Kenner, LA Animal Ordinances: Breed Restrictions (2026)

Kenner's dangerous-animal ordinance is behavior-based rather than breed-based. Sec. 4-83 defines a dangerous animal as any dog or other animal that, when unprovoked, bites, injures, assaults or attacks a person or domestic animal, chases or approaches someone in a menacing manner, has a known propensity to attack, or has been quarantined for rabies observation twice within two years. A fierce animal is one that is not securely confined and jeopardizes a postal carrier, meter reader or other lawful visitor, or chases vehicles menacingly. A vicious animal has, without provocation, inflicted severe injury on a person, killed a domestic animal off the owner's property, reoffended after already being declared dangerous, or is kept for dog fighting.

Under Sec. 4-87, it is unlawful to own, possess or harbor any animal so declared except under the chapter's terms: vicious animals must be securely confined within a building or locked enclosure so they cannot contact anyone but the owner; dangerous animals must be kept in a fenced yard or building unless a more restrictive order applies; fierce animals must likewise be confined to a building or fenced yard. Sec. 4-88 further bars taking a vicious animal outside its enclosure except for veterinary care, muzzled and restrained on a chain of at least 300-pound tensile strength and no more than three feet long. If a severe, unprovoked attack kills a person, Sec. 4-87(e) deems the animal a public menace that must be euthanized.