How many dogs or cats you can keep in Sayward
How many dogs or cats can I keep in Sayward?
Short answer
In Sayward, keeping more than three dogs or more than three cats is an offence under the Animal Control Bylaw. Each carries a $200 ticket. Keeping livestock is also a ticket offence ($100). Exceptions are in a bylaw posted only as a scan, so ask the Village Office.
Key facts
| Dogs allowed | Keeping more than three dogs is an offence (Animal Control Bylaw s. 5.2).Ticketing for Bylaw Offences Bylaw No. 422 (consolidated, PDF), Schedule 2 · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingKeep more than three dogs 5.2 200.00 |
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| Cats allowed | Keeping more than three cats is an offence (Animal Control Bylaw s. 5.10).Ticketing for Bylaw Offences Bylaw No. 422 (consolidated, PDF), Schedule 2 · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingKeep more than three cats 5.10 200.00 |
| Other animal limits | Keeping livestock is a ticket offence (s. 5.3, "Prohibited keeping of livestock"). The Zoning Bylaw allows agriculture in all zones "excluding the keeping of livestock".Ticketing for Bylaw Offences Bylaw No. 422 (consolidated, PDF), Schedule 2; Zoning Bylaw No. 309, 2000 (consolidated, PDF), s. 301(1)(e) · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingProhibited keeping of livestock 5.3 100.00 Agricultural use excluding the keeping of livestock |
| Exceptions | Not confirmed. The Village's Animal Control Bylaw is posted only as a scan, so any exceptions could not be read. |
| Fine | $200 for more than three dogs (s. 5.2); $200 for more than three cats (s. 5.10); $100 for prohibited keeping of livestock (s. 5.3).Ticketing for Bylaw Offences Bylaw No. 422 (consolidated, PDF), Schedule 2 · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingKeep more than three dogs 5.2 200.00 Keep more than three cats 5.10 200.00 Prohibited keeping of livestock 5.3 100.00 |
| Bylaw | Animal Control Bylaw No. 418, 2015Ticketing for Bylaw Offences Bylaw No. 422 (consolidated, PDF), Schedule 1, row 2 · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingAnimal Control Bylaw No. 418, 2015 |
How it works
The Village's Animal Control Bylaw No. 418, 2015 sets pet limits. It is posted only as a scan, so the limits below come from the offences listed in the Village's Ticketing Bylaw No. 422.
- More than three dogs is an offence (s. 5.2): $200 ticket.
- More than three cats is an offence (s. 5.10): $200 ticket.
- Keeping livestock is an offence (s. 5.3): $100 ticket. The Zoning Bylaw also allows agriculture "excluding the keeping of livestock".
- Keeping wild or exotic animals (s. 5.4) and unauthorized keeping of animals outdoors (s. 5.1) are also ticket offences. Details are not readable.
Steps
- If you have, or plan to have, more than three dogs or cats, call the Village Office at 250-282-5512 first.
- Ask whether any exception applies. None could be read.
Good to know
- The limits are listed per kind of animal (dogs, cats), not combined.
- Pets other than dogs and cats, such as birds, rabbits or reptiles, are not covered by any readable Village document.
- Exceptions are not stated in the text we could read.
Official forms and pages
The same question in other places
Campbell River · Gold River · Tahsis · Alert Bay · Courtenay · Cumberland
Sources
- Animal Control Bylaw No. 418, 2015 (Village bylaw page; the PDF is a scan) (read 2026-11-08)
- Ticketing for Bylaw Offences Bylaw No. 422 (consolidated, PDF) (read 2026-11-08)
- Zoning Bylaw No. 309, 2000 (consolidated, PDF) (read 2026-11-08)
- Staff Directory, Village of Sayward (read 2026-11-08)
Checked by script, not yet by a person: the official wording behind 5 of 6 facts was matched to the official text; 1 could not be confirmed. How answers are checked.