• County must enforce pet licensing law • Vote for those who will protect the island, people County must enforce pet licensing law Regarding the “suspected killer dogs put down” article about the monk seal death. If animal licensing/chipping laws are not enforced, this
• County must enforce pet licensing law • Vote for those who will protect the island, people
County must enforce pet licensing law
Regarding the “suspected killer dogs put down” article about the monk seal death. If animal licensing/chipping laws are not enforced, this will happen again and again. Someone might say it is impossible to enforce.
All that needs to be done is for the authority to mirror the census taking dynamic and cover this island, only with ticket books and scanners.
The leading line would be “do you own cats and or dogs?” and if they do, “by the authority of the County of Kauai, I need to scan your dogs” and take it from there.
Dogs bark when they hear a knock at the door or even less so that would be an automatic indicator without even questioning, though the questioning would be required, as the dog(s) might be off property. The scanner scans, no number pops up, and the ticket book is for issuing a fine for noncompliance payable upon presentation of licensing/chipping receipt.
Rangers, police, all should have scanners and the authority to scan at will. The revenue via fines would alone pay for scanners and the labor. It could be a semi-annual procedure.
Yes, it is forcing that portion of the public that is irresponsible to be responsible. That’s what enforced laws are about.
Don’t do this, it will happen time and time again. It is human nature — tie these animals to “wallets” and suddenly people are concerned as to where their animals are and what they are up to.
Christopher Schaefer, Kapaa
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Since the voluntary “Good Neighbor” program began in late 2013, the big five sprayers of restricted use pesticides have applied at least 869 pounds of atrazine, 722 pounds of paraquat, 389 pounds of alachlor and 1,051 pounds of chlorpyrifos. All of these chemicals have been shown in peer reviewed scientific studies to be endocrine disruptors, putting at risk the embryos of women yet to be diagnosed as being pregnant. Minute quantities of endocrine disruptor chemicals can impair important hormonal developmental changes in the fetus. These hormones can affect change in quantities of tenths of a trillionth of a gram. That is like one second in 31,690 years.
Endocrine disruptors can interfere with signaling systems that determine every aspect of embryonic and fetal development. Altered gene expression in the fetus is scientifically linked to “abnormal gonadal development, infertility, ADHD, autism, diabetes, thyroid disorders, and childhood and adult cancers.”
The insecticide chlorpyrifos sold as Lorsban and Cobalt has been on the market since 1965. It was phased out of domestic use by 2005. In 2001, the metabolites of chlorpyrifos were found in 82 percent of 1,000 urine samples taken from 20- to 59-year-old people from many regions of the U.S. Chlorpyrifos attacks the neurons that appear in the early stage of brain and central nervous system development.
Doesn’t every parent want their kid to be smarter than they are? Does the voluntary 100-foot buffer around schools protect pregnant women picking up their kids from agricultural chemicals like chlorpyrifos which easily volatizes and clings to the dust? It doesn’t take much endocrine disruption to have a profound effect on the future of the unborn. Thanks to judge Kurren, we will not even get a peek at how much glyphosate, another powerful endocrine disruptor product, is being used by the big five.
If any of this matters to you, the Kauai voter, I urge you to vote for County Council candidates Cowden, Bynum, Hooser and Chock who, I believe, have a sense of the profound change chemical warfare agriculture can inflict on people and the land. Dustin Barca has the vision to move forward in protecting our keiki. Remember what a unique spot of the Earth we live on, where fresh water flows from a swamp perched on top of a basaltic mass rising over 20,000 feet from the ocean floor, sticking up high enough in the sky to wring rain from the clouds. If the agrochemical complex gets a political stranglehold on this island, you can expect a growing litany of sad tales of families struggling with health issues. Vote for a cleaner future. Endocrine disruptors threaten human generations to come.
Ned Whitlock, Kilauea
