Pet Registry Do I Need To Register With All?

Every dog and true cat iii months of historic period and over must exist registered with your local quango. Existing registrations must be renewed by x April each year.

Your registration fee gives you lot more than just a lost and found service for your pet.

Notation: Where the possessor of a domestic dog or cat is nether the historic period of 18 years, the parent or guardian of that possessor will be accounted the legal owner of the domestic dog or cat and subject to any penalties/prosecutions.

Why pet registration is important

Pet registration is a legal requirement under the Domestic Animals Act 1994. You can be fined for not complying. However, in that location are many additional reasons to annals your pet.

Nosotros are often asked about the benefits of council registration, when microchipping volition assistance a lost pet find its way home. While microchipping provides a reunification service, there are many things that microchipping cannot provide that registration does. This department outlines some of the central community facilities and services that your dog and true cat's registration fee pays for.

Facilities

Your pet registration fees may go toward providing the following facilities:

dog parks, including off leash parks and fenced dog parks
dog poo bins
pounds and shelter facilities.

Reunification

Individualised registration tags for each of your registered dogs and cats.
Creature management staff to support the collection and return of devious animals to owners.

Events, inventive schemes and information

Events, incentive schemes and information may include:

costless information booklets and fact sheets
pet expos
community discounted microchip and desexing days
discount incentive schemes for new registrations
on-line Responsible Dog Buying eastward-learning course.

Animal management staff

Staff are needed to:

nourish to nuisance complaints such as barking complaints, true cat and dog trespassing complaints, wandering and stray animals
attend to and investigate dog assail/bite/rushing incidents
patrol parks, beaches and streets
pick up stray cats and dogs
manage and run pound and shelter facilities.

Grooming courses and programs are provided for animal management staff to ensure they have the most upwards-to-date data and skills in creature management

Animal management tools are provided to ensure animal management officers are able to perform their role in the near efficient and comprehensive way.

Domestic Animal Business compliance

Your registration fee ensures that local government have sufficient staff to audit Domestic Animal Businesses, such as:

pets shops
breeding facilities
boarding kennels
catteries
training establishments
shelters and pounds.

Auditing for compliance with the relevant mandatory codes of exercise under the Domestic Animals Act 1994 provides both consumer protection and creature welfare assurances for the community.

Dangerous and restricted breed dog direction

Your registration fees cover the costs of staff to enforce the control of dangerous, menacing and restricted breed dogs to ensure that owners are compliant with the legislation and ensure these dogs do non pose a threat to the customs.

In addition, the registration fee covers the cost of the Victorian Declared Dog Register — a database that tracks and records all:

declared unsafe dogs
menacing dogs
guard dogs
restricted breed dogs.

Dog seize with teeth and domestic dog attack education programs

Registration fees for dogs and cats in the community contribute to the following dog bite prevention programs:

'We are Family unit' is a community education plan provided costless of charge to expectant and new parents preparing or introducing a new family member to a dwelling with pets. The program provides learning tools for education sessions within antenatal and maternal and kid wellness programs and information booklets and guides. The 'Nosotros are Family' Program offers components of the 'Living safely with dogs' programme to families with infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
'Responsible Pet Ownership and Living Safely with Dogs' programs provide free pet didactics visits to more than than 2600 master and preschools in Victoria each year. The program includes a visit from a trained pet educator and their canis familiaris, costless curriculum activities, on-line games for children, parent training sessions and information booklets. The program teaches safety around dogs and responsible pet ownership.
Free community domestic dog bite prevention education resources.

Emergency animal welfare

Evacuation and relief centres

Your local council needs to know the number of dogs and cats within its municipality to ensure adequate evacuation and relief centres with enough resources are provided for anybody who may need to seek refuge with their animals.

Local councils too provide registration numbers of dogs and cats to supporting agencies and not-for-turn a profit fauna welfare agencies such equally the RSPCA and Fauna Assistance. This is so they can provide assistance items like:

cages
nutrient
bedding
bowls
leads
kitty litter
creature care staff
veterinarian support.

Identifying locations where animals may have been left behind

Local council tin can as well use registration information to place homes where animals may accept been left stranded in an evacuation. If you do not annals your animals, in the event of an emergency — no 1 will know they are in that location.

Registration could be the difference between your fauna being evacuated and cared for or non.

Exotic disease and biosecurity

The State Government uses pet registration information for responding to exotic disease threats that touch on cats and dogs. In the consequence of a disease outbreak, without proper cognition of the location of cats and dogs, the State Government does non know who to contact to prevent the spread or effectively plan the eradication of the illness.

Inquiry

The State Government uses pet registration fees equally a source of funding for research into dog and cat welfare. These inquiry programs provide the government and the general public with valid and reliable information to maximise the welfare of our pets.