Licensing Your Pet is Easy with Convenient Online Payment
With the same convenience of electronic bill paying or shopping on the Internet, pet owners can now use a Visa or MasterCard credit card to renew or purchase new licenses for their dogs or cats via an online service launched recently by Denver's Animal Care & Control Division.
In Denver, a one- or three-year license is required for dogs and cats over the age of 6 months. Licenses are also required for the dogs of non-Denver pet owners who use any dog off-leash park in Denver.
The license is a lost animal's ticket home: when a pet has a license attached to its collar, its assigned license number is all that is necessary for Animal Care staff to identify and contact the pet's owner to return a lost pet.
“Pet licensing is such an important service and inexpensive insurance policy for a pet’s safety and protection that we wanted to make it even easier for owners to register their pets with the city of Denver,” said Environmental Health Manager Nancy Severson.
The new pet licensing service, available at www.denvergov.org/petlicense, also accepts and processes tax-deductible donations to Animal Care & Control, which directly augment the costs of animal protection services and animal welfare promotion in Denver.
Residents can still purchase pet licenses from the Denver Animal Care & Control office by bringing or mailing a current rabies certificate the office located at 678 South Jason Street; Denver, Colorado 80223. The facility is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Pet licenses are available for $10 for one year, or $30 for three years.
Animal Care & Control, a division of the city’s Department of Environmental Health, is responsible for pet vaccinations, pet licensing, animal protection and sheltering, rescued animal adoption, animal leash law enforcement, rabies quarantine and testing, and investigation of animal abuse and neglect.
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