Doral, FL Animal Ordinances: Pet Limits (2026)

Section 3-29 sets a hard numeric ceiling: no owner or responsible person may keep, maintain, or harbor more than ten domestic animals on their premises, and within that total, no more than four dogs may reside there at any time. The cap exempts animal hospitals, pet stores, kennels, and similar businesses, but only if they hold a valid business tax receipt and certificate of use and sit in a zoning district that allows that kind of animal-related business. The limit sits in Chapter 3's general animal provisions, immediately after the at-large and nuisance rules in Sections 3-25 through 3-28, and Chapter 3's stated legislative intent, honoring the late Bibiana Salmon, ties the whole chapter to preventing cruelty through good husbandry and no-kill population control rather than simply capping numbers for its own sake.

In practice, the ten-animal, four-dog ceiling is the enforceable number code compliance uses when a complaint alleges someone is keeping too many animals at a residential address.