{"id":277864,"date":"2026-04-21T02:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:41:12","slug":"sacramento-could-allow-four-dogs-under-new-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277864\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento could allow four dogs under new ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento residents could own more dogs, with some restrictions, under a new ordinance.<\/p>\n

The maximum number of pooches allowed in a dwelling unit will rise to four, up from three canines allowed under the current city code. Under the proposed ordinance, a person would be able to own four dogs older than four months, once each are spayed or neutered.<\/p>\n

The proposed ordinace would not change the limits of three swine and seven cats.<\/p>\n

The ordinance will hopefully help the Front Street Shelter increase its adoptions, said spokeperson Ryan Hinderman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat could have a positive impact,\u201d he said during Wednesday\u2019s animal well-being commission meeting.<\/p>\n

Commissioners also sought to amend the ordinance to require cats to also undergo spay or neuter, among other recommendations.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s animal well-being commission added its recommendations to amend the ordinance during the meeting and voted Wednesday to forward the ordinance to the City Council.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento proposed ordinance brings the city\u2019s laws similar to other jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

Sacramento County allows four dogs and cats per property, according to the Sacramento County Bradshaw Animal Shelter.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published April 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM.<\/p>\n

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The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Ishani Desai is a government watchdog reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously covered crime and courts for The Bakersfield Californian.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento residents could own more dogs, with some restrictions, under a new ordinance. The maximum number of pooches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-277864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}