Register your dog

• Dog registration fees aid the welfare of dogs and keeps our community safe from dog nuisance.
• They help us to investigate dog complaints, such as reports of dog attacks and complaints about dogs barking and stray dogs
• They help us maintain our dog database and provide dog safety education for children and workgroups.
• Provide a dog pound and shelter services: impounding, animal care and reuniting dogs with their owners
• Rehoming dogs through our connection with organisations such as SPCA, HUHA and Ellie’s Canine Rescue
• Provide dog safety education for dog owners, schools and the public
• Enforce compliance with dog owner responsibilities, issue infringements and patrol public spaces such as beaches and parks
• With legal costs for serious dog related offences under the Dog Control Act.

As part of preparing the Draft Long term Plan, the Council carefully considered the level of fees proposed, alongside the Revenue and Financing Policy which guides what portion of our costs will be funded through rates and which portion will be funded through fees and charges and other revenue.

As a part of this process, Council identified that the percentage of fees recovered by the dog owner for the dog control activity needed to increase, to recover more from the dog owner as the primary user. This has been the main driver of the fees increase.

You can register online. Which can be done at any time between 10.00am 1 July 2024 and 5.00pm 31 July 2024 to avoid a 50% penalty fee.

You can register in person at any of the council offices.

You need to provide the renewal form which should have all current details listed (phone, email address dog details etc)

If you have misplaced you renewal form we may be able to provide a copy.

If you don’t have a dog renewal form because it is a new dog you will need to complete a new registration form, which can also be done online and at our Council offices.

Make sure to choose whether you’d like a strip or round tag.

Yes, you can get a refund of the unexpired portion of the registration fee.

Where the fee for the registration of a dog is paid and that dog dies, a refund will be made on request as follows:

• where a dog dies before the commencement of the year, the full fee will be refunded;
• where the dog dies during the year, one-twelfth of the annual fee for each complete month remaining in the registration year after the date of application for a refund will be refunded. 

Yes, you can set up a payment arrangement however it must be paid in full by the 31 July 2024 to avoid a 50% penalty fee.

To set up a payment arrangement you must come into the Levin office and complete a pre payment application.

When reviewing the fees and charges the officers identified that there were the same amount of time and services provided to a owner was has a puppy and a owner of a older dog.

As such the cost associated with and puppy and a dog are generally the same.