What does my registration pay for?
Your registration fees pay for the Dog Control services that Council is required to provide, but it also covers a lot more.
It’s your registration fees that help support the many important activities of our animal services team. Those activities include
Facilities
- Developing the first dog park in Te Puke with two more to follow
- Dog shelters in Te Puke and Katikati
Reunification
- Reuniting animals with their owners
- Adopting unclaimed dogs to new families
Events
- Events including the Wander Dogs walks series, Doggy Day Out and more
Animal services team
Our team
- Investigate nuisance complaints such as barking and roaming dog complaints.
- Investigate dog attacks and bite/rushing incidents
- Collect stray dogs
- reunite animals with owners
- manage and run two shelters
- manages a dog adoption programme
Dangerous and restricted breed dog management
- Enforcing the rules around dangerous, menacing and restricted breed dogs
Emergency information
In an emergency our team can use registration and microchipping information to identify homes where dogs may have been stranded in an evacuation. If you don’t register and microchip your dog/s and there’s an emergency — no one will know they’re there.
Registration and microchipping could be the difference between your dog being evacuated and cared for or left stranded.
Still not convinced that registration is important?
Fines are more expensive than fees. If your dog isn’t registered or microchipped, you could get a $300 fine. So it is smart to do both, as it is legally required (working dogs are exempt from some microchipping requirements).
