Orange County Animal Services

Commercial Kennel and Pet Dealer Registration

A business boarding, breeding, buying, hiring out or training dogs or cats for a fee — including a veterinary clinic offering boarding, or a retail location with a pet-related element covered by the county's 'commercial kennel or pet dealer' definition in Orange County Code Ch. 5, Art. II — needs an annual registration from Orange County Animal Services, priced at $26.00 a year, confirmed against the county's own Fee Directory. The registration cycle runs the county's October 1-September 30 fiscal year, and a business registering after April 1 in a given cycle pays half the annual rate for that partial year. Retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits by pet stores has been prohibited in Orange County since an ordinance passed around 2021-2022, which is directly relevant to any 'retail-store' operating as a pet shop. Circumstantial evidence points toward Animal Services' jurisdiction reaching inside Orlando city limits as well as the unincorporated area: Animal Services describes itself as the county's only open-admission pet shelter, residents countywide are directed to the shared 311 line for animal-services matters, and no separate City of Orlando animal-control department could be located anywhere, including on the city's own site. A commercial kennel or pet dealer operating inside Orlando should still confirm its own registration path directly with Animal Services (407-836-3111) given the absence of an explicit interlocal-agreement statement naming Orlando.