Animals and pets
Find information about your responsibilities as a pet owner, pet registration and regulations, and places to exercise your pets.
Subpages
- Keeping dogs
Find details of restrictions to the number of dogs you may keep, regulated dogs, fencing requirements and where you can exercise your dog off-leash.
- Keeping cats
Find details of restrictions to the number of cats you may keep and responsible cat ownership.
- Keeping other animals and birds
Find out the rules applying to keeping animals other than dogs and cats and keeping poultry and birds.
- Community education
Council actively promotes responsible pet ownership through education booths at parks and beaches and education programs designed for children.
- Animal pound
Council's pound is located at Tanawha. If your pet has been impounded, all fees must be paid before the animal is released.
- Lost and found animals
If a pet dog or cat is found roaming, council will try to identify and return the pet to its registered home.
- Barking and roaming
Find assistance on what to do about dogs that make excessive noise by barking, and details on what to do if you find a roaming dog or see a wild dog.
- Stray, injured or dead animals
Council provides assistance in relation to a number of animal issues including stray or feral cats, straying livestock, abused animals, dead animals on the roadside or dead marine life.
- Management plan for domestic animals (cats and dogs)
Council adopted the management plan for domestic animals (cats and dogs) 2021-2030 at its Ordinary Meeting on 24 June 2021.