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USDA Listening Session In Chattanooga Monday
Thursday, September 7, 2006


Copyright WHR 2006

By Christy Howard Parsons

On Monday, September 11, 2006, USDA APHIS Animal Care will host a Listening Session from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Miller & Martin PLLC, Volunteer Building, 832 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Chattanooga, TN 34702. Registration for this session will be on site and begin at 1:00 p.m.

This meeting will be the sixth of six Listening Sessions Animal Care will be hosting in 2006.

According to Dr. Todd Behre, he will not be presenting this listening session. Dr. Gipson and Dr. Tuck will be making the presentation.

Dr. Behre has also confirmed that the scar rule clinic which was scheduled to take place in Tennessee has been cancelled. He did not elaborate as to why he would not be at the listening session or as to why the scar rule clinic had been cancelled.

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