How To Register New Dog

Canis familiaris registration

Dog registration is an almanac fee payable each year. All dog registrations elapse on xxx June each year and canis familiaris owners have until one August to renew their registration without penalty and at the discounted rate.

Payments received by31 July each year are discounted in line with Dog Direction Fees and Charges.

Dogs must be microchipped and registered before they accomplish the age of 12 weeks old. Contact your vet for more details on microchipping your dog.

The registration fee varies depending on whether the dog is a working dog, whether or not it is desexed, or classified as dangerous. (Annotation: there is no added charge for a menacing classification).

Animal fees

Virtually registration fees

Registration fees are paid annually and used to maintain and raise canis familiaris safety, management and enforcement. We do not profit from canis familiaris fees.

The fee structure is designed to reward good domestic dog buying. You tin reduce your fees by neutering or spaying your domestic dog (desexing).

Registering your dog pays for:

enforcing the Canis familiaris Control Human activity and related bylaws
education programmes and campaigns for schools and community or business groups
dog direction, including police force enforcement, patrols and attending to complaints and incidents
administering the animal direction offices and kennels (dog pound)
administering our dog management programme.

An infringement of $300 may be issued if you are constitute to have an unregistered canis familiaris. All dogs must wear a current registration tag and so they tin be identified.

Brute fees

Registered later 1 August

If whatever puppy, or canis familiaris entering New Zealand, is to be registered later ane August, the fee shall be 1/12^th of the annual fee for each calendar month remaining in the registration year, later the date of such registration.

Discounted fees for desexed domestic dog

Owners wishing to claim a reduced fee for dogs desexed in the terminal 12 months must produce a document from a veterinary at the time the domestic dog is registered certifying that the dog has been desexed.

If the canis familiaris has been registered, the reduced fee won't apply till the following registration yr.

Dog registration refunds

If your domestic dog passes away, you need to notify us and specifically request a refund.

Information technology is of import that you exercise this as soon every bit possible, equally the refunds are calculated on the number of total months left in the registration year, from the date we receive your written notification.

The request for a refund needs to be accompanied by either:

the current registration tag of the deceased dog
a certificate or an invoice from a Veterinary Clinic confirming that the dog has passed away.

Yous will also need to provide proof of your bank business relationship every bit all refunds are made to the owner'south bank business relationship.

Refunds are not available if your dog changes buying or y'all sign your dog over to animal direction.

Lost dogs / change of district

We will not refund a proportion of the registration fee in respect of a canis familiaris that has been lost, or has changed owners or districts within New Zealand.

Microchip your domestic dog

Inserting a microchip is a harmless and straightforward procedure which is done past your vet. It means that if a dog is lost and is not wearing its registration tag it can exist identified easily by scanning the microchip tag.

As all dogs registered for the first fourth dimension on or afterwards ane July 2006 have to be microchipped all dogs in New Zealand must now exist microchipped.

Working farm dogs that are kept solely or principally for the purpose of driving or herding stock are exempt from microchipping.

Failure to microchip a dog could result in an infringement notice, possible prosecution and a $300 fine.

Dog registration and chipping are two divide processes - you must register your domestic dog every year but microchipping needs to exist done merely in one case.

Why yous should microchip your dog

Microchipping helps u.s. to:

place dogs that are roaming or lost
reunite dogs with their owners
keep track of dangerous or menacing dogs.

The Dog Register

The New Zealand regime requires united states of america to go along a database of dogs registered in the Whangārei Commune.

Please permit us know if your dog'south circumstances alter.

Information kept on the annals includes:

name, accost, and date of nativity of the owner of the dog (allows for you lot to be distinguished from someone with the same proper name and is a legal requirement)
accost where the domestic dog is kept
clarification of the domestic dog eastward.1000. breed, colour, distinguishing markings
the age and sex of the dog (including whether the dog is desexed or not)
whether the canis familiaris is classified as a unsafe or menacing dog
description of any tattoo or microchip transponder that provides other permanent identification on the dog.

If you move to another council'due south area, notify u.s. and the other council in writing, within xiv days, and please provide: