Dog licenses provide safeguards to protect you and your friend. If your friend is lost, a license is an easy way for someone to identify your dog, leading to a happy reunion between you and your dog. The dog-licensing program provides valuable benefits to dog owners. Dog licensing helps to reunite lost dogs with their owners. Funding made available through dog license sales, goes to help support animal shelters and outreach programs to promote responsible pet ownership.
Dog licenses are available at the local county treasurer s office.
The Bureau of Dog Law at the Department of Agriculture works to encourage dog licensing through direct mailings and outreach efforts. In 2000, the Bureau of Dog Law reached a record-breaking 1,015,000 licenses.