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Animal Control
Animals - at large | Animals - housing, food and water | Animals - licensing | Animals - impounding | Animals - in parks | Animals - waste disposal | Animals - disturbing the peace | Animals - dangerous dogs | Animals - limitation on number
Links:
4 Luv of Dog Rescue
Adopt-A-Pet
American Humane Association
Animal Welfare Information Center
FM Humane Society
Minn-Kota PAAWS/PAAWS Project
Request Animal Trap
 
ANIMAL RULES YOU SHOULD KNOW:
  • No one shall allow their animal off their property without it being leashed. [Moorhead City Code section 3-7-5]
  • All animals shall be provided with suitable sanitary housing with clean and proper food and water available at all times. (Moorhead City Code Section 2-10-6)
  • All dogs and cats over 6 months of age must be licensed annually by no later than February 15 of each year. (Moorhead City Code Section 3-7-2) Licensing your dog or cat is important and will help us locate you if your dog or cat is found. If you don't license your animal and it is found, a no license fee will be charged.

    License your animal

  • All animals found running at large may be apprehended and impounded by authorized City personnel. All animals will be impounded for at least 5 regular business days. At the end of the 5 day period, if no requests for animals have been filed with the City by any licensed institutions, all animals which remain unclaimed may be destroyed at the discretion of the City. (Moorhead City Code Section 3-7-6)

    The animal's owner can reclaim the animal if they pay the following fees:
    First Time Impound Fee: $30.00
    No License Fee: $50.00
    Room/Board/Day - Dog $22.44
    Room/Board/Day - Cat $16.03
    License fee - spayed/neutered $2.00
    License fee = spayed/neutered $5.00
  • Pets are permitted in city parks, except no pets, whether leashed or unleashed, may be brought onto the premises of Moorview Soccer Complex, Mattson Field, or Centennial Athletic Complex. (Moorhead City Code Section 6-1-4)
  • Animal waste should not be allowed to accumulate in yards or elsewhere. No one shall allow their dog or cat to deposit animal waste in City Parks, on public property or on anyone else's property. (Moorhead City Code Section 3-7-9)
  • No one should keep animal that habitually barks, cries or howls as they are a public nuisance. (Moorhead City Code Section 3-7-9)
  • Any dog within Moorhead city limits may be designated as a dangerous dog if the dog has:
    • Without provocation, inflicted substantial bodily harm on a human being on public or private property;
    • Killed a domestic animal without provocation while off the owner's property; or
    • Been found to be potentially dangerous, and after the owner has notice that the dog is potentially dangerous, the dog aggressively bites, attacks, or endangers the safety of humans or domestic animals.

    A Moorhead Police Department Sergeant, or officer of higher rank, shall have the authority to designate a dog as potentially dangerous or dangerous.

    A dog designated as potentially dangerous must be leashed and be under the control of a competent adult at all times when off the owner's property. (Moorhead City Code Section 3-7-13)

  • It shall be unlawful to keep, harbor, own, or in any way possess 4 or more dogs or 4 or more cats over 6 months of age upon or about the premises of any dwelling, or dwelling unit within the corporate limits of the City. Provided, a person may request a permit from the Police Department to keep, or harbor up to two dogs or two cats, but not both, as part of a qualified home used by organizations for rescue or sheltering of abandoned or lost animals. (Moorhead City Code Section 3-7-4)
WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I LOSE MY PET?
Call the area pounds.
Moorhead & Clay County - FM Animal Hospital 218-236-9059
Fargo & Cass County - Fargo Pound 701-232-7312
West Fargo - West Fargo Animal Hospital 701-232-2898
The radio station KFGO AM will announce lost animals. Call 701-237-5346 or visit their website at www.KFGO.com
Put an ad in the newspaper or hang up flyers in local grocery stores.
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