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With all this bickering over brand inspection, deputy Barney, the US 
constitution and all, I went down and pulled out my Coggins card. It 
identifies the horse, breed and me as the owner. It has three pictures 
on it. On the back it identifies itself as an official document under FL 
law - giving the law and administrative code numbers. It is laminated 
holographed plastic - like our drivers license. There is no question 
about the owner and there is no question about the horse.

It also gives a phone number to the FL dept of ag. Given it is an 
official identification card issued by the state of FL it is good enough 
for any state in the union for ID under federal law and the US 
constitution. I don't even think deputy Barney could get this screwed up.

On the other hand given some of the Coggins I have seen and what we used 
to have - before we went electronic - I can understand someone having 
issues. However, even those flimsily pieces of paper are official state 
documents and as such are binding and have to be honored by other 
states. Deputy Barney might not want to but when push comes to shove he 
has no choice.

Truman

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm 
not sure about the former."  Albert Einstein





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