If your dog becomes accidentally injured and impounded, Animal Control guarantees emergency or life threatening treatment and stabilization of a sick or injured animal bearing a license tag. Local veterinarians are also more willing to invest emergency treatment in a sick or injured animal bearing a license tag. If your pet becomes lost, don't give up. Look closest to home first and ask for help. Ask everyone if they have seen your lost pet.
Children are particularly good sources of information.
By-Laws requires that a person who owns a dog shall keep that animal under restraint at all times. No dog owned or kept in this Town shall be allowed to be off the premises of its owner or keeper except in the immediate restraint and control of some person by means of a leash or effective command. The owner or keeper of any such dog that is not restrained or controlled off the premises of its owner or keeper shall be punishable by a fine of up to fifty dollars or the maximum permitted by Section 173A of Chapter 140 of the Massachusetts General Laws, whichever is higher. Physical confinement, for example, as by leash, chain, rope, fence, or within a building. Under competent voice control which, if on the owner's property, requires that the owner be present, monitoring the dog's activities.