The Christchurch City Council is required by law to keep a register of all dogs in the area. To ensure this is kept up to date, a reminder notice is sent out in May and June to all registered dog owners to renew their registration.
If any unregistered dog is impounded, it must then be micro-chipped. Any registered dogs impounded more than once are also required to be micro-chipped.
How to register your dog
Either:
- Download a form below and post to:
Animal Control
Inspections and Enforcement Unit
Christchurch City Council
PO Box 73037
Christchurch 8154
- Drop in to any Council service centre
- Phone (03) 941 8666 and request a form.
- Update your registration details online.
Forms and fees
Dog registration update form [PDF 28KB] - use this form if you change address, buy or sell a previously registered dog, or in the case of the death of a dog.
How to microchip your dog
Please note the regular microchipping services on Fridays at the animal shleter will not be available until 20 January, 2012.
Dogs registered for the first time after 1 July 2006 are required by law to be micro-chipped (livestock working farm dogs are exempt). We strongly recommend that you microchip your dog anyway to ensure it is easily identified and quickly returned to you if lost.
Your veterinarian can microchip your dog for a small fee.
Additionally, the animal shelter also can microchip your dog, between 11am–12 noon on Fridays. It is free of charge for any dog required by law to be microchipped; for all other dogs there is a small fee.
Read more about the animal shelter's microchipping service [PDF 236KB].
