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Licensing Your Pet

A Pet License is a telephone telephone call home!

Licensing your pet is the police. The City of Houston Municipal Code requires that anyone who owns, keeps, possesses, or has control of a domestic dog or cat iv months of age or older must have his or her pet licensed and vaccinated confronting rabies every year.

Contact Pet Licensing at 713.229.7300 Ext 1 or WayHome@houstontx.gov.

A pet license identifies and protects your pet in instance it becomes lost. Fifty-fifty indoor pets tin can get out and become lost. You are required to renew your license yearly and to keep your license updated when you motion and/or your pet is given away, lost, stolen or is deceased. A pet license is not only a requirement, simply information technology provides the following benefits:

A license tells anybody that your pet is not a homeless devious.
When licensed, found pets can be quickly reunited with their owner
BARC will phone call you or send y'all a letter of the alphabet if your pet comes to the shelter wearing a license.
Your license is proof that your pet has been vaccinated confronting rabies.
A license provides emergency medical care for your pet when in the intendance of BARC
When found, your licensed pet will be cared for at BARC for a longer holding menstruation.
Creature licensing is an essential part of animal care and control in our community. License fees back up the return of lost dogs and cats to their homes and help prefer homeless dogs and cats to new families. Other services funded by pet licensing are the prevention of animal neglect or cruelty, spay/neuter programs, over-population programs, and customs teaching services.

Be sure to have the license tag on your pet'southward collar at all times to aid enable a quick render should they be found.

License your pet today! Click here to see if you alive inside the City of Houston limits to purchase your city license.

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Y'all can license your pet in 3 ways: online, via post or in person at the BARC shelter.
You will demand the following paperwork:

A rabies vaccination certificate signed by a licensed veterinary must be submitted. An invoice or statement of services is not sufficient as proof of rabies vaccination. Cheque your certificate for correct possessor name, accost, and pet information.
A spay/neuter certificate if it is not reflected on Rabies certificate.
*To update your pet'southward record at any time, please e-mail WayHome@houstontx.gov.

Online License Purchase
Set to purchase your license? Whatever required documents, such as your pet's current rabies certificate, may exist scanned and uploaded (please employ .jpg format) or submitted afterward by fax, mail or email. The license will be issued afterward all required documents are received. Begin at https://www.licensepet.com/houston.

By Postal service
Please post all required documentation as listed above, along with your check or coin social club payable to "B.A.R.C." to the accost below. Delight do not send cash. Please transport copies of your paperwork and retain the originals for your records. Copies will not exist returned with your license receipt.

City of Houston Pet Licensing
3200 Carr Street
Houston, TX 77026

In Person
You can also license and renew your pet license in person at the BARC shelter via cash or check. Click hither for shelter hours and address.

Breeder Application
If you are applying for a license to be a breeder, yous can download the application here(pdf).

For dogs, use a leather or nylon collar that buckles. Plastic snap collars tin break abroad easily. Never put tags on a "choke chain" blazon collar. These collars should be used for training simply and should never exist left on a domestic dog. They can strangle your dog.

For cats, use a "release" collar. These collars are readily bachelor and volition permit your cat to free itself should the collar become attached to something.

Remember, Collars and tags are a must, yet, they tin autumn off or get lost. Microchipping provides another form of identification for your pet.

Pet Licensing Authoritative Rules

- Change of Address or Personal Information

- Pet Transfer of Ownership

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