‘Cat issue’ spreads
The feral cat issue has reached Keauhou Shopping Center area.
The AdvoCATS group has been leading cat feeders as part of their catch/neuter/release program, and in the six years I have been a feeder, the population has declined — except not as fast as it should due to irresponsible cat owners dumping cats there.
Now Kamehameha Schools, the property owner, and mall management are making it a trespassing crime to continue feeding the cats.
Their solution is that now the 30 or so cats will wander the whole mall, starving, looking for handouts, and management will then scrape up the carcasses, I guess.
Where is all the animal-control money just allocated going, and why are they not leading to solutions including for cats, mongooses, pigs and goats that run feral all over town now?
Even trapping and euthanizing is more humane than starvation.
Stanley Chraminski
Kailua-Kona
A lack of empathy
It’s hard to give credence to the men who are so extremely vehement about abortion being wrong (“Sneaky pro-abortion move,” Tribune-Herald, May 17) and use lies, super-inflammatory rhetoric that is medically inaccurate (to say the least), and does not take women and their mental and medical needs into account whatsoever.
It shows little to no understanding of, or empathy for, women and the issues that are important to them, like their constitutional rights and the ability to handle their lives as they and their doctor deem necessary for their physical and emotional health.
Oh, and the Equal Rights Amendment was not a “sneaky” maneuver to create a national “right” to abortion, as the letter-writer states. It was an effort to protect rights already bestowed on women long ago.
Restricting well-established rights and society in general is the avenue to usher in a dictatorship.
Karen Cooper
Hilo
