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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> November 29,2006 <br /> <br /> I oppose Bill 258 for the following reasons. <br /> <br /> The portion relating to cockfighting is a reiteration of legislation <br /> already in place; 711:1109. It might be understandable if we had <br /> some great proliferation of cockfighting, but there is none, quite the <br /> contrary. I feel HPD is controlling this so why does it need to be <br /> restated? If this is pandering to a special interest group such as the <br /> Humane Society of the United States be aware that US Senate level <br /> testimony has been given, complete with evidence, showing this group <br /> to have strong ties with Animal Liberation Front, domestic terrorists. <br /> This can be viewed at <br /> http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/pro/docs/050518 Mart <br /> oskoSenateTestimony.pdf . <br /> <br /> <br /> There is still no prohibition and penalty of the feeding of feral cats. <br /> 11/26/06 Hawaii Tribune-Herald carried an Associate Press story <br /> regarding invasive species. Among those listed were the feral cats <br /> living at Iolani Palace: real nice promotion for tourism: Come visit <br /> Hawaii, the kitty litter box! 11/28/06 this same paper had another <br /> story by Associated Press, from Kauai where a self-called <br /> "compassionate" group of cat feeders refuses to leave a mall area a <br /> prior manager had the bad judgment to let themselves set-up in. Just <br /> like other places, the cat numbers are growing and now these <br /> "compassionate" cat-feeders are pushing the business owner through <br /> the hoop by boycotting the mall. Some compassion. Across the United <br /> States this sort of compassionate coercion is rearing its ugly head. But <br /> what a lovely way to have your cake and eat it too: these animals only <br /> need to be neutered and fed: nobody has to license or ID them or <br /> clean-up after them and they can do as they please since nobody is <br /> responsible beyond that. Exactly by what authority was another <br /> predator installed and maintained? For that matter then, anyone could <br /> develop a feral pit bull colony on this same basis: no responsibility <br /> besides feeding them: how easy. <br /> As for feral cats not attacking people: this is absolutely not true. As a <br /> youngster I remember horrific incidents. Some 40 years ago, the <br /> <br /> Catskills in New York had an extreme problem with feral cats. These <br /> were products of people who spent there summer vacations there and <br /> left without the kitty they adopted. There were numerous attacks on <br /> children, mostly under 5, for whatever food they had. But the one I <br /> remember most was of a feral cat jumping into a baby buggy, the <br /> mother going after it, getting lacerations all over her upper body and <br />