Don’t fur-get pet registration

WITH Easter now behind us, the Moorabool Shire is asking residents to make sure their pets are registered.

Last financial year, 8243 cats and dogs were registered with the shire.

Ensuring your pet has an up-to-date registration tag ensures the shire can reunite you will your pet using the tag, bypassing the pound, if your furry friend gets lost.

Reduced dog and cat registration fees of $69 and $62.80 respectively can be issued if the pet is desexed, over 10 years of age, or kept for breeding at a registered domestic animal business, or registered with an applicable organisation and the owner is also a member of that applicable organisation, a dog that has undergone obedience training with an approved organisations, or a dog kept for the purpose of working stock.

Otherwise, the fee is $213.20, unless the pet is a foster animal or has been declared dangerous, menacing, or of a restricted breed.

Registration renewals are due by April 10 each year.

As a requirement under the Domestic Animals Act 1994, all dogs and cats over the age of three months must be registered with the shire.

For more information, head to moorabool.vic.gov.au/registeranimal