Animal Services

$100.00 - January 1 to March 31, 2025

$125.00 - April 1 to December 31, 2025

You are required to complete an online kennel licence application form if you wish to establish a kennel. Kennels cannot be located in areas zoned residential. You must ensure that your property is properly zoned for the location of a kennel. Please verify with the Development Services Department at 519-735-2184, ext. 123.

You can now complete and submit the payment for the Kennel License Application online.  The following credit cards may be used for payment:

• Visa
• MasterCard

Kennel operators must also purchase dog tags for their personal dogs.  The annual fee is $22.00 per dog to a maximum of three (3) tags allowed.  Please visit Docupet to register or renew the licence for your dogs.

The Dog Owners' Liability Act assists in increasing public safety in relation to dogs, including pit bulls.

The Tecumseh OPP Detachment provides enforcement of the Dog Owners' Liability Act. Please contact 911 for assistance.

The Act includes the following

• Authorize the commencement of a proceeding against a dog owner where the dog poses a menace to the safety of persons or domestic animals, or against a person who contravenes the Act, the regulations made under the Act or a court order made under the Act.
• Adds to the orders that may or shall be made in those proceedings.
• Except as permitted by the Act or regulations under it, in relation to pit bulls, prohibits owning, breeding, transferring, abandoning, importing and training to fight.
• Provide an exception to the prohibition for "restricted pit bulls". These are pit bulls owned by an Ontario resident when the Bill came into force. Owners of restricted pit bulls must ensure compliance with the provisions of the Act and regulations relating to restricted pit bulls. These regulations include:
  • Leashing (less than 1.8 metres in length, of sufficient strength) and muzzling (humanely and sufficiently strong and well fitted to prevent biting) of restricted pit bulls.
  • Spaying or neutering of restricted pit bulls.
  • When kept within enclosed property, the property is enclosed in a way that can be relied on to prevent the pit bull from breaking out of the property.

As of March 1, 2022, the Urban Hens Licensing Pilot Program has been discontinued.  Report LCS-2021-35 - Urban Hens Licensing Pilot Program - Final Report, which was considered at the December 14, 2021 Regular Council Meeting, summarizes the reasons for the discontinuation of the program.

The Town of Tecumseh offers a Cat Spay & Neuter Program and a Cat Intake Program. 

Starting in 2023, the Cat Spay & Neuter Program and the Cat Intake Program are in partnership with the Windsor Humane Society. To apply, please fill out the applications below. 

Many people enjoy birds that visit their gardens, bats consume millions of mosquitoes, and coyotes eat mice and rats. However, conflicts can arise when humans encroach on wildlife habitat and wild animals behave in ways that damage our property, cost us money, or endanger our health or safety.

For more information about managing and protecting plants, animals, land, water, forests and other ecosystems, visit the Province of Ontario's Wildlife and Nature webpage. 

Wildlife Rabies Control Information:

The Government of Ontario website contains information about rabies in Ontario, and what to do if you think you have come into contact with rabies. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit also has information on rabies. 

Rat Control: 

If the matter is a property standards situation (see Property Standards By-Law), please contact the Town to have the issue logged and investigated. For more information on how to control pests, visit our Garbage and Recycling page.

The Town of Tecumseh’s (Town) Pilot Rat Abatement Program for Residential Properties has concluded. 

Coyotes & Foxes: 

For more information about managing and protecting plants, animals, land, water, forests and other ecosystems, visit the Province of Ontario's Wildlife and Nature webpage.

For more information on what to do regarding ticks and lyme disease, please see the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit page. 

If livestock is killed by a dog or wild animal, the owner of the livestock may claim and be compensated for damages through the Town of Tecumseh. The Livestock Valuer appointed by the Town of Tecumseh will need to make an on-site visit to your property to assess the damage and loss of livestock. Please contact the Clerk's Department for the Livestock Valuer's contact information.