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<br /> Page 1 of 2 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> - - <br /> From: rivaut@netscape.com <br /> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:12 AM <br /> <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us; Jacobson, Bob; Pilago, K. Angel; Hoffmann, Pete <br /> Subject: OPPOSING CAT COLLARS re: BILL 258 Animal Control Bill Testimony <br /> Attachments: animal control bill testimony nov 14.doc <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Begin forwarded message: <br /> <br /> From: <rivaut@netscape.com> <br /> To: Me <rivaut@netscape.com> <br /> Subject: Opposing Collars for Cats Animal Control Bill Testimony <br /> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:49:03 -0800 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> November 14, 2006 <br /> Dear Chairman Higa and County Council Members, <br /> <br /> CAT COLLARS PUT PETS AT RISK. <br /> <br /> <br /> I have read and hear conflicting information on the Animal Control Bill regarding whether it will be <br /> mandatory for a cat to wear an identification collar, an identification tag or have a microchip for <br /> identification. <br /> <br /> Prior to the advent of microchips, I put collars on my pet cats. Over the years there were problems. <br /> Kittens and active cats sometimes got the front of their collar twisted back up over their chin and into <br /> their mouth, where they could not dislodge it. They would fight the collar, gagging and drooling <br /> profusely in panic until someone pulled it back out of their mouth for them. <br /> <br /> Sometimes cats would get caught by the collar on barbed wire or fences, as well as in brush and <br /> branches. <br /> <br /> One of my cats vanished for weeks, finally reappearing almost dead at half the body weight. Two of his <br /> canine teeth were broken off completely from the gums and the collar frayed past recognition as a result <br /> of freeing himself when he was hung up by his collar. <br /> <br /> I now use microchips to identify my pet cats. It is not consistent to spend money altering, vaccinating, <br /> feeding and caring for a cat and THEN put a collar on its neck that can turn into a death trap. <br /> Hopefully, the newspaper article that said microchipping meets the requirement of cat identification is <br /> correct. However, IF the Animal Control Bill REQUIRES COLLARS for cats, I would ask you NOT <br /> TO SUPPORT 19 O , So <br /> that Bill, please. Comm. No• I <br /> Ref. To: M <br /> Ref. Dote NOV 1^____ _ 5 200Z <br />