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Mitchell, Megan
From: Murashige, Laura
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:41 AM
To: Mitchell, Megan
Subject: FW: Registration for Cats
-----Original Message-----
From: COLIN & ROWENA GOULD [mailto:rocokona@aloha.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:09 AM
To: Higa, Stacy
Subject: Registration for Cats
Dear Council Members,
I am writing because l do not support Bill No. 309, Article 4, Section 4-19, Registration
fees for Cats; Section 4-20, Issuance of registration and tag for cats and Section 4-21,
Proof of sterilization and micro-chip implanting.
If cats are microchipped, the HIHS already has a complete list of ALL microchipped
animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits and birds, in their microchip registry. If the
animal is already microchipped and listed with the HIHS, this proposed registration
with tags is totally redundant.
The $4 or $10 fees proposed can't begin to pay for the personnel required to run such
a program. It's fiscally unsound.
1s the county prepared to hire "cat police" to enforce this cat registration or are the
already overworked HIHS staff supposed to do this, too?
Most cats in this county are mousers and ratters, thank goodness. Wearing collars
with tags would make it virtually impossible for the cats to do their rodent-control
jobs. Rodents have excellent hearing and a cat might as well be wearing a bell as a
tag.
Of course, there's the problem of collars on animals outside. Its very easy for a cat to
get caught on obstacles while wearing a collar and people buy the cheapest collar,
which is certainly not the break-away variety. I'm sure finding a dead cat caught upon
an obstacle isn't a pet owner's dream come true and this unpleasant picture will keep
many from bothering with registration and/or collaring their cats. And if they did buy
the break-away variety, they'd be regularly having to get new tags as the tags would
be hanging on the collar that's hanging on the obstacle after the cat is gone.
Another issue is TNR for abandoned cats and their offspring. Its my understanding
that the County Council adopted a resolution some time ago advocating TNR
(Trap/Neuter/Return (Release) as the only workable and acceptable way to deal with
abandoned cats and their offspring. This proposal flies in the face of that resolution.
Comm No. • "
120
Ref. T(m PC
Ref. Date
6/20/2006
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The H/HS already has in place a system whereby people who desire to ha ve their cats
ID 'd can get numbered tags.
We believe these sections of the bill are ill-conceived for the above stated reasons.
We would, however, support that all non-microchipped animals reclaimed from the
HIHS be microchipped and entered into the microchip data base before release to
their owners, at the owner's expense.
Thank you for your consideration,
Rowena Vaca
75-5773 Kaila P1.
Kailua Kona, HI 96740
6/20/2006
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Mitchell, Megan
From: Murashige, Laura
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 3:15 PM
To: Mitchell, Megan
Subject: FW:
---Original Message-----
From: COLM & ROWENA GOULD [mailto:rocokona@aloha.net]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 2:31 PM
To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject:
urge you all again to fax a letter - that states I, Rowena Vaca, 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.
Sincerely,
Rowena Vaca
P.O. Box 2123
Kailua Kona, HI 96745
6/20/2006