{"id":64156,"date":"2014-04-17T01:33:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=64156"},"modified":"2014-04-17T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T05:02:46","slug":"dog-inspections-start-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/04\/17\/dog-inspections-start-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Inspections Start Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cr Kathy Duff
(Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>16 April 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Regional Council will run a house-to-house inspection program in the region’s towns and villages between May and November this year to detect unregistered dogs.<\/p>\n

At today’s monthly meeting, Councillors approved the annual inspection program, which it is required to undertake under the State Government’s Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008.<\/p>\n

In October last year the SBRC voted to put an end to compulsory cat registrations, along with Toowoomba and Gympie Regional Councils.<\/p>\n

However dog registrations in the region’s town areas are still compulsory.<\/p>\n

The inspection program is designed to detect unregistered dogs and either get owners to register them or impound the animals. <\/p>\n

Staff told today’s Council meeting they believed there were still a number of unregistered dogs in the community.<\/p>\n

Cr Kathy Duff said the RSPCA will be running a desexing program between June and August this year, and the council will be promoting this during the inspection period to encourage dog owners to desex their pets.<\/p>\n

She said the last annual inspection program resulted in an increase in dog registrations.<\/p>\n

The town areas that would be inspected are Kingaroy, Kumbia, Crawford, Memerambi, Taabinga, Wooroolin, Nanango, Blackbutt, Maidenwell, Benarkin, Wondai, Proston, Tingoora, Mondure, Hivesville and Murgon.<\/p>\n