Animals & pests in Christchurch
2,645 reports sit in the council’s published record under 5 related headings: filed by residents through Snap Send Solve since 2019. The busiest year was 2025 with 682; Lyttelton tops the recent record.
Animal reports, dead, domestic and general, plus pest and vermin reports.
Report yours the way every one of these was filed, Snap Send Solve (snapsendsolve.com).
Reports per year
2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.
The latest on file
Animal - Domestic, 43 Bolton Avenue · 
Animal - Deceased, 1 Marine Pde · 
Animal - Domestic, 27 Dunster Street · 
Animal - Deceased, 210 Queenspark Drive · 
Animal - General, 70R Murphys Road · 
Animal - Deceased, Canterbury · 
Animal - Deceased, 110 Esplanade · 
Animal - Deceased, Canterbury ·
Other problems on the record
The record behind this
Every report above was filed by a resident through the council’s reporting channel and sits in Christchurch City Council’s public reports layer, which this page reads directly. A report is somebody’s word that the problem was there: counts here describe reporting, not verified inspections or fixes, and a closed job does not come off the record.
The live stream of everything reported is at /problems, the pins are on the map, and the whole-city shape is at /trends. This page as markdown: /problems/animals-pests.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,645 in the council’s published record, filed by residents since 2019, the busiest year was 2025 with 682; 771 in the year to 12 October 2026.
Lyttelton tops the recent record, read from each report’s own address text, so it is the reporting pattern, not a claim the problem is worst there.
Through the council’s reporting channel, the same channel every report on this page came through (Snap Send Solve). Each report is somebody’s word the problem was there.
Christchurch City Council’s public reports layer, resident-filed reports under the heading this page counts. Counts describe reporting, not verified inspections or fixes.