How many dogs or cats you can keep in Port Moody
How many dogs or cats can I keep?
The City of Port Moody sets no limit on the number of dogs or cats you can keep, and no combined pet limit. The Fees Bylaw does treat anyone with four or more dogs as holding a $210 kennel licence. Livestock and poultry are banned on residential property.
Key facts
| Dogs allowed | None set. Port Moody's Animal Control Bylaw sets no maximum number of dogs per home.Read: Animal Control Bylaw, 2024, No. 3343 |
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| Cats allowed | None set. Port Moody's Animal Control Bylaw sets no maximum number of cats per home.Read: Animal Control Bylaw, 2024, No. 3343 |
| Other animal limits | No combined limit is set. Livestock and poultry may not be kept on residentially zoned property at all.Animal Control Bylaw, 2024, No. 3343, s. 16.1, s. 3.1 (Livestock, Poultry) · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-06Official wordingNo person shall keep Livestock or Poultry on or in any residentially zoned property. means cattle, goats, horses, sheep, swine, llamas, alpacas, ostriches includes a domestic fowl, waterfowl, pigeons, and peafowl |
| Exceptions | The Fees Bylaw treats a person who possesses four or more dogs as holding a kennel licence ($210), which replaces the individual dog licence fees. The bylaw text read does not say how a kennel licence is obtained or what it allows.Fees Bylaw, 2025, No. 3524 (consolidated PDF), Business Licence and Bylaw Enforcement, Dog Licences · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-06Official wordingKennel Licence (for which a person shall be considered having same if said person possesses four or more dogs in lieu of individual Fees) 210.00 |
| Fine | Not confirmed. No ticket for keeping too many animals appears in the City's ticket schedule. |
| Bylaw | City of Port Moody Animal Control Bylaw, 2024, No. 3343Animal Control Bylaw, 2024, No. 3343, s. 1.1 · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-06Official wordingThis Bylaw may be cited as “City of Port Moody Animal Control Bylaw, 2024 No. 3343”. |
How it works
The City of Port Moody's Animal Control Bylaw does not set a maximum number of dogs or cats per home, and no combined pet limit appears in it or the Zoning Bylaw. Keeping livestock or poultry on residentially zoned property is not allowed at all.
Good to know
- The Fees Bylaw treats a person with four or more dogs as holding a kennel licence ($210), in place of individual dog licence fees. The bylaw text does not say how to get a kennel licence or what it allows. Ask Licensing at 604-469-4541.
- Every dog needs a licence (see the dog licence answer). Cats over six months must be spayed or neutered and identified under the bylaw.
- The Animal Control Bylaw mentions a "breeder's permit" for cats but gives no detail.
- No ticket for keeping too many animals appears in the ticket schedule.
Official forms and pages
The same question in other places
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Sources
- Animal Control Bylaw, 2024, No. 3343 (PDF) (read 2026-11-05)
- Fees Bylaw, 2025, No. 3524 (consolidated PDF) (read 2026-11-05)
- Dog Licences, City of Port Moody (read 2026-11-05)
Checked by script, not yet by a person: the official wording behind 3 of 6 facts was matched to the official text; 2 are recorded as not set; 1 could not be confirmed. How answers are checked.