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Vaccinate Your Pet for Rabies

This prevents them from getting rabies from a wild beast bite. If your pet bites another animal or person, it prevents them from spreading the disease.

Dogs

All dogs must be vaccinated for rabies by the age of v months per Wisconsin state constabulary.
Rabies vaccine is good for 6 months, 1 year, or iii years, depending on type of vaccine given and age at vaccination.
Cheque with your vet to be sure your domestic dog stays upward to date on rabies vaccination.

Cats

Rabies vaccination is required to get a cat license. Check with your municipality to encounter if they require a license for cats.

Become a Pet License

Why license your pet?
Licensed animals tin be more hands identified if lost, and license fees help united states of america help lost, unwanted, injured, abandoned and mistreated animals. Specifically, your pet license fees support the following programs:

Humane investigations into animate being cruelty
24-hour creature rescue
Recovering and returning lost animals to their homes
Providing food, shelter, veterinary and humane care for stray or homeless animals
Assistance and care for ill, injured, or trapped wildlife
Humane education for animal owners

Dogs

You must license your dog past the historic period of five months, per Wisconsin land law.
You must buy a new license for your canis familiaris each year.
A license costs almost $10-20 and is cheaper if you canis familiaris is spayed or neutered.
City of Madison: Dog Licensing
Dane County: County licenses are sold by individual boondocks, metropolis, and village clerks. See the map below for links to information on pet licensing from your municipality.

Once you take your domestic dog license, you tin get a domestic dog park permit:

Madison Dog Park Information
Dane County Dog Park Data

Cats

These municipalities crave you to license your true cat:

Metropolis of Edgerton	Village of Black Earth	Village of McFarland
City of Fitchburg	Village of Cambridge	Village of Mt Horeb
Urban center of Madison	Hamlet of Cantankerous Plains	Village of Oregon
City of Monona	Hamlet of Deerfield	Village of Shorewood Hills
Hamlet of Belleville	Village of Maple Bluff	Hamlet of Waunakee

If y'all live in one of these municipalities, you must purchase a new license for your cat each year. A license costs about $ten-20 and is cheaper if your cat is spayed or neutered. Encounter the map to a higher place for links to more than information past municipality.

Put Identification and License Tags on Your Pet

Your pet should wear an ID tag with your name, address, and telephone number at all times. Many people think that if their pet is microchipped, they don't demand a tag; however, if a neighbor or skillful samaritan finds your pet, they volition have no way of knowing if the beast is microchipped. The fastest fashion to get your lost pet dorsum is to have an ID tag with your current accost and easily reachable telephone number.

Your pet should also wear their license tag and rabies tag. These tags tin can assist your pet back home if information technology gets lost. You can go an ID tag from your local vet, at pet stores, or the Humane Social club. Municipalities outcome license tags.

Be a Responsible Pet Owner

Leashing. Cats and dogs must be on a ternion if they are not on your belongings.
Park Permits. If y'all take your dog to a dog park, they must have a canis familiaris park permit. Follow the dog park'south rules, which are posted at the park entrance.
- Madison Dog Park Information
- Dane County Canis familiaris Park Information
Pets in Cars. Do not leave your pet solitary in a car.
Clean Upward.
- Always carry equipment to clean up your canis familiaris'southward poop whenever you and your dog are off your holding.
- Practise non allow your dog to poop on any property, public or private (except your own holding), unless you immediately clean it up. Be mindful of other people's yards and gardens and try to avert allowing your canis familiaris to pee and poop on private property if possible.
- Do not permit dog poop to accumulate on your property.
- Dog poop can pose health risks to people and pets and is a source of food for wild animals and pests.
- There are often steep fines for violating these ordinances.
Barking. Minimize your domestic dog'due south barking every bit much equally possible. Our Animal Services staff do not respond to barking dogs. To report a barking domestic dog, phone call your local law department.
Safe Tips. Run into the ASPCA website for more pet wellness and safety tips.
Fauna Adoptions and Surrenders. Encounter the Dane County Humane Society website for more information.

Written report Bite Incidents

Fifty-fifty if you lot own the animal or know the owner, it is important to report brute bites to usa. It helps reduce disease and illness.

If your pet bites a person or pet, care for it like a auto crash: check to see if the bite broke the peel, and substitution name and phone number with the owner. Don't wait to bank check the seize with teeth when y'all get home. It may exist too late to find the owner and rabies shots may be needed.

Report the bite to us at (608) 255-2345 (ask for an Animal Services Officer). Visit our Fauna Bites & Rabies page for more information.