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Report a Found, Lost or Stray Dog

If you wish to report a found, lost or stray dog, please fill in our online form

We also post pictures of lost dogs on our Nottingham City Council Dog Control | Nottingham | Facebook

Report a Stray Dog

Completing this service should take around 5 minutes.

To complete this service you will need.

If reporting a lost dog you will need to tell us:

  • Where the dog was lost
  • What happened when the dog was lost
  • Description of the dog, (such as its breed, size, colour, age etc.)
  • If the dog is microchipped and its details
  • If the dog had a collar or tag

If its a stray:

  • Your contact details (name, address, telephone, email)
  • Description of the dog (such as its breed, size, colour, age etc.)
  • The exact location of the dog (when you last saw it)
  • If the dog is on your property, what you would like to happen next

We operate 7 days a week.

  • Monday to Friday 9am to 9pm.
  • Weekends and Bank holidays 9am to 4pm.

Any reports of a stray dog received outside these hours will not be picked up until a dog warden returns to duty the following day, an out of hours service is available accessible by the above found lost or stray e-form.

Report a found, lost or stray dog

Dog collection and fees

You'll have to pay a fee to cover its time in kennels. It'll cost more the longer it stays. Fees start on the day it's taken to the Kennels.

Fees:

  • 1 Day - £64.00
  • 2 Days - £78.00
  • 3 Days - £92.00
  • 4 Days - £131.00
  • 5 Days - £145.00
  • 6 Days - £159.00
  • 7 Days - £173.00

If you don't collect your dog within this time it will be put up for adoption.

If it's wearing a collar or microchipped

If a dog is picked up and it is wearing a collar or is microchipped with correct owner details, we will make every effort to return the dog to its owner, a Fixed Penalty Notice will normally be issued.

If microchip is not up-to-date

  • If your dogs microchip is not up-to-date once at the kennels
  • Or dog does not have a microchip,

This is charged at £15.00 as it is a legal requirement to have your dog microchipped.

If No Identification

If the dog is picked up on more than one occasion or cannot be identified, it will be taken to our kennels.

If a dog is not collected by the owner within 7 days of being seized then Nottingham City will legally assume ownership of that dog. The majority of the strays that are left unclaimed are re-homed but in certain circumstances they do have to be put to sleep.

NB Cash payments and cheques are not accepted.

Please visit our Facebook page to view current stray dogs.

Re homing Strays

Castlefield Kennels is our contracted re-homing kennel.

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