City of Duluth breeding kennel bonds.
$275 flat. Soft pull.
A dog or cat breeding kennel in Duluth requires a fixed $3,000 license bond filed with the City of Duluth. At a flat 3% that lands at our $275 minimum — the same for every kennel. One soft credit pull, e-signed in 1–2 business days.
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Three steps to licensed.
A Duluth breeding kennel bond is about as simple as surety gets. Here's the whole process:
Apply once, online
Business details, owner information, effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. That is the application.
Reviewed & approved
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, an underwriter reaches out within 48 hours. The soft pull never affects your score.
File with the City
Receive the executed $3,000 bond ready to file with your Duluth dog or cat breeding kennel license application. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
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$3,000 bond × 3% = $90, below our $275 minimum, so $275 one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the breeding kennel bond guarantees
The City of Duluth licenses dog and cat breeding kennels — operations that breed and raise litters for sale — and conditions the license on a $3,000 surety bond. Because breeding kennels keep animals long term, the City wants a financial backstop standing behind the kennel's humane care and compliance with the animal-services ordinance.
The bond is a consumer-and-animal-welfare guarantee running to the City of Duluth: it stands behind your humane housing and care of the breeding animals and litters, honest dealing with buyers, and compliance with the breeding kennel ordinance. If you violate those terms and someone is harmed, they can recover against the bond.
It's a three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Duluth (the obligee). It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety.
You need this bond if you are
Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your $3,000 bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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$275 flat, five-minute application, e-signed $3,000 bond in 1–2 business days. Soft pull only.