{"id":201758,"date":"2026-01-20T21:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201758"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:46:04","slug":"county-dog-owners-license-deadline-fast-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/20\/county-dog-owners-license-deadline-fast-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog license deadline fast approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reminder that the deadline to purchase 2026 Van Wert County dog licenses is Saturday, January 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All dogs in the county three months or older require a license. The one year dog license fee is $18 per tag. If purchased after January 31, an additional $18 penalty fee will be charged.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Derby-and-Rigby-2025-e1764815584436.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200124\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Dog tags can be purchased by mail, online or at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Van Wert County Auditor\u2019s Office, Room 205, Van Wert County Courthouse (open Monday-Friday)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Van Wert Co. Sheriff\u2019s Dept. 113 N. Market St., Van Wert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animal Clinic of Van Wert, 13995 Lincoln Highway, Van Wert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ohio City Express, 511 W. Carmean St., Ohio City<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secret Garden Floral &amp; Gifts, 109 W. Tully St., Convoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Willshire RoadDog, 603 Rockford Rd., Willshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trisha\u2019s Ruff Grooming 309 Bonnewitz Ave., Van Wert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If purchasing a tag at one of the above locations, please take your application with you. Licenses may also be purchased online by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doglicenses.us\/OH\/VanWert\/\">here<\/a>. A convenience fee will apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following licenses are available only in the Auditor\u2019s Office:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A three year dog license is $54 per tag.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A lifetime dog license is $180 per tag.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A kennel license is $90 which includes 5 tags, extra tags are $1 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information A reminder that the deadline to purchase 2026 Van Wert County dog licenses is Saturday, January 31. All dogs in the county three months or older require a license. The one year dog license fee is $18 per tag. If purchased after January 31, an additional $18 penalty fee will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:26:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201758"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201806,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201758\/revisions\/201806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}