Registering your cat or dog with us is easy. Simply follow the steps described on this page to register and pay for your animal and keep a record of the online payment for yourself.
As a requirement of the Domestic Animals Act 1994, your dog or cat must be microchipped and registered with us if they are over 3 months old. You may receive an infringement if you do not register your cat or dog.
Assistance, guide, customs and border force dogs must be registered (see specific forms found on this page), but there is no fee or renewal process.
Pet registrations expire on 9 April each year. You will receive a reminder in February to ensure payment is made by 10 April to renew your pet registration for the following year.
Benefits of registering your pet
- Support or enhance dog park facilities, such as dog waste bins.
- Support animal management staff in returning animals to their owners.
- Support training to develop the skills of animal management staff.
- Action on nuisance response complaint, such as barking dogs, trespassing complaints, wandering and stray animals
- Ensure presence of park and street patrols.
- Enjoy discounted registration for de-sexed animals.
- Dangerous and restricted breed dog management.
Assistance dogs (fee exempt)
Assistance dogs are exempt from registration fees if they meet the criteria. To be eligible, the owner of an assistance dog must make an application and provide reasonable evidence that:
- the applicant has a disability that requires an assistance dog
- the dog has been trained to alleviate the effect(s) of the disability (as per the definition of assistance dog under Equal Opportunity Act 2010)
- the dog has completed obedience training
- the dog is at least 12 months old .
Register your assistance dog(PDF, 166KB)
Guide, customs and border force dogs (fee exempt)
There is no fee to register active guide dogs (inlcuding in training) or working dogs carrying out duties for a department or agency of the state or Commonwealth, including police, border force or customs.
A certificate or agreement must be supplied with your registration for the exemption to be applied.
Register your guide or working dog(PDF, 124KB)
Keeping a dangerous dog breed
In public places, your dog must be:
- muzzled and
- on a chain, cord or leash.
Your dog must always wear a red and yellow striped collar, and you must display signage at the entrances of your home.
You must keep your dog behind an escape-proof 1.8 m solid or mesh fence if it is guarding.
At home, your dog must:
- be registered
- wear the Council marker
- be permanently identified by microchip.