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Attn Illinois dog owners

Please forward immediately to all Illinois contacts!

Here's an Illinois bill to support - SB 1637 "Animals-Identification Scan" - it's an IFDCO (IL Federation of Dog Clubs and Owners) initiative bill which - if enacted - would help to ensure that your own pet would come home safely to you by requiring that shelters check for other forms of pet ID upon impoundment of a lost or "at large" pet; requiring shelters perform a second microchip scan before euthanizing or transferring a pet after any required hold time has elapsed; and requiring that shelters contact the secondary names or original implanter of a microchip if the primary chip contact could not be reached or refused to reclaim the animal.

You can read the full text of this bill here:

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/...B1637sam001.pdf

The sponsor of the bill is Pam Althoff (R-32).

SB 1637 is being heard tomorrow in the Senate Ag Committee at 11:00 am. We need your help first thing in the morning to make certain that this bill advances. Please call the committee members and tell them to support SB 1637, "Animals-Identification Scan."
Senate Ag Committee members are as follows:

Michael Frerichs – 217-782-2507
A. J Wilhelmi – (217) 782-8800
Linda Holmes -(217) 782-0422
Toi Hutchinson - (217) 782-7419
David Koehler - (217) 782-8250
Martin Sandoval - (217) 782-5304
Sam McCann - (217) 782-8206
John Jones - (217) 782-0471
Kyle McCarter - (217) 782-5755
Sue Rezin - (217) 782-3840

IFDCO has just mailed out a legislative alert on this bill - you can read it at this link if the below image is not clear.

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u...mp;e=b03314f990