- Registering a dog/cat as a pet indicates a person’s commitment as a responsible owner and care for animal welfare and the community.
- All registered dogs/cats will be vaccinated and dewormed thereby protecting the human and animal population from rabies and other zoonotic diseases.
- Registration of pet will aid in reduction of the stray animal population thereby reducing nuisance to the general public from dog bites and sleepless nights as well as minimizing the threat of disease outbreak such as rabies.
- It will help the concerned authority to maintain a database of the different kinds of pets being kept by the people.
- It will reduce indiscriminate breeding by dogs/cats which in turn will decrease the stray population as well as reduce the number of dogs/cats suffering from mange, motor vehicle trauma and transmissible venereal tumours among other diseases.
- It will provide a means by which it can be identified and returned home safely if it gets lost or is impounded.