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Iroquois County health panel forwards updated adoption and foster forms, discusses microchipping and cold-weather care
Summary
The county committee voted to forward updated adoption and foster-agreement documents to the full board and discussed animal-control operations, including adoption and transfer counts, a proposed $25 microchipping fee (annual clinic at $20), and outreach to reduce cold-weather welfare calls.
The Iroquois County Health Committee on Feb. 3 approved forwarding revised adoption and foster-agreement documents to the full county board and spent much of the meeting reviewing animal-control operations, shelter statistics and a proposed microchipping policy.
Eric, speaking as an animal-control representative during public comment, said intake is down compared with previous months: "We're down to, like, the twos and threes," noting the county previously handled "10 or 12 dogs." He described a new partnership with a Chicago nonprofit that certifies service dogs for veterans and said…
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