Caddo Parish, LA Animal Ordinances: Breed Restrictions (2026)

Section 8-67 governs both classifications. Under subsection (a), the animal control center investigates reported incidents and, if it finds a dog meets the dangerous-dog definition in section 8-2, classifies it and notifies the owner in writing, logging it in the dangerous dog database. Within 30 days of classification the owner must: buy and permanently affix a dangerous dog collar supplied by animal control; have the dog microchipped at the owner's expense; notify animal control immediately if the dog gets loose, bites a human, attacks another animal, is sold, given away, dies, or moves address; confine the dog indoors or in a securely fenced, locked enclosure at least six feet by eight feet or 48 square feet with sides that prevent escape; post a warning sign at every entry point; and, if taken off the property, keep it muzzled and on a substantial leash or chain no longer than four feet, under an adult's control.

The animal control center may also require spaying or neutering and inspections. Owners may appeal a dangerous classification to the animal services board within ten days, and from there to the parish commission, and to the First Judicial District Court within ten days of that ruling; failure to timely appeal makes the classification final. Vicious dogs, defined in section 8-2 as those that have attacked and caused severe injury or death, or repeated the conduct of a dangerous dog, are impounded and, absent an owner appeal filed within ten days of notification, are euthanized. Section 8-2 explicitly rejects breed as a basis for the vicious designation: 'No dog shall be deemed vicious simply by its breed.'