Dog servicesin Benbrook, TX

In Benbrook, TX, animal services are run by the police. Benbrook Animal Services is the Benbrook Police Department Animal Services Division, and it picks up stray animals, gives aid to injured animals and investigates bites and dangerous-animal complaints. Its shelter is at 469 Winscott Road. If your dog is missing or you find one, call the shelter at 817-249-6087 or Animal Control dispatch at 817-249-1610.

Benbrook does not allow dogs to run at large, and Animal Control may impound a dog found loose, under the city's nuisance and running-at-large rules. The city code also requires you to pick up after your dog right away on public property or on someone else's property, and it treats frequent or long barking that disturbs neighbors as a nuisance. Texas law requires a rabies vaccine by four months of age.

The city pages list no city-run dog park, so plan off-leash play elsewhere. At Benbrook Lake, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers does not allow pets on the designated swimming beach at North Holiday Park, 400 Lakeview Drive, which is open year-round from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. If your dog stays outside unattended on a restraint, Texas law requires shelter, shade and drinking water and does not allow the restraint to be a chain.