Register your pet

All registrations for cats and dogs have a full price and a reduced price.  

Please check the Fees tab below for a detailed fee structure.  

You are eligible for a reduced fee if your dog or cat is:

• Desexed
• Over 10 years old
• Kept for breeding by the proprietor of a domestic animal business conducted on registered premises, or
• Registered with an approved Canine or Feline Association.

Additional reduced fee applies to dogs that are:

• Kept for working stock, or
• Have undergone obedience training (not puppy training) which complies with the regulations.

We also offer a 50% rebate for pension card holders - you can provide your pension card details in the registration form. 

If you need to change the ownership details of an animal, please email us with the details and we will confirm the transfer. 

• Registration tags are replaced for free.
• To receive a free replacement tag your pet must be currently registered with no outstanding payments.
• It is an offence under the Domestic Animals Act 1994 for a pet to not wear its registration tag.
• You can visit us at the Castlemaine Civic Centre to receive a replacement tag in person, or call us on 5471 1700 to request it be posted out to you. 

7 Exemptions for guide dogs

(1) A visually impaired person or hearing impaired person who keeps and uses a dog as a guide dog is not liable for an offence under this Act in respect of that dog, where, in acting in the manner which would constitute the offence, the dog was performing its functions as a guide dog.

(2) In the case of a dog which is owned by an organisation which trains guide dogs and which is approved by the Minister, the owner is not liable for an offence under this Act in respect of that dog, where in acting in the manner which would constitute the offence, the dog was being trained as a guide dog.

(3) Despite Part 2—

(a) a visually impaired person or hearing impaired person who keeps and uses a dog as a guide dog is not required to pay a fee for the registration of that dog; or

(b) an organisation which trains guide dogs and which is approved by the Minister under subsection (2), is not required to pay a fee for the registration of a dog owned by the organisation which is being trained as a guide dog.

(4) Despite anything in any other Act or subordinate instrument a visually impaired person, hearing impaired person or person training a guide dog may, at all times and in all places, be accompanied by a dog kept and used, or trained by him or her as a guide dog.