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On Friday, Apr 3, 2009 I received a response from Ann Zimmerman of the Wall Street Journal regarding my request for a follow up story on Hawaii’s feral chicken problems (see link to story in the previous post).  My question to her went something like this; If and when the state or county does take reasonable action to counter the obvious feral critter problem on Kauai and other islands, will you request a follow up story at some point down the road? Verbatim she responded, “You betcha!!! I will absolutely do a follow up!!!!” Well there we have it Hawaii, straight from the source at the Wall Street Journal.

If the State or County does something about the issue on our islands, we can then use it in a positive manor for Hawaii.  As many already know, I and many others have agreed to offer our time to help the state or county help each community in figuring out how to best counter the problem.  I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I’m all about exploring what some of them might be.  First off, each county needs a feral bird hot line that does not delegate the load onto the humane society.  The humane society needs to be working on what they do best, not running around answering loose chicken calls.  Second, each county needs a system for countering the issue.  Whatever it may be, people at least deserve to know something is in place and working on the problem, right?

Enjoy your day in paradise!