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Mitchell, Megan
Subject: FW:
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From: Murashige, Laura
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 2:14 PM
To: Mitchell, Megan
Subject: FW:
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From: LDMARTZ@netscape.com [mailto:LDMARTZ@netscape.coml
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:00 AM
To: counciltestimony@cohawaii.hi.us
Subject:
Linda and Larry Martz do not support Bill No. 301, particularly Section 4-19, Registration fees
for Cats, Section 4-20. Issuance of Registration and tag for cats. Section 4-21 Proof of
sterilization and micro-chip implanting. By using any form of collars, these animals would not
be able to hunt down rats successfully. Also any form of collars with or without tags will
jeopardize the safety of cats in their natural environment. They will get hooked up on just about
everything. If the pig hunters on record stated they take their dog collars off because of the
terrain, then it doesn't make sense to put cats in harms way since they are lower to the ground
then the average dog, and would get hung up much to easy in the lava rock, fern, and general
overgrowth. Also, it was necessary to own a cat to get after the rat overpopulation. I thought
common sense, and people that truly care about keeping animals safe and out of harms way,
would see that cat collars are brutal for the type of terrain this island is made up of. Limiting
people to only 4 pets per household is ridiculous, this is still a free country.
Please use the carefully researched and studied guidelines of the American Humane Society.
We must be responsible for these campanions and the ferals we have neglected. -This is
thoughtless legislation.
Mahalo,
Linda and Larry Martz
Papa Bay
Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
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