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Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 8:47 AM
To: Rebecca Corby
Cc: Council Testimony.
Subject: RE: Bill 139 changes to Hawaii County Code, Chapter 4 - Animals
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From: Rebecca Corby
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 12:31 AM
To: Runnells, Matthew S.<Matthew.Runnells@hawaiicounty.gov>; Council Remote Testimony
<councilremotetestimony@hawaiicounty.gov>; Roth, Mitch D<MitchD.Roth@hawaiicounty.gov>
Subject: re: Bill 139 changes to Hawaii County Code,Chapter 4-Animals
Aloha,
I'm been a part of the new Animal Control Community Task Force and volunteer animal foster/rescue for
years here in Puna.
A number of solutions were agreed upon at the task force meeting but I don't see them being
implemented yet and my concern is the focus
for the new agency is being put into things that are not what the public has been asking for. Here's what
we've been asking for:
1. Free/low cost and aggressive spay and neuter campaigns:this needs to be#1 priority of the agency vs
the old "catch and kill" model,we will never get a handle of the problem
if we don't do widespread spay and neuter to keep the islands animals at a manageable population.
Rather than collecting all the homeless dogs and cats and giving them a lethal injection
and sending their bodies to landfills,we should be spaying and neutering all dogs and cats to reduce the
population humanely
2. Tougher laws and Prosecution of owners of dangerous dogs-2 people have been killed in recent years
and countless more injured by loose dangerous dogs
and there still seems to be zero meaningful repercussions for the owners. How many more people have
to be mauled to death to make a real change in the prosecution of these Comm.No. .
owners? Ref. To:
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3. Tougher laws and prosecution of animal cruelty: hundreds of dogs live on short chains 24/7 forced to
live in their own pee and poop, exposed to the elements,with no socialization,
this is cruelty,just one example
4. Central point of contact needed for the public to find adoptable dogs and cats to foster or adopt or
look for their lost pets
Thank you, I look forward to your response,
Rebecca Corby
18 year Hawaii Resident
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