Animal Control

Dog Licences

All dogs in Lillooet who are over the age of two (2) months are required to have a dog licence. When you purchase your dog licence, you will get a metal licence tag to affix to your dog’s collar. These tags all have unique numbers and are the best way to ensure that we can reunite you with your pet if they accidentally get away from you.

To purchase your dog licence, visit the District Office. The current cost for dog licences is $20 if your dog is spayed / neutered and $40 if your dog is unaltered.

Near the end of each year, the District sends out reminders to get a new licence to dog owners who purchased licences during the year. If you are no longer in possession of the dog, please let us know.

NEW Animal Control Bylaw

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Council adopted a new Animal Control Bylaw No. 2025-027 on October, 7, 2025.

Summary List of Changes

Any Animal

Changes

  • No person may abandon a domestic animal.

What’s the same?

  • No animal owned by a person is permitted to run at large or trespass on any private lands

  • All domestic animals must be leashed in public and under control.

  • No animal is permitted to create excessive noise.

  • Keeping of animals is subject to District nuisance regulations.

  • No person shall keep an animal suffering from an infectious disease unless the animal is isolated and undergoing treatment.

Dogs

Changes

  • Dog licences are now $20 for the year.

  • Other fees have also gone up only to account for inflation since the last fee update.

  • Sections of dog care and the responsibilities of owners were added.

    • No person shall keep any dog unless that dog is provided with sufficient clean drinking water, sufficient and appropriate food, a clean shelter, sufficient opportunity for exercise, care from a veterinarian when the dog exhibits signs of pain, suffering, disease, or illness.

    • No owner shall cause or permit a dog to be kept outside or confined in extreme heat, cold weather, or precipitation without adequate precautions to protect the dog from the extreme heat, cold weather and precipitation.

    • No owner shall cause or permit a dog to be confined to a dog enclosure, vehicle, or trailer without adequate heat, or ventilation and sufficient shade to protect the dog from excessive cold, heat and direct rays of the sun.

    • The minimum standard for the size of a dog enclosure shall be 0.91 m x 1.52 m (3’ x 5’) per dog.

    • No owner shall cause or permit a dog to be confined in a dog enclosure for longer than 12 hours in any 24 hour period.

  • The requirement for a kennel permit if you own more than 3 dogs was removed.

What’s the same?

  • All dogs (over the age of 3 months) are required to be licensed annually.

  • When dogs are off property they are required to wear a collar displaying the metal dog licence tag.

  • The maximum number of dogs permitted per household remains 5.

  • Dogs must be leashed and under control when off your property and in public. (Dogs at large not allowed).

  • Dog excrement must be picked up immediately.

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Backyard Hens

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Backyard Bees

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Keeping of Livestock (non-farm uses)

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