Lee County's animal ordinance does not set a fixed maximum number of dogs or cats per household. It regulates by outcome—requiring direct control, humane care, and no nuisance—and treats keeping animals "for profit" as a kennel or cattery. Any household numeric cap comes from zoning, not Ord. 14-22.
Ordinance 14-22 licenses individual pets (dogs, cats, and ferrets four months or older) and requires each to be under direct control, adequately cared for, and not a nuisance, but it does not impose a numeric per-household limit. It distinguishes a "kennel or cattery"—premises where animals are kept for profit by boarding, breeding, selling, or similar—from personal pet-keeping. Hobby breeders keeping purebred dogs or cats for exhibition are treated separately. Any hard cap on the number of pets at a residence, if it exists, is set through the Land Development Code by zoning district, so check with Community Development.
No numeric-limit citation exists under the ordinance itself. Excess or poorly kept animals may be cited as nuisance animals, unlicensed animals, or unpermitted commercial kennels; fines set by BOCC resolution.
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