Registering your pet

Pet registrations: 

All dogs and cats must be registered to their local council by the time they are three months old under state legislation.

Registering your cat or dog greatly improves their chances of being returned to you if they become lost.

Registration fees provide a whole range of other important services too - as a minimum you will get:

• A Council identification marker for your pet to wear
• Lost and found service - a guarantee that if your pet is found wearing the registration tag you will be notified.
• Council services to respond to calls about wandering dogs or dog attacks. This includes the removal of aggressive dogs from the streets.
• Council services to deal with nuisance problems such as barking dogs.
• Council control of ‘dangerous’, ‘menacing’ and ‘restricted breed’ dogs in your area.
• Council monitoring of pet shops, boarding kennels, catteries, pounds, shelters and breeding and training businesses.

Microchipping your pets

Council has a better chance of finding your lost cats and dogs if they are registered and microchipped.

New applications to register a dog or cat will not be accepted unless the dog / cat has been implanted with a microchip (of which proof must be provided). 

Desexing your pets

Dogs & Cats

To be eligible for a reduced fee for pet registration your pet must be desexed and microchipped.

Proof of desexing and microchipping is required at the time of registering your pet to receive the reduced fee.

Renewing your registration

Council sends a notice to all registered pet owners to renew their registration by the 10 April every year.  Failure to register may result in fines.

Renewal payments can be made:

• Online via BPay - details are provided on the Domestic Animal Registration Notice 
• In person at Council's Customer Service Centre, 22 Nolan Street, Maryborough

New registration payments can only be made:

• In person at Council's Customer Service Centre, 22 Nolan Street, Maryborough.