Found A Pet?

If you have found a pet, please notify Council on 1300 653 356. If owners are looking for it and you fail to report the animal, they may not be able to find it.

Protect Your Pet!

Some lost dogs are never reunited with their owners as they can't be identified. Your dog must wear a current council registration tag to help us reunite you and your pet if you are separated. It's also a good idea to have an ID tag with your name and address.

 

Impounded Pets

Councils are required to keep a dog for 8 days if it's impounded. If your dog is in the pound, you must collect it and pay a fee plus any fines for relevant offences.

Lost dogs

Pets can make a positive contribution to our community and we want to make it easier for Kingston residents to be responsible pet owners.

Dogs collected by Council’s rangers will now be returned to owner’s workplaces in or to a nominated emergency contact in Kingston.

In the past, if an owner wasn’t home or couldn’t be contacted, their lost dog would be taken to the Lost Dogs Home in Cranbourne for later collection. Our officers will now be able to drop the dog at the owners’ workplace or to an emergency contact if they are available to take the dog within 30 minutes.

Council will also introduce a first-time warning notice that will be issued to owners of registered dogs found wandering at large. 

We've also waived the fee for replacing lost dog tags.