Lil Pups Day Care

A licensed child care center in Dilley, Texas 78017

220 N Main, Dilley, Texas 78017. (830) 965-2160.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Frio County: 4.5
2 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
7 inspections on record
4-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5

Inspection (survey): A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation: What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels: Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status: Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity: The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 8 child care providers in Frio County had 4.5.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 3, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: AP Must Place Infants in Face up Sleeping Position or Must Have Completed and Signed Sleep Exception Form for the Infant, at the inspection on Feb 6, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans, at the inspection on Feb 16, 2024

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

7 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 3, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

“One out of four employee records evaluated had expired first aid training.”

Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 17, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2026.
Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

“One out of four employee records evaluated had expired CPR training.”

Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 17, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2026.

Feb 6, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

AP Must Place Infants in Face up Sleeping Position or Must Have Completed and Signed Sleep Exception Form for the Infant

“A caregiver laid an infant down to sleep on their stomach instead of their back. This infant is not developmentally capable of rolling over on their own. There was no sleep exception form on file for this infant. This was corrected at inspection when it was addressed with the caregiver and the caregiver rolled the infant over onto their back.”

Rule 746.2427(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 21, 2025.
Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - No Overlap

“The use zones for two slides were overlapping. This was corrected at inspection when the smaller slide was removed from the playground.”

Rule 746.4805(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2025.
Reduction of child/caregiver naptime ratio by 50% allowed, If 13 or more children in care, children are 18 mo. or older and other standards met

“Caregiver/child ratio was reduced to 1 caregiver to 7 infants under 18 months of age during naptime. This was corrected when additional caregivers returned to the classroom and the standard was discussed with the operation.”

Rule 746.1613(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 21, 2025.

Feb 16, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans

“The operational policies was lacking the emergency preparedness plan.”

Rule 746.501(a)(24). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 20, 2024.
Documentation of Drills

“The fire drill was not documented for January.”

Rule 746.5205(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 16, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years

Feb 21, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

Fire Extinguishers Serviced

“Fire extinguishers lacked current servicing.”

Rule 746.5307(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 24, 2023.

Apr 5, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

Director Annual Training - Caring for children under 24 months

“Two out of four caregivers lacked the required one hour of (1) Recognizing and preventing shaken baby syndrome; (2) `Preventing sudden infant death syndrome; and (3) Understanding early childhood brain development training.”

Rule 746.1311(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 12, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 5, 2022.
Sheltering Drill For Severe Weather-Four times a calendar year

“A shelter drill had not be conducted in the past year. CI: The was corrected at inspection when a shelter drill was conducted during the inspection.”

Rule 746.5205(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 5, 2022.
Children’s Products- Annual Certification

“The required Consumer Product Safety Commission form has not been completed within the last year. CI: This was corrected at inspection when the director certified the product safety form and posted it.”

Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 5, 2022.

All 8 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Feb 3, 2026	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Feb 21, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Feb 6, 2025	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Jun 25, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Jun 14, 2024	Report to the state	No violation found
Feb 16, 2024	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Feb 21, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Apr 5, 2022	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 1, 2013.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 75 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 8 child care providers in Frio County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4.5; this one had 7.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

8 of the 8 in Frio County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Lil Pups Day Care This child care provider	7
Dilley Isd Early Childhood Center	11
The Alicia R. Yanez Center Kids Are First-Pearsall	1
Esmeralda Aguirre	Not given
Cplc Mshs Pearsall	0
Kidville Early Childhood Learning Center	4
Tiny Blessings Daycare	3
Mama Grace Playhouse	45
Sunshine Day Care Center	5

What the record doesn’t say

Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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