Is your dog happy?
Image yourself in a giant’s world. You can’t speak but can howl, cry/whimper and bark.
Now, you just got lucky because a giant wants to take you home, but then ties you up on short leash or locks you up in small cage all day, every day. Are you happy?
Getting food is good, but you want to get to know your giant and be loved, give love, play, run, meet new giants and other animals and live a good fun life.
You can only voice that you’re not happy being tied up by howling, crying/whimpering and barking, but then your giant comes out and yells at you to be quiet. Happy?
What if you’re a puppy, and your giant puts a bark collar on you so when you try and communicate, you feel pain. Happy?
Dogs are not house alarms. They are living, breathing animals with spirits. They want to be loved, just like us. They want to play, run explore the world, just like us.
If you don’t have time to spend with your dog to truly get to know it, give it daily exercise, and really loving it as it deserves, then you’re wasting money on dog food and having to clean poop, because you are imprisoning your dog by tying it up all day and then hurting it by yelling at it when it tries to tell you it needs love and exercise, like we all do.
The Hawaii Island Humane Society (www.hihs.org) can help find a family who wants to truly love it and learn what it needs to make sure it has a happy, fun life if you don’t have time for it.
Dog walking services are on island. Learn about dogs on YouTube channels like “Dogs That.” Paws University offers dog training on island.
Jane Galvin
Kailua-Kona
‘Consumers of evil’
The “Sound of Freedom” movie, even if sensationalized, is a wake-up call.
When drug smuggling and human trafficking make headlines, we blame the evil cartels. However, the United States’ demand for drugs and the sex trade is the problem.
Supply and demand, fundamental economic principles, are why human trafficking continues. Plain and simple, we are major consumers of evil.
Corrupt morals and apathy are affecting thousands of lives. The movie industry capitalizes on depravity with explicit sexual content, and immorality is celebrated. Social media and government agendas facilitate deviant behavior under the pretext of freedom and tolerance. The consequences are dire.
Pornography in the mainstream media whets an appetite for sexual stimulation. It can lead to increasingly more deviant, perverse material, resulting in the porn industry booming at the expense of extreme human suffering.
Pornographic material contributes to unspeakable human abuse. Easily accessible, it ruins individuals, families and is a major reason for slavery. Sexually assaulted young children are victims of this evil industry, too.
To end slavery, the United States fought the Civil War, and England appealed to parliament and public sentiment. Today, it will take the same determination and perseverance to stop human trafficking.
Reach out to lawmakers to be a voice for those who are enslaved. Stop watching pornography! Stop viewing films with sexual content.
Be aware of those “grooming children” with things like drag queen entertainment at libraries and schools. Stop explicit age-inappropriate sex education.
Be informed. Defend the powerless. Most importantly: Pray!
Michele Lincoln
Lahaina, Maui