroprevalence as low as 1.4% in the West and as high as 13.3% in the Northeast, the highest of any US region, and CAPC’s 2026 forecast names New York as a continuing high-risk state that’s also now seeing the lone star tick expand northward, raising ehrlichiosis risk in areas that historically didn’t see much of it.
New York’s own county-level human data back that up dramatically. A Poughkeepsie Journal analysis of CDC and state health department data found that Dutchess County had more reported Lyme disease cases than any other county in the entire country between 2002 and 2006, with Columbia County ranking first nationally in per-capita rate over the same period and Dutchess, Greene, Putnam, and Ulster counties ranking second, third, sixth, and eighth, meaning five Hudson Valley counties landed among the top eight counties in the whole United States.
The Dutchess County Legislature issued a briefing stating that the NYS Department of Health (DOH) reported approximately 581 estimated Lyme disease cases in the county in 2017, a rate above 200 cases per 100,000 population. Additionally, there were approximately 107 cases of anaplasmosis and 119 cases of babesiosis reported that same year, both other tick-borne diseases. State and federal reporting can be inconsistent when it comes to Lyme disease rates; in 2010, the DOH stated the Lyme rate for Dutchess County was 177 cases per 100,000 population, whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put it at only 50 cases per 100,000 population for that same county and year, a gap attributed to under-counting in federal Lyme surveillance.
The Australian Labradoodle Was Born From a Guide-Dog Problem, Not a Trend
Although many breeds have been developed to chase market trends or consumer demand, that isn’t true of the Australian Labradoodle. The breed was developed because of one family’s need for a guide dog. In Hawaii, a woman required a guide dog, but unfortunately all of the existing standard guide-dog breeds triggered her husband’s allergies.
Wally Conron, who worked for the Royal Guide Dogs Association of Australia during the 1980s, set out to resolve the couple’s dilemma. He crossbred a Labrador Retriever with a Standard Poodle to produce puppies with the right temperament for guide work. The resulting dogs had the temperament breeders were after, but they still shed noticeably, so over the next several years, breeders added Cocker Spaniel, Irish Water Spaniel, and Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier to the mix to develop a coat that would shed less.
By the early 1990s, two organizations in Australia, Tegan Park and Rutland Manor, had stabilized the coat and temperament traits associated with the Australian Labradoodle as we know it today. Several of the breeders listed here in New York who are members of the Australian Labradoodle Association of America (ALAA) and/or the Australian Labradoodle Club of America (ALCA) trace their breeding lines back to that same foundational work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Under Article 35-D of New York’s General Business Law, buyers have up to 14 business days to verify a puppy has an illness and up to 180 calendar days to verify a congenital condition through a veterinarian, after which they can choose a refund of the purchase price, an exchange for another puppy of equal value, or reimbursement for reasonable veterinary expenses tied to diagnosing and treating the condition. Small home-based breeders who sell fewer than 25 dogs a year from litters born and raised on their own property, however, may fall outside most of that law’s actual protections.
New York’s legislature has defined a “pet dealer” as anyone selling more than nine animals in a calendar year. However, the Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) actually applies its own working threshold of 25 animals a year for breeders whose litters are born and raised on their own residential property, which allows many small home-based breeding operations to operate without a license.
Yes, especially in the Hudson Valley. The Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) reports canine Lyme seroprevalence as high as 13.3% in the Northeast region, the highest of any US region, and Dutchess, Columbia, Putnam, Greene, and Ulster counties have consistently ranked among the top eight counties nationwide for human Lyme disease cases in recent years.
Five of the eight breeders featured here are confirmed members on ALAA’s or ALCA’s own public directories. Stonegate and West Orchard display registry associations without clear confirmation on those directories, and Labradoodles of Long Island has some ambiguity around its generational and registry status; all three are worth confirming directly before buying.
Ask for current pricing directly, since none of these breeders post it online, confirm registry status with ALAA or ALCA rather than relying on a website’s logos, request a written health guarantee regardless of what state law technically requires, and ask how each breeder manages ticks year-round given how Lyme-endemic parts of New York are.
Conclusion
Eight real, currently operating Australian Labradoodle breeders serve New York families, and five of them can be confirmed directly on ALAA’s or ALCA’s own official directories rather than relying on self-reported claims. None publish pricing online, so a direct conversation is the only way to get a current number, and that same conversation is the right time to ask about health guarantees and tick prevention given how Lyme-endemic parts of the state are.
Confirm registry status directly with ALAA or ALCA rather than trusting a website’s logos alone, get any health guarantee in writing since smaller home breeders may fall outside the state’s statutory refund protections, and ask about year-round tick prevention given how high Lyme disease rates run in the Hudson Valley specifically.
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