The City of Thompson is encouraging you to protect your pet.

Animal Control Officer, Cory Sparkes, shares how you can do it and how it helps and your pet.

“It’s that time of year to get your animal pet license.  A lot of Thompsonites don’t know that it’s an annual licence and that you have to licence your animal. Some of the good stuff that comes with that is that we know what animals are in town, we know if they are vaccinated and if your animal gets out or if it’s on the loose, we are able to get it back to you.”

To licence your pet, bring your dog’s or cat’s vaccination records to City Hall.

For each spayed or neutered animal, the cost is just $20 if you licence them before January 31st.     After that date it is $25 per animal.

Sparkes said it is $70 per pet if they are not spayed or neutered until January 31st and $75 after that.

Go to Thompson.ca to download the pet licensing form.