Animal keeping local laws
Animals make wonderful companions! If you keep an animal on your property, you need to comply with our animal keeping local laws.
The laws help us to make sure that animals are well looked after and ensure the safety and wellbeing of the community.
If you own an animal it is important that you understand our local laws. The list below gives a brief summary of what you need to know.
- Register your cats and dogs once they are 12 weeks old.
- Microchip your cats and dogs.
- Keep only the allowable number of animals on your property.
- Consider de-sexing your dogs.
- De-sex your cats. All cats must be de-sexed unless you are a registered breeder.
- Keep your animals in a fenced enclosure that stops them from wandering.
- When walking your dog, always keep it on a lead that is shorter than two metres unless you are in an off-leash area.
- Keep your animals in a way that they don't cause a nuisance to neighbours.
- Give your animals food, water, shelter, exercise and general care.
For more information about our animal keeping local laws, please download Local Law No. 4 (Animal Management) 2002 (PDF 184 KB), or Subordinate Local Law No. 4.1 (Animal Management) 2002 (PDF 236 KB).
How many animals can I have on my property?
There are limits on the number of animals you can keep on a property in Logan. Before getting a pet, you will need to check how many you can keep.
The number of animals you can keep depends on your property size. To find out the size of your property, please see My property.
Choose the animal below to find out how many you can have at your property.
Please remember that if you rent your home you may need your landlord’s permission before you can have an animal. The landlord’s permission is separate from our laws about the number of animals you can have.
- Alpacas and llamas
- Aviary birds
- Bees
- Cats
- Cattle, donkeys and mules
- Dogs
- Guinea pigs
- Horses
- Miniature horses and ponies
- Ostriches and emus
- Pigs
- Poultry
- Racing pigeons
- Sheep and goats
- Sulphur crested cockatoos and galahs
Applying to keep more animals
If you want to keep more than the allowed number of animals for your property, you will need to apply for approval.
To apply to keep more than the allowable number of cats or dogs for your property, please visit one of our customer service centres for an application form.
To apply to keep more than the allowable number of animals (other than cats or dogs) for your property, please download and fill in:
- Animal keeping approval application (other than cats and dogs (PDF 427 KB), or
- Bee keeping approval application (PDF 338 KB).
Animal keeping local law review
We recently reviewed our local laws about animal keeping to make sure they are sustainable and realistic.
We asked for your thoughts about keeping cats and dogs and used your feedback to develop the new cat and dog keeping laws for Logan.
On 29 October 2019, Council adopted a draft policy for keeping dogs and cats.
As part of the law making process we will undertake more community consultation, so you will be able to give us more feedback before we seek final Council approval.
We will work with pet owners while we transition to these new laws.