If you're a rodeo cowboy, know that rodeos will be a commingling point. Every time you bring animals together--at a rodeo, county fair, state fair, a sale barn--you are commingling animals.

We found that out two months after the fact. With TB that's not so bad, since it's a slow-incubating disease. If that had been foot-and-mouth disease, we'd have been in deep, deep trouble.

What's new is this electronic system so that we can gather information out of those databases very quickly. Instead of going through 50 files cabinets, which we have now, we'll be able to go through the databases.

It's best, though, to get premises ID done early rather than wait.

Animals with too much energy and those without things to occupy their minds will find ways to do something. Over time, these actions become something an animal needs to perform and are then seen as repetitive behaviors.

The first time that a person commits certain crimes against animals, it will automatically be considered a felony level offense charge.