Laws on number of dogs in your city?

[Michiyo-Fir]

This is fairly annoying as I just found out the area I would like to move to and live in (Langley) which is mostly farmlands has a 2 dog per household restriction. Where I live now (in the city) and even in downtown Vancouver the limit is 3.

Now I would like to have 4 dogs but I think I can deal with 3. 2 is just too little!! I'll probably have to contact the city and figure out if I can get some kind of permit to own more. Booooo this sucks.

Do you have a limit in your city?

 

[JessLough]

In the city, 2 dogs 3 cats, last I checked. But it is super easy to get a permit to have more, or you just don't register more than 2

 

[Amber]

The county that I live in has a 3 dog limit, but you can get a license to own more. I think there's a fee and routine inspections that come along with it..

 

[Kat09Tails]

It's 50 here by state law. 10 or more or 2 litters or ten puppies requires a kennel license.

 

[Linds]

Two animals. Including cats, so either one dog and one cat, two dogs or two cats.

Our house has three cats and three dogs. We listen well. It's not well enforced at all and in fact all the dogs are registered. It's one of those things they use if they want to get you for something else.

 

[Taqroy]

Here it's four dogs per household, I'm not sure about cats. But there are ways to get around it - I know that foster dogs don't count. In fact I know one lady who has 6 dogs and two are still technically "fostered" through the rescue. I have no idea if you can get a license to get more dogs or not. I think Matt would kill me long before we needed to look into that.

 

[stardogs]

No limit in the city here. I had to check HOA bylaws when we were looking to buy since many of them have their own limits. Usually 2 animals total.

 

[Ivy]

No limit here thankfully

 

[HayleyMarie]

I live in Parkland County, Alberta

On any residential parcel LESS than 0.81 ha (2 acres) in size, you are permitted to have a maximum of four (4) household pets (dogs or cats).

On any residential parcel MORE than 0.81 ha (2 acres) in size, you are permitted to have a maximum of four (4) dogs.

 

[Shai]

Limits have varied in the various places I've lived since Kim (first dog) moved in and I started paying attention to such things...

#1: 3-dog limit
#2: 3-dog limit (though if we lived a few blocks north, would've been 2)
#3: No limit, just normal noise/care rules
#4: 4-cats+dogs limit (temp lodging location earlier this year...toeing the line on that one...)
#5: No limit (current location)

 

[JessLough]

It's not well enforced at all and in fact all the dogs are registered. It's one of those things they use if they want to get you for something else.

Yah, it's not really enforced here, I'm sure you can register more than 2 dogs and still be fine. Old neighbours of mine had 3 dogs and like 14 cats (they kept breeding), and they were never dinged...

 

[Beanie]

No limit in the city here. I had to check HOA bylaws when we were looking to buy since many of them have their own limits. Usually 2 animals total.

Same - no official limit, it depends on the HOA. Technically our neighbourhood is two dogs, but there is no active HOA so nobody is there to enforce any of the bylaws. The bylaws were written like 50 years ago but there hasn't been an HOA for at least as long as we've lived there in 25-odd years. We've had three dogs before (Auggie, Happy, and Kota) and are about to have three again. We aren't jerks about it and our dogs aren't annoying, so nobody cares. They would have to work awfully hard to get an HOA re-established and get everybody to agree on the old bylaws if they wanted to do anything about it...

 

[Southpaw]

I think the law might be 2 dogs.

I don't know if it's enforced. There are plenty of people here who have more than 2 dogs. I don't license my dogs with the city either, and that's "required," so clearly I do a good job of abiding laws. So in conclusion, I don't know how anyone would even know how many dogs I had, unless I had a crabby neighbor.

 

[Red.Apricot]

I have no idea. I also don't know how to check. I tried the city website, and it doesn't seem to say.

 

[Saeleofu]

Here the limit is two, but you can get another permit for up to four, and if you want more than that you can get a private kennel permit.

It's not really enforced, though, just like licenses aren't enforced...or anything else for that matter.

 

[SarahHound]

I don't believe there are any dog or pet limits anywhere in the UK. Sometimes I wish there would be, hearing how many people get dogs and can't look after them.

I have a question, the places that do have dog limits, how are they enforced? I seem to remember my American penpal, who lives in Vegas, that they had a limit law there, of three, yet she has 5 dogs. She cares for them well, but I just wonder how she doesn't get caught, especially at there is 4 different breeds, so they all look different

 

[Toller_08]

I thought the limit here (Calgary, AB) was 3 and then I heard it was 4, but then was told last year by another person that there is no limit. I'm not sure. I meant to look into it once, but never did. Maybe I'll do that today since it seems a good thing to know. We've had up to four licensed dogs, and the city never said anything. If there is a limit, it is probably only enforced when there is a household dog problem where bylaw is constantly having to be called or something. I don't believe that they really check or care about the number of dogs living with people who are never a problem. Or maybe if you tried to license a pet over the city limit they would say something... I don't know.

 

[Picklepaige]

No limit. We don't even have dog registration or leash laws here. I'd never even heard of it before Chaz.

 

[CaliTerp07]

It's 3 dogs per property in the county. I can't imagine having more than that when the lots here are so tiny (.25 acres for SFH's, but a large percent of the area is townhomes and high rise condos/apartments)

 

[SaraB]

Here any more than 3 dogs/cats combined needs a special permit. Apparently it is only brought up by annoying neighbors who are scared of big dogs even when their own 20lb dog bites people and the big dogs don't even shoot a mean glance in their direction.