Mount Pleasant, SC Animal Ordinances: Cat Rules (2026)

The Town of Mount Pleasant treats cat and dog rules identically for licensing purposes. 54 requires any cat over six months of age to wear a collar or harness carrying a tag issued by a licensed veterinarian showing current rabies vaccination; going without the tag is unlawful regardless of whether the cat is kept strictly indoors. 65 lets the Animal Control Officer seize and impound any cat found running at large, though a harmless, vaccinated, tagged cat that isn't a nuisance may be exempted from impoundment at the officer's discretion, a discretion that disappears once a nuisance complaint is lodged against that animal.

66: any resident whose property is adopted as a home by a homeless or unwanted cat has a duty to cooperate with the Animal Control Officer in impounding it. 70 lets someone else claim the cat. 71 gives the Charleston Animal Society Shelter discretion to adopt the cat out, medically treat it, or process it under the Free Roaming Cat Program, run by Humane Net, which the town has adopted as controlling over any conflicting provision elsewhere in the chapter. Selling or giving any cat for experimentation, research, or food is barred outright.