The Domestic Animal Management Plan sets out how we manage cats and dogs. It aims to:

• promote responsible pet ownership
• the welfare of cats and dogs in the community
• whilst protecting the community and environment from nuisance cats and dogs.

Our goal

We want to

• encourage responsible pet ownership
• minimise the risk of dog attacks on people and animals
• encourage pet owners to register their dogs and cats so their animal can be easily identified and returned.
• have an effective way to identify dangerous, menacing and restricted breed dogs to keep the community safe
• investigate ways to reduce the chance for dogs and cats to create a nuisance
• prevent over-population and high euthanasia (putting to permanent sleep) rates of domestic animals
• help pet owners to take responsibility for their animal’s behaviour.

We will use the Plan to:

• set rules for managing dogs and cats
• help the community to play their part as pet owners responsibly.

This will also direct how we will:

• invest time and resources
• support the management of domestic animals
• support the safety and wellbeing of the wider community.