Are your pets registered within your municipal area?

Are your pets registered within your municipal area?

  • Yes all my pets are registered

    Votes: 5 10.4%

  • Only some of my pets are registered

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • None of my pets are registered

    Votes: 5 10.4%

  • WTF - register your pets?

    Votes: 31 64.6%

  • Not applicable in my municipal area .... I think?!

    Votes: 7 14.6%
  • Total voters
    48
Not applicable in my city of Ekurhuleni but already compliant for any proposed rules even Cape Town's (not exceeding 3, chipped, sterilized, vaccinated).
 
My dogs are all rescues from various animal shelters , chipped and neutered , so the effing municipality can go and get the details from them.
Lazy cnuts.
 
Devon101 said:
Lived in Cape Town my whole life and never knew you had to register pets until recently. I don't think that will work where I live.
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There was a time when Cape Town didn't have a unified by-law framework for its metropolitan municipality. A lot of the by-laws were fragmented and applicable to districts, IIRC. At some point, under the governance of the DA, the metro (CoCT) began to unify the by-laws. From this came the Animal Keeping By-Law, 2010,


3. Dog registration and licensing​

(1) The owner of a property where one or more dogs are kept must register the dog or dogs with the Council.
(2) Dog registration must take place within four months of the dog’s birth or within 30 days of acquiring a dog on property within Council’s jurisdictional boundaries.
(3) The Council may levy a dog license fee in respect of a property where one or more dogs are kept.
(4) The amount of the dog license fee may be determined in terms of a resolution of Council. A reduced dog license fee may apply for sterilized dogs.

4. Permits to keep more dogs than the prescribed number​

(1) Any person who wants to keep a greater number of dogs on premises than the number permitted in terms of section 2 (2), must apply to the Council for a permit.
(2) An application in terms of subsection (1) must be in writing on a prescribed form and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) The Council may require the applicant to provide any information which it considers relevant to enable it to make an informed decision.
(4) The Council may refuse to consider an application in terms of subsection (1) in respect of which the provisions of subsection (2) have not been complied with or information contemplated in subsection (3), has not been furnished.
(5) The Council may only consider an application in terms of subsection (1) after receipt of a written report from an authorised official – (a) as to whether the dog for which the permit is required is likely to cause a public health hazard or the keeping of such dog may result in a contravention of section 6; (b) setting out the results of an inspection of the premises on which the dog concerned is being kept or is to be kept; and (c) as to whether to applicant has previously had a dog removed from his or her care or has a previous criminal conviction or civil judgement against him or her in respect of an animal in his or her care.
(6) The Council may refuse an application in terms of subsection (1) or approve it subject to any conditions aimed at reducing the risk of any public health hazard created by the dogs on the premises concerned occurring, continuing or to reduce such risk to a level acceptable to the Council.
(7) In respect of any application approved in terms of subsection (6), an authorised official must issue a permit on a prescribed form specifying every condition imposed by the Council.
(8) A permit is not transferable from one person to another or from the premises in respect of which it has been issued, to other premises.
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That by-law of 2010 was repealed and replaced by the current by-law of 2021. The event that is spurring public reaction now is a proposal to amend the 2021 by-law.

There are some issues with the legal text not only of the proposal but also of the existing by-law. It is worth noting that the By-Law of 2021 was passed under pandemic lockdown conditions.

As far as I can remember, licensing and tagging, specifically of dogs, has always been a thing in Cape Town, even from before the 1994 election.

If you go through any of the adoption processes, unless it is done privately, they do it all for you, though not free.
 
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