Farmersville, TX Animal Ordinances: Pet Limits (2026)

Sec. 11-41 sets the city's animal-count ceiling under Article III, Animal Nuisances. Subsection (a) declares that keeping more than the maximum number of animals permitted by the chapter is itself a public nuisance. Subsection (b) caps the aggregate number of domestic animals at four. Subsection (c) makes the dog-and-cat rule explicit: it is unlawful to keep or harbor more than four dogs and four cats in the aggregate, counting only animals six months of age or older, on any premises in the city. Because the section counts dogs and cats together rather than separately, a household could not, for example, keep three dogs and three cats at once, since that totals six and exceeds the four-animal aggregate.

The rule sits alongside other Chapter 11 nuisance provisions: Sec. 11-42 separately makes excessive animal noise lasting more than 15 minutes a nuisance, and Sec. 11-72(b) caps rabbits and guinea pigs at two per premises, showing the code sets species-specific limits rather than one blanket household cap.