Colorado Springs, CO Animal Ordinances: Mandatory Spay/Neuter (2026)

Colorado Springs bans owning any hog or pig within the city outright under § 6.7.110.C, but § 6.7.110.D carves out a narrow exception for potbellied pigs that comply with a specific list of conditions, and subsection D.5 is the mandatory-alteration piece of that list: every female potbellied pig must be spayed and every male neutered by the time it turns four months old, and the City will not allow an unaltered pig of either sex to be kept or to breed inside city limits. The surrounding conditions in § 6.7.110.D reinforce the same intent, the owner must register the pig with the City's animal control services provider immediately after acquiring it and pay a $75 registration fee (D.1), the pig cannot exceed 100 pounds (D.2), no more than two potbellied pigs are allowed per household and the combined total of dogs, cats and pigs in one household cannot exceed four animals (D.3), every pig must be tattooed or microchipped before it turns four months old (D.4), and any pig taken off the owner's property must be on a leash under ten feet long and wear an identification harness (D.6–D.7).

Because the spay/neuter deadline lines up with the same four-month age used for microchipping, a potbellied pig owner effectively has one veterinary visit window to satisfy both requirements. Violating any condition in § 6.7.110.D, including keeping an unaltered pig past four months, makes the pig's presence in the City unlawful under the section's closing sentence, independent of the general prohibition on hogs and pigs in subsection C.