The Town of Bennett's Animal Control Department is overseen by the Community Services Department.
If you have questions, would like to report a missing or at large animal, need help with animal licensing or would like to speak to a Community Service Officer please call 303-644-3249 ext. 1015 or email communityservices@bennett.co.us.
After hours and county contacts for Animal Control can be found below.
- Additional Animal Control Contacts
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Adams County Animal Control (If you are unable to contact Bennett Animal Control)
(303) 288-1535
Adams County Animal Shelter
(303) 288-3294
Outside Town Limits
Unincorporated Adams County (303) 288-3294
Unincorporated Arapahoe County (720) 874-6750
After Hours Emergencies: 911
Colorado Division of Wildlife:
West side of Bennett (303) 291-7137
East side of Bennett (303) 291-7132
Animal Licensing
The Town of Bennett recently implemented a new system for licensing your animals. You must first create an account through the SmartGov portal. Instructions on how to do so can be found here. Once you create an account you can apply for a new animal license.
If you cannot apply online, download the animal license application here and return it to Town Hall.
The Town no longer has three-year licenses and all pet licenses will be due by January 31 of each year.
If you purchased a three-year license in 2022 it will be honored and registration of your animal will not be required until January 2026. If you purchased an animal license after October 2022, you do not have to renew the license until January 2024.
- Why Do I Need an Animal License?
- One out of every three pets will get lost at some point during their lifetime.
- Even the most responsible pet owners are sometimes separated from their pets by accident.
- Without proper pet identification, nearly 90% of lost pets will never be reunited with their owners.
- Pet identification drastically increases the likelihood that you will be reunited with your pet if they become lost.
- Many lost pets without identification are eventually euthanized.
- It's the law. Pets over the age of six months are required to be licensed in the Town of Bennett.
- A license serves as proof that your pet has been vaccinated against rabies and is therefore not a health risk to the community.
By licensing your pet, you establish ownership of your pet.
Animal License Fees
| 1 Year Spayed/Neutered Animal | $10.00 |
| 1 Year Intact (un-spayed / un-neutered) Animal | $25.00 |
| Replacement Tags | $5.00 |
*Senior Citizens and Military receive a 50% discount on the license fees of spayed and neutered animals.
Citizen Complaints
- Keeping Chickens/Ducks in the Town of Bennett
Sec. 9-1-35. - Keeping of domestic chickens and ducks; quantity restricted; permit required.
"Keeping of Chickens and Ducks. Domestic chickens and ducks hens may be kept on single-family residential parcels, subject to obtaining a permit as required by subsection (c) and compliance with all of the requirements set forth in this Section. For purposes of this Section, a single-family residential lot is a lot or tract of land having as its sole primary use one detached single-family dwelling."
- Keeping of Chickens/Ducks Permit Application
- Housing Inspection Chickens/Ducks/Rabbits/Bees
- How to Take Care of Chickens at Home
- Duck Housing Management
- Beekeeping Permit
Download the Beekeeping Permit Here
- Local Ordinances
Domestic Animals
It is unlawful for any person to own more than a total of four (4) dogs or cats or a combination thereof within the Town, except for litters below the age of six (6) months. It is also unlawful for animals to run at large within the Town, whether on public property or uninvited on your neighbor's property. As a dog owner it is your responsibility to ensure that your dog is not a nuisance barker that your neighbors must endure.
Prohibited Animals
It is unlawful for any person to own livestock within the Town, except in areas zoned agricultural.
Dog Barking Ordinance
Sec. 9-1-27 It is unlawful to own any domestic animal which, by frequent, habitual or continued barking, yelping, or howling, meowing, squawking, clucking or otherwise, causes annoyance or disturbs the peace of a neighbor or people passing to and from upon the public streets or sidewalks, and the same is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and a violation of this Article. The Animal Control Officer shall have the authority to use all reasonable means to abate such public nuisance, including but not limited to, impoundment of the animal for a violation of this Section. The Animal Control Officer shall attempt to locate and notify an absent owner of such nuisance by any reasonable means as readily as possible. No summons and complaint shall be issued nor shall there be a conviction for violation of the Section unless there are at least two (2) or complaining witnesses from separate households who have signed such complaint and have testified at trial if held.