--- title: Registered dogs and cats, Southern Grampians Shire resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/ publisher: Southern Grampians Shire Council licence: CC BY 3.0 AU licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ version: 2021-06-29 rows: 2821 fields: 7 source: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5bf7d28a-22ab-4ee4-a838-bb2f66b65073/resource/2398fac9-c3b5-4623-9b15-9d1b9fd4d689/download/southern-grampians-animal-registrations.csv source_sha256: 4b91807fa071e0b30c9f11233e16b09eedb2150586076b296b064749318e7c43 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Registered dogs and cats, Southern Grampians Shire About 2,800 dogs and cats on the Southern Grampians Shire register, with type, sex, desexing, microchip, town and ABS mesh block. Published by Southern Grampians Shire Council under CC BY 3.0 AU and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Southern Grampians Shire Council has not endorsed this site. Also called: Southern Grampians animal registrations, Hamilton Victoria registered dogs and cats, Southern Grampians pet registrations. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.csv (151 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.xlsx (92 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.json (337 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.parquet (23 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.sqlite (143 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.ndjson (333 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.arrow (53 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.csv.gz (17 KB) Pinned version 2021-06-29: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/aggregate?group=suburb&metric=count Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `ref` | string | ref | The council's registration reference. Some references are on two to four rows with the same details, as published. | | `type` | string | type | | | `microchip` | boolean | microchip | | | `sex` | string | sex | f, m or u as the council records it. Blank on a few rows. | | `desexed` | boolean | desexed | | | `suburb` | string | suburb | | | `meshblock` | string | meshblock | | ## Versions - 2021-06-29: 2821 rows, 7 fields, sha256 4b91807fa071. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/history.tar.zst ## Part of Victorian council dog and cat registrations - [Registered dogs by suburb, breed and colour, City of Greater Dandenong](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-greater-dandenong-registered-dogs/) - [Registered dogs and cats, Golden Plains Shire](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-golden-plains-animal-registrations/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Dogs and cats by council, registration, microchip and desexing, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-registered-animals/) (SA) - [Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/) (SA) - [Dog and cat attack and harassment incidents, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dog-cat-incidents/) (SA) - [Boat licences and vessel registrations by postcode, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-boat-licences-registrations-by-postcode/) (NSW) - [Registered recreational boats by hull, engine and postcode, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-boat-registrations/) (SA) - [Dog off-leash areas, Brisbane](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-brisbane-dog-off-leash-areas/) (Qld) - [Registered associations, charities and cooperatives by region, Queensland, latest count](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-registered-organisations-by-region/) (Qld) ## Attribution and citation Southern Grampians Shire Council, Southern Grampians Animal Registrations, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/southern-grampians-animal-registrations, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Southern Grampians Shire Council, Southern Grampians Animal Registrations, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/southern-grampians-animal-registrations, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/ Harvard: Southern Grampians Shire Council (2021) Registered dogs and cats, Southern Grampians Shire, version 2021-06-29 [data set], CC BY 3.0 AU, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/ Markdown: Data: [Victorian council dog and cat registrations](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/southern-grampians-animal-registrations), Southern Grampians Shire Council, [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Registered dogs and cats as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Registered dogs and cats in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 2,821 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/v/2021-06-29/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Registered dogs and cats updated? Southern Grampians Shire no longer updates it. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Registered dogs and cats commercially? Yes. CC BY 3.0 AU allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Registered dogs and cats? No. The publisher is Southern Grampians Shire Council, and its page is https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/southern-grampians-animal-registrations. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What does each row hold? One dog or cat on Southern Grampians Shire's register when the file was published, with the council's registration reference, type, whether it is microchipped and desexed, sex, the town and the ABS mesh block it is registered in. Names, owners and addresses are not in the file. ### Which columns are left out? The file's name column is empty, and its row id, council code, property assessment number and feature id are not republished. The assessment number points to a rated property, so it is held back. ### Is it current? The portal dates the file June 2021. It is a single snapshot of the register and has not been updated since. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.