Animal Protection Services
Division responsibilities
The Animal Protective Services Division is responsible for many aspects of animal control, including licensing, animals at large, dangerous animals, returning lost animals to their
owners, barking dogs, investigating dog bites and animal cruelty and relocating some types
of wildlife.
Helpful information
- Dogs must be on a leash when off the owner’s property. The leash
cannot be greater than 8 feet long and must be controlled by a
person physically competent to control the animal.
- No animal
owner shall permit any animal to cause an annoyance for more than
5 minutes
at any time through repeated barking or other like sounds
that can be
heard beyond the boundary lines of the owner’s property.
- Persons cannot keep more than three dogs or five cats or a total of six
animals within Town limits.
- It shall be the duty of every owner
of a dog or cat over 6 months of age living in the Town to
have such a dog or cat vaccinated for rabies by a licensed veterinarian
or animal health clinic.
- Any owner whose animal bites a person
shall immediately notify the animal control officer or Police
Department.
- The American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier or
any dog displaying the majority of physical traits of any one or
more of these breeds are prohibited within Town limits.
- If you have lost or found a dog or cat, call the Castle Rock Police
nonemergency number, 303-663-6100. You also may want to call
the Buddy Center animal shelter lost and found department in Castle
Rock, 303-696-4941, ext. 207.
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