Ballarat Regional Animal Facility

The brand-new animal shelter will care for the pets, strays, and other animals in the municipality and those of surrounding councils, it will be located on City of Ballarat land at Waringa Drive in Mitchell Park.  

The purpose-built facility will improve the lives for the animals in care with integrated indoor and outdoor facilities, improved ventilation and infection control and the ability to care for   up to 65 dogs and  and more than 158 cats in code-compliant pens. 

The new Ballarat Regional Animal Facility will:  

• Elevate the standard of care delivered to the thousands of stray, lost, abandoned or abused animals from around the region that pass through the City of Ballarat’s animal shelter each year  
• Upgrade to quarantine facilities for dangerous animals, providing better welfare and enrichment for the seized dog with significantly less risk for staff.
• Improve infection control, to ensure the animals are adequately housed minimising the spread of disease and reduce the amount of time needed for infection control and cleaning.  
• Enhanced emergency boarding facilities, with increased capacity to care for the animals of people in crisis situations including family violence, temporary ill health, or emergencies such as bushfire or flood.  
• Integrated indoor and outdoor facilities, which will improve the quality of life for the animals in care, reduce current manual processes and allow staff to spend more time on animal enrichment activities.  

Investment secured: $14.5 million  

• Victorian Government: $11.5 million
• City of Ballarat: $3 million