Shreveport, LA Animal Ordinances: Microchipping (2026)

Section 14-49 governs hoofed animals kept in the city, including horses, mules, cows, sheep, and goats, and subsection (5) singles out horses for mandatory permanent identification: a microchip, freeze band, or tattoo. That identification requirement sits alongside a separate mandate in subsection (4) that every horse carry a current negative Coggins test for Equine Infectious Anemia from within the past 12 months; an owner who can't produce that documentation faces immediate impoundment of the horse. 00 for the third, and forfeiture of the animal on a fourth offense.

These rules sit inside the broader hoofed-animal scheme: horses, mules, asses, and cows are capped at five per premises, and sheep or goats at ten, with minimum housing footprints of 200 square feet per large animal and 150 square feet per sheep or goat, and location setbacks of 250 feet from a neighbor's residence or a nearby business. For dogs and cats, by contrast, chapter 14 treats microchipping as optional: § 14-16(3)(b) lets an owner choose a permanent microchip in lieu of an annual rabies registration tag, so long as the animal still gets registered every year.