Alabama law requires dogs be confined to the owner's premises. Ala. Code §3-1-5 orders every owner to keep dogs on their own land, and Mobile County enforces at-large and rabies rules through animal services.
The statewide baseline is Ala. Code §3-1-5: every person owning a dog must at all times confine it to the limits of their own premises or where the dog is regularly kept, a confinement duty that applies in a county once the county commission adopts it. Mobile County Animal Services handles at-large and nuisance-dog complaints across the unincorporated county, and the cities run their own animal control. A separate statewide mandate, Ala. Code §3-7A-2, requires every dog, cat, and ferret be vaccinated against rabies by three months of age and kept current. A loose dog can be impounded, and the owner bears liability for what the dog does off the property.
A dog running loose in violation of §3-1-5 can be impounded and the owner fined. Failing to keep a current rabies vaccination violates §3-7A-2. The owner is civilly liable for injury or damage a loose dog causes.
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