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Register dog ownership
Service Description
As the owner of a dog, you are obliged to notify the municipality, administrative community or fulfilling municipality in which you reside of the keeping of your dog. The notification must be made immediately after the dog has been kept.
Please note that you must have the dog permanently and unmistakably marked with a forgery-proof electronically readable transponder according to the ISO standard (microchip) by a veterinarian at your own expense. The chipping must have taken place within three months from the beginning of the keeping. For puppies, this period begins at the earliest when the dog reaches the age of three months.
In addition, you are required to take out liability insurance to cover personal injury and property damage caused by the animal, with a minimum sum insured of 500,000 euros for personal injury and 250,000 euros for other damage.
Notification of dog ownership (regulatory reporting requirements for dog owners), permit procedures for keeping dangerous dogs, notification of nuisance/danger/harm to people, animals or property caused by dogs.
Process flow
Notification of dog ownership must be made to the municipality, administrative community or fulfilling municipality in which you reside as the owner of the dog.
The registration has to be done immediately.
For questions about the procedure, please contact the responsible municipality.
Who should I contact?
Notification of dog ownership must be made to the municipality, administrative community or fulfilling municipality in which you reside as the owner of the dog.
Competent authority
The competent authority for the notification of dog ownership is the municipality, administrative community or fulfilling municipality in which the owner of the dog resides.
Which documents are required?
The notification of keeping the dog shall contain the following information:
- Surname, first name of the dog owner
- Date of birth of the dog owner
- Address of the dog owner
- beginning of keeping the dog (date)
- transponder number of the dog (if the dog is already chipped)
- sex of the dog
- Date of birth/litter date of the dog (if known)
- breed (or crossbreed) of the dog
- Description of the dog's appearance
- for example coat color, instep height, special characteristics
If your dog was chipped after April 25, 2020, you must provide proof of your dog's data by means of a certificate from the veterinarian performing the identification or the so-called pet passport,
Please also bring proof of conclusion of a dog liability insurance to the registration.
- Notification for dog keeping; certificate according to § 113 Abs. Versicherungsvertragsgesetz (VVG) about the existence of a liability insurance for dog owners; EU pet passport or veterinary certificate as proof of identification, breed, litter date, sex and appearance of the dog.
- Application for a permit; identity card; certificate of competence; certificate according to § 113 Abs. Versicherungsvertragsgesetz (VVG) about the existence of a liability insurance for dog owners; EU pet passport or veterinary certificate as proof of identification, breed, litter date, sex and appearance of the dog.
- Written or verbal reports of harassment/endangerment/harm to people, animals or property by dogs
What are the fees?
There are no fees for reporting the keeping of dogs.
- Notification for dog keeping: no costs
- Permit procedure: according to the working time
- Notification for nuisance: no costs
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
The keeping of a dog must be reported immediately.
The dog must be chipped within three months of the start of keeping. For puppies, this period begins at the earliest when the dog reaches the age of three months.
Legal basis
What else should I know?
The owner of a dog shall be deemed to have committed an administrative offense if he fails to comply with the obligation to notify the competent authority, fails to have the dog marked or fails to take out and maintain liability insurance in the appropriate amount.
Administrative offenses can be punished with a fine of up to ten thousand euros.
Supporting institutions
The locally responsible municipality, administrative community or fulfilling municipality.
Author
Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
Professionally released on
17.04.2023
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
Competent Authority
Landeshauptstadt Erfurt, Stadtverwaltung - Gefahrenabwehr
Visiting address
99084 Erfurt
