Register your dog
About dog registration
Register a new dog or puppy
Renew registration
Replacement discs and straps
Manukau dog owners - if your dog's details are wrong
About dog registration
It is important to register your dog every year as part of being a responsible dog owner. The registration period is from 1 July-30 June each year.
If you are the owner of a dog, the registration guidelines are:
- all dogs must be registered before they turn three months old
- they should be registered at the address where they spend most of the time
- if you are under 16 years of age, the dog must be registered under a parent's or guardian's name
- you can reduce the registration fee if you have your dog de-sexed and/or by obtaining a dog owner licence (in some areas, previously called "responsible dog owner status")
- if you have an unregistered dog you may be prosecuted.
A dog must wear a colour coded registration disc to show it has been registered for that year (the 2011/2012 colour is yellow, the 2010/2011 colour was green).
If your dog is lost, he or she can be quickly identified using the registration tag.
Some areas do not allow more than one registered dog owner, so only one person will show on the form. Legally a person can be the dog’s owner without being the registered dog owner.
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Register a new dog or puppy
1. Download and complete the application form (see the right-hand side of the page) and read the information sheet.
2. Attach any information supporting the registration of your dog, for example:
- if your dog has been de-sexed, please supply a copy of the veterinary certificate
- if you have completed a dog owner licence test, please provide a copy of your dog owner licence, or your dog owner licence number with your registration form.
3. Send the registration form (all pages), any attachments and the relevant fee to:
- Animal administration
Auckland Council
Private Bag 92300
Auckland 1142
4. If you are registering under the registration class E ("Superannuitant with SuperGold Card and CSC") for the first time, you must register in person at a council service centre with your Super Gold Card showing a current Community Services Card notation on the back.
5. You can pay in person at any of the following service centres. Remember to take your dog owner licence and/or, vet certificate and/or a microchip barcode and/or Super Gold Card showing a current Community Services Card notation if you have them:
Registration payments can also be made at your local service centre:
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Renew registration
If your dog has been previously registered with Auckland Council (or any former Auckland council), you should receive a renewal notice in mid-June of each year.
When you receive your renewal form you can register your dog by post, in person or, in some areas, online using a credit card:
By post
You can send the registration form and payment to:
- Animal administration
Auckland Council
Private Bag 92300
Auckland 1142
In person
Pay in person at any of the service centres listed above.
If you haven't received your renewal form by the third week of June, please download a registration form from the See also section on the right and send your payment to us.
Online with a credit card
In some areas, you can renew your dog's registration online using a credit card:
Please note: You will not be able to complete your registration online if any of the following information is missing from the renewal form or if your or your dog’s details have has changed since the last registration year:
- class of dog
- your address
- change of owner
- date of birth of owner.
Payments made after 2 August do not qualify for the "early bird" discounted fees.
Currently you cannot renew your dog’s registration online if your dog was registered with Manukau City Council, Franklin District Council or Papakura District Council. We hope to have services in place for these areas by June 2012.
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Replacement discs and straps
If you have lost your dog's registration disc or strap, you can get a replacement for $5 (GST inclusive). The replacement disc or strap will have a new registration number.
Write to us
Complete the application to register a dog form (from the right), ticking the “replacement tag option” including the dog's old disc or strap number (if you know it) and send it with payment to:
- Animal administration
Auckland Council
Private Bag 92300
Auckland 1142
Visit us
Replacement discs and straps are available from the service centres listed above.
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Lower fee for de-sexed dogs
If you can provide proof that your dog has been de-sexed you will qualify for the lower fee. If you no longer hold that proof we will accept the owner hand-amending the details on the registration form to 'neutered' and qualifying for the lower fee. All changes made by the dog owner must be initialled and the form signed.
By signing the declaration section (on the registration form), you are declaring and verifying that all the details on the form are true and correct.
As per Section 41 of the Dog Control Act 1996, it is an offence to falsify the information and anyone found doing so may be liable to further action - including issuing of an infringment notice ($750) or, on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding $3,000.
Help
For further assistance, please email the Animal management team south or phone 09 262 8900 and speak to:
- Margaret Ferguson, Contracts Manager, extension 8464
- Tanya Henderson, Team Leader, Process Support extension 8677 or
- Delaney Crichton, Process Support extension 8273.
Background
Dog registration fees in Manukau have not previously been based on whether a dog was de-sexed or not and so this information has not been formally recorded in our internal Manukau system before. The new regional fee structure is based on whether a dog owner has a dog owners licence or not, and whether a dog is de-sexed or not.
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