Kootenai County uses its kennel-license limit, impoundment powers, and Idaho's animal-cruelty statutes to address hoarding. Keeping more than five dogs without a license, or animals in inadequate conditions, allows impoundment and state cruelty charges.
The county attacks hoarding through several tools rather than a single "hoarding" section. Code 5.1.201 caps dogs at five per parcel without a kennel license and requires an inspection confirming adequate shelter. Code 5.1.114 lets animal control impound animals kept as a public nuisance or in danger. Idaho's animal-cruelty law, Idaho Code 25-3502 and 25-3504, makes it a crime to deprive an animal of necessary sustenance, care, or shelter. Serious neglect cases are prosecuted as misdemeanors under state law, with animals subject to seizure.
State animal cruelty (Idaho Code 25-3504) is a misdemeanor, with fines, possible jail, and forfeiture of animals. County-kept unlicensed excess or nuisance animals may be impounded under 5.1.114.
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