Ohio's licensing and at-large statutes (ORC Chapter 955) apply to dogs, not cats, so the county requires no cat license. Cat-related rules - leash, roaming, feral colonies, limits - are set by individual cities and villages, not Montgomery County.
Ohio's dog-licensing and running-at-large laws in ORC Chapter 955 do not cover cats, and the Montgomery County Animal Resource Center is primarily a dog-focused agency. There is no county cat license or countywide roaming rule. Whether cats must be confined, whether feral-cat feeding or trap-neuter-return colonies are regulated, and any per-household cat limit are all decided by municipal ordinance. Some Montgomery County cities address nuisance cats, sanitation and colony management in their animal-control or property-maintenance codes. Cruelty and abandonment remain crimes statewide under ORC 959.
Cat-related violations are handled under local municipal ordinances; statewide, animal cruelty and abandonment are offenses under ORC Chapter 959.
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