Kitsap County, WA Animal Ordinances: Pet Limits (2026)

050(A)(3), a footnote to the county's zoning use tables, sets the operative limit on how many pets a household in unincorporated Kitsap County may keep. Pets kept entirely indoors as household pets in aquariums, terrariums, cages, or similar containers are not numerically limited, but other indoor pets besides cats are capped at five. For pets kept outside the primary structure, the limit scales with lot size: three per household on lots under twenty thousand square feet, only one of which may be a "nontraditional pet"; five per household on lots between twenty thousand and thirty-five thousand square feet, with up to two nontraditional pets; and, above thirty-five thousand square feet, an additional two pets per acre of site area, capped at a total of twenty.

590 as any pet other than a dog, cat, fish, agricultural livestock, or nonraptor bird, so exotic species count against the smaller sub-limit within the household total. Outdoor housing, feeding, or confinement structures for pets must sit no closer than the zone's minimum yard setback, and structures for nontraditional pets or exotic animals must be at least fifty feet from any residence on an adjacent property, per subsection (c). 455's farming rules. 050(i), a ten adult cat-or-dog ceiling absent written animal control authority consent.