Forced to evacuate without your pet or service animal?

Senator Fontenot (District 13, Louisiana) is searching for Louisiana
evacuees who were stopped from evacuating from Katrina with their
pets, in order to enlist their help with testifying in support of
upcoming emergency pet evacuation legislation.

The bill is to be introduced on 3/27/06. It will be pre-filed this
Friday (3/17/06).

Cathy Wells is the staff member from Sen. Fontenot's office who is
collecting statements of affected parties.

Cathy Wells
Email: wellsc@legis.state.la.us
Phone: 225-342-1126

We need people that were separated from their service animals and those that were NOT allowed to evacuate with their pets to contact their state senator and state representative and ask them to co-author this bill. The author wants to know the facts of those who were not allowed to evacuate with their animals, especially service animals. We also need these same people to testify when the bill is heard in both the senate and house committees.

On Friday evening or Saturday morning you should be able to find the bill on our site."
The bill will introduced on 3/27. It will be pre-filed this Friday.

You can access it from: www.legis.state.la.us

Look under Fontenot and 2006 Regular Session.