1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,359 Speaker 1: Brian Bridge in Auckland's the Council's cracking down on unregistered 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: dog owners. Around five thousand, five hundred infringement notices will 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: be handed out over the coming days. They say it's 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: the first step to responsible dog ownership and will slap 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: owners with a three hundred dollars fine if they don't register. 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: The Council's General Manager of Compliance, Robert Irvine, is with me, Robert, 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:22,080 Speaker 1: good evening. 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 2: Hi, right, how are you going? Good? 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: Thank you? So five hundred dog owners have not registered 10 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: on time? Do they pay the three hundred? If they 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 1: pay the three hundred dollars fine, do they then have 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: to still pay the two hundred to register as well? 13 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll work with them on that. Effectively, if 14 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: they pay the registration there's a chance that we could 15 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 2: waiver the infringement fine. 16 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: Ah okay, how what's the grace period? 17 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,319 Speaker 2: Ah? Look, you know we want to obviously follow up 18 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: and we will chase up with them and if we 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: think it's within the month, we will be able to 20 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: actually get that response. 21 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: If I'm being honest with you, I mean I've got 22 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: my dog registered, but I do put it off, and 23 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: I put it off and I put it off because 24 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: it's how much is it two hundred and something? 25 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, the fees range. It ranges from seventy four dollars 26 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 2: through to about two hundred and thirty. And so if 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 2: you do get in early, there is a discount. 28 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: Right, I'm not one for early things. Two hundred and 29 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: thirteen dollars for a year for your dog registration? What 30 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: does that? Where does that go? 31 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, and again that's a max. Like I said, 32 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 2: it starts at seventy four dollars, where if you're a 33 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 2: responsible dog in a you know, we give you a discount, 34 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 2: and there's also the early discount. But effectively where that 35 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: goes is really around providing the services for animal management. 36 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: We provide a raft of services out there in terms 37 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 2: of protecting the public from roaming dogs and from effectively 38 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 2: you know, picking up strays and also any animals that 39 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 2: are left with us. It also, i guess, deals with 40 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: a lot of investigations that we do. There are unfortunately 41 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: dog attacks that we then have to go and investigate. 42 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 2: So a lot of this money from registration process goes 43 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: to dealing with those issues. 44 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: It's a shame because it's must be a very expensive 45 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: business to be and I suppose it is. 46 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that's it's you we're 47 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 2: a light city, so you know, we have a lot 48 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: of issues. 49 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: How often are you putting dogs down? 50 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: Look, it's it's unfortunately, you know, due to the amount 51 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 2: of roaming and you know, there's been quite a few 52 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 2: issues in terms of I guess post COVID where we've 53 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: seen a significant rise and amount of dogs and also 54 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: a lot of unwanted dogs. So we impound roughly eight 55 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: thousand dogs a year and really unfortunately around half of 56 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: those are actually euthanized. 57 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: Right, it's a shame. But is it not odd that 58 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: so you're a lawa abiding you're an early payment even 59 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: with the dog registration. Why is it that dog owners 60 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: have to subsidize bad you know, good dog owners subsidized 61 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:04,799 Speaker 1: bad dog owners. Should it not just come from a 62 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: general council pool of unruling behavior. 63 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 2: Look, it's not all all goes towards So there is 64 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: balance between the two in that something we do strike 65 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 2: when we look at how much we're going to be 66 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 2: charging for registration. So it's basically a contribution towards overrighting services. So, 67 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 2: like I said, it's not all going towards and there 68 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 2: is a general balance and that's not something we do 69 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: look at when we're setting the registration freeze every year. 70 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: Somebody's just text don very quickly before we go to 71 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: say can you ask the council why they change the 72 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: dog's registration number every time you apply for a new 73 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: registration and don't just allocate a number to your dog 74 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: for life. 75 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: Look at something that's always something to be looked at. 76 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 2: You know, it's part of a you know, we do 77 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 2: charge it's an annual fee. So in terms of that registration, 78 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 2: that's just part of the process where you know, so 79 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: how we identify who's actually paid, you know, through the 80 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: different tag and again it's an annual fee that we charge, 81 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: so we're an annual process. For more from Hither Duplessy 82 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: Allen Drive. Listen live to news talks. 83 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 84 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.