{"id":40372,"date":"2025-11-21T05:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40372\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:50:07","slug":"state-official-get-dogs-properly-licensed-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40372\/","title":{"rendered":"State official: Get dogs properly licensed | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. \u2013 State officials want you to make sure that your dogs are properly licensed.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding stopped by the Orchard Hills Training Center in Washington Township, just outside of Bally, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary was joined by dog owners to talk about the process.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say having your dogs licensed is not only required by Pennsylvania law, but it also makes your community safer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best protection for a dog is a license. Why? Now that license on the collar lets anyone who finds the dog know where it is, where it&#8217;s from, and if it&#8217;s lost, you get it back,&#8221; Redding said.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to apply for your dog license in 2026 is Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkspa.gov\/departments\/treasurer\/dog-license\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dog license fees<\/a> will go up starting Dec. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. \u2013 State officials want you to make sure that your dogs are properly licensed. Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24466,24465,128,130,129,10674],"class_list":["post-40372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-dog-license","tag-orchard-hills-training-center","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-russell-redding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}