St. Petersburg, FL Animal Ordinances: Pet Limits (2026)

City Code § 4-8(a) sets numeric ceilings: no more than the combination of five adult dogs, or their equivalent, on site at a residence for longer than 24 hours, and no more than three adult dogs, or their equivalent, at a multi-family residence for longer than 24 hours. Subsection (b) defines the conversion math, an adult dog is the base measurement unit, one dog equals one miniature sheep or goat, one dog equals two cats or fowl (so three cats count as one-and-a-half dogs, rounded to two), and a Vietnamese pig equals two dogs.

'Residence' means a single-family unit or duplex; it excludes garage apartments, triplexes, quadraplexes, apartment complexes, condominiums and cooperative buildings, which instead fall under the tighter three-pet 'multi-family residence' cap. 'Adult' means an animal at least six calendar months old or of average adult size for its type. ) kept longer than 24 hours. The ordinance was adopted by Ord. No. 134-H in 2014 specifically to address multi-pet households and rescue fostering situations where animal counts had become a neighborhood nuisance issue.