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Desexing your cat or dog

We recommend that cats and dogs be desexed if they are not intended for breeding. Desexing can help make animals less aggressive and easier to control.

Person petting a dog in an opened animal cage located in the back of a van.

​​​​​Lots of healthy animals in Australia are euthanised each year due to over-population. In many cases, animals are bred by accident.

Desexing makes it cheaper to register your cat or dog. You can save more than a third of the registration cost. Benefits of desexing include:

  • helping to reduce over-population
  • pets being less prone to wander or fight
  • reducing territorial behaviour such as spraying indoors
  • pets being less likely to suffer from anti-social behaviours
  • helping to reduce the risk of certain types of cancer.

our acknowledgement

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  • Aboriginal People Flag

The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. 

 

We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future.