Oakland County
Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center
In short
Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center issues 2 permits we publish for Oakland County, last verified 2026-09-28. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dog Licenses and Kennels — Oakland County Animal Control (business scope)only if it applies to you | Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-28 |
| Commercial Kennel License (conditional — veterinary, boarding/breeding/training for compensation only)only if it applies to you | Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center | Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center performs the initial inspection and licensing for a commercial kennel, under the state dog-law framework; the office's own kennel-information page does not print a flat dollar rate for this license separately from its general dog-licensing fee schedule. Call Oakland County Animal Control directly for the current amount. | not stated on Oakland County Animal Control's own kennel-information page; confirm directly with that office | 2026-09-28 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Dog Licenses and Kennels — Oakland County Animal Control (business scope)
No fee applies at the business-licensing level. Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center issues per-animal dog licenses under Michigan's Dog Law of 1919, MCL 287.262 et seq., and its Kennel Information page states that a commercial kennel — 'operating a kennel for commercially boarding, breeding or training dogs for money' — must have a kennel license as required by Michigan state law (listed separately for this county). A per-animal dog license is an obligation of the dog's owner, so a business in one of the ten categories covered here does not take one out simply for operating. The only other county-level connection between these industries and animal regulation is the animal-bite reporting duty recorded separately, which requires a veterinary practice or any other business where a bite occurs to report it to OCHD's Communicable Disease Unit.
Commercial Kennel License (conditional — veterinary, boarding/breeding/training for compensation only)
A veterinary clinic that also boards, breeds or trains dogs for compensation — distinct from ordinary medical care of patients — needs a Commercial Kennel License from Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center, which performs the initial inspection and licensing under the state dog-law framework. Oakland County Animal Control's own kennel-information page describes the licensing process but does not print a flat dollar rate for this license as a category separate from its general per-animal dog-licensing fee schedule; an applicant confirms the current amount directly with that office. Municipality-level zoning and land-use requirements also apply to a commercial kennel and must be checked with the city, village or township where the business is located, separately from this county licensing step. A veterinary clinic without boarding, breeding or training for compensation is outside this record.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Oakland County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Animal Control, Kennel InformationOakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
- MCL 287.262, Dog Law of 1919Michigan Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
Other offices serving Oakland County
- Oakland County Health Division (OCHD), Environmental Health Services Unit
- Oakland County Government — Business Development and Facilities Management
- Oakland County Clerk / Register of Deeds, Vital Records
- Oakland County Health Division (OCHD), Communicable Disease Unit
- Road Commission for Oakland County (RCOC)
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