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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> JUN-20-2006 TUE 09:48 AM CofH County Clerk Office FAX NO, 808 961 8912 P. 21 <br /> Page 1 nf2 <br /> <br /> <br /> Watanabe, Donna <br /> <br /> From: Old W0lfes®a0l, corn <br /> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:23 PM <br /> To: Arakaki, James <br /> Subject: Sill #301 <br /> <br /> Dear Council Members: <br /> <br /> / am Writing because / do not support Bill No. 301, Artic% 4, Section 4-19, Registration fees <br /> for Cats; Section 4-20, Issuance of registration and tag for cats and Section 4-21, Proof of <br /> sterilization and microchip implanting. <br /> If cats are microchipped, the H1HS already has a complete list of ALL microchipped <br /> animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits and birds, in their microchip registry. If the animal is <br /> already microchipped and listed with the HIHS, this proposed registration with tags is <br /> totally redundant. <br /> <br /> The $4 or $10 fees proposed can't begin to pay for the personnel required to run such a <br /> program. Its fiscally unsound. <br /> Is the county prepared to hire "cat police"to enforce this cat registration or are the <br /> already overworked H1HS staff supposed to do this, too? Laws on the books now are going <br /> unenforced because oflack ofmanpower. <br /> Most cats in this county are mousers and ratters, thank goodness, Wearing collars with <br /> tags would make it virtually impossible for the cats to do their rodent controijobs. Rodents <br /> have excellent hearing and a cat might as well be wearing a bell as a tag. <br /> Of course, there's the problem of collars on animals outside. it's very easy for a cat to get <br /> caught on obstacles while wearing a collar and people buy the cheapest collar, which is <br /> certainly not the breakaway variety. 1m sure finding a dead cat caught upon an obstacle <br /> isn't a pet owner's dream come true and this unpleasant picture will keep many from <br /> bothering with registration and/or collaring their cats. And if they did buy the breakaway <br /> variety, they'd be regularly having to get new tags as the tags would be hanging on the <br /> collar that's hanging on the obstacle after the cat is gone. <br /> Another issue is TAW for abandoned cats and their offspring, It's my understanding that <br /> the County Council adopted a resolution some time ago advocating TNR <br /> (Trap/Neuter/Return (Release) as the only workable and acceptable way to deal with <br /> abandoned cats and their offspring. This proposal flies in the face of that resolution. <br /> <br /> The H1HS already has in place a system whereby people who desire to have their cats IU'd <br /> can get numbered tags. <br /> We believe these sections of the bill are i/1-conceived and illogical for the above stated <br /> reasons. Your efforts would be better served doing something about the growing <br /> mongoose and feral pig problem, <br /> <br /> Thank you foryour consideration, Margie Gil/man-Wolfe Comm. No. <br /> q37 Z-- <br /> 71-6502 Leialoha St. Ref. To:rr <br /> Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 ef. Date <br /> 6/20/2046 <br />