Iowa SF 564 Dangerous Wild Animals

SF 564 has been signed into law.

SF 564 has passed both houses of the Iowa legislature and it is now up to the governor to sign or veto the bill.

Please write or call the governors office and ask that he veto this bill. The Dangerous wild animal definition 5a(3) is as follows:

A member of the family felidae of the order carnivora, including but not limited to lions, tigers, cougars, leopards, cheetahs, ocelots, and servals.  However, a dangerous wild animal does not include a domestic cat.

 5b states as follows (Italics added):

"Dangerous wild animal" includes an animal which is the offspring of an animal provided in paragraph "a", and another  animal provided in that paragraph or any other animal.  It also includes animals which are the offspring of each subsequent generation.  However, a dangerous wild animal does not include the offspring of a domestic dog and a wolf, or the offspring from each subsequent generation in which at least one parent is a domestic dog.
 

Cats should have a similar exemption for wild and domestic crosses.

Also in the Wild Animal Registration Fee Schedule, the family canidae has no fees at all even though every other defined dangerous wild animal does have a fee associated with it.

Contact Iowa Governor Chet Culver here  and ask NOT to sign SF 564 into a law.

Kelly Crouch

Chair, TICA Legislative Committee