Spay and neuter is the answer
Not feeding the cats is not the solution! A well-managed colony of beautiful spayed or neutered cats is an asset to the community. Feeding between dusk and dawn can help control the mongoose and birds, which are active during the day.
There are places around Kona that have proven that trap/spay/neuter/release works. We just had a small clinic in Kona and had over 20 cats, I have six in my garage recovering and will be released tonight. Stopping the birth of unwanted kittens is what trap and release is all about. Not everyone can deal with the death part of animal rescue but you can support the people who can as well as the mission — 3,939 cats where killed by the humane society last year. We can change that to 3,939 spayed and neutered this year.
Margie Gillman-Wolfe
Kailua-Kona
Wolf in sheep’s clothing
What was notable about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s letter in Friday’s WHT (“U.S. must stop helping terrorists fighting Syria’s government”) is what it omitted.
In her “fact-finding mission” to Syria, Gabbard has determined that all of the anti-Assad forces there are brutal terrorists, that none deserve support against the Assad regime.
She didn’t mention that she visited Bashar al-Assad himself, the bloodiest butcher of the 21st century, who with barrel bombs and poison gas has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilian men, women and children, and who with his Russian allies daily and routinely bombs schools and churches.
She doesn’t mention the obscure group in Ohio that paid for and guided her trip — it certainly wasn’t Hawaii taxpayers. Her trip was widely condemned by her colleagues and may have been illegal.
Nor does she mention her visit to Trump Tower days after her election, where — let’s guess — she discussed Trump’s interest in aligning with Assad and the Russians. Donald Trump Jr. met privately with pro-Russia diplomats and political figures in October to discuss the Syrian conflict.
Rep. Gabbard has a responsibility to remember who it is she’s representing in Washington. She was elected as a Democrat by Democrats, and she’s urgently needed in the halls of Congress right now to fight Trump’s unprecedented assault on health care, women’s right to choose, education, the environment, science and, ultimately, truth.
I call on Rep. Gabbard to resign immediately, take a position if she must with the Trump team, and allow us to send a true representative to Congress.
David Polhemus
Waimea