Bannock County, ID Animal Ordinances: Pet Limits (2026)

Bannock County Code Section 17.04.080 sets the numeric line for household pet-keeping through its definition of 'kennel': more than four dogs and/or more than four cats age six months or older on one property, or any number of dogs or cats kept for sale, placement, boarding, care or breeding in exchange for a fee. A household with four or fewer adult dogs and four or fewer adult cats is simply a residential use and is not treated as a kennel. Once a property exceeds either the four-dog or four-cat count, or takes in animals commercially regardless of number, it is reclassified as a kennel use under Title 17, Zoning, and becomes subject to the zoning ordinance's use table for kennels rather than the unrestricted keeping allowed for ordinary pets.

The zoning use regulations summary at Chapter 17.48 lists 'Kennels' separately by whether animals are kept fully indoors or outdoors, with different permitted-use status by zoning district, including Agricultural, Residential Rural, Residential Suburban, Recreation, Commercial General, Light Industrial and Wholesale, and Industrial. A resident in unincorporated Bannock County who wants to keep more than four dogs or four cats outdoors, or who boards, breeds or sells animals for a fee, should confirm with Planning and Development Services whether that use is permitted, conditionally permitted, or not permitted at all in the applicable zoning district before the animal count crosses the threshold, since the classification change carries its own site plan or conditional use permit requirements rather than a flat numeric ban.