Pembroke Pines, FL Animal Ordinances: Cat Rules (2026)

Section 91.01, carried over from the 1969 Code § 4-1 and adopted by Ordinance 329 in 1973, is the city's only cat-specific ordinance in Chapter 91: Pembroke Pines has no separate cat licensing law, at-large restriction, or feral colony program in its own code. Division (A) makes it unlawful for any person walking dogs or cats to allow the dogs or cats to defecate on the private property of others, or on city property. Division (B) extends that duty to the swales that line city streets, but only bars leaving the mess: it is unlawful to let a dog or cat defecate on a city swale unless the defecation is removed by the person.

Division (C) closes a landlord-tenant gap: for a tenant who owns the dog or cat, the ordinance says the land the landlord owns where the rental unit sits shall not be considered private property for the purpose of this section, so the tenant is not shielded from cleanup duty by the fact that the ground under the unit belongs to someone else. Because § 91.10's county-licensing cross-reference applies only to dogs, cats in Pembroke Pines are not independently licensed or vaccinated under the municipal code; owners instead pick up under this cleanup duty when the animal is out on a walk.