LETTERS 04/28/08

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My five cats were all strays, rescued from various pitiful conditions, and while one of them, Mascara, loves to roll around on the front porch when she has a chance to dash out when I open the door, she knows that the food, toys, litter boxes, and safe places to play and sleep are indoors.

A little eight-pound cat is no match for the many dangers of the outdoor life: cars, dogs, cruel humans or coyotes. Responsible pet owners keep their pets indoors.

Elaine Hines

Kansas City, Kan.

The wolf, being kin to the coyote, is a totem for Cub Scouting: It is a merit badge. Many dens are named Coyote Den. Boy Scout campouts are frequented by the yipping and squealing of countryside coyotes, where they hunt and live. They are singing to the night sky, the stars and the moon.

Coyotes were here first; it’s coyote territory. Should the same thing happen to them as the Native Americans and their bison?

If outlying property owners want to protect their territory, then let them plant the traps in their own yards. These exploding traps have a recoiling mechanism that draws the coyote in closer, gradually allowing no room for struggle, only strangulation. No one would want to see that happen to a kid or pet.

The ugly part of “coyote ugly” is the people who want to destroy them for their own convenience.

Hutch Moshier

Tonganoxie

Feeling unwelcome in KC

I feel the Sprint Center and Power & Light District don’t welcome out-of-town spectators.

My husband and I live in Topeka and had to rush right after work to make it to the recent Bon Jovi concert, which began at 7:30 p.m. It was a scramble finding an exit off of I-70 that would lead us to the Sprint Center. No apparent signs directed us there. At 6:47, we found the Sprint Center but had trouble parking. There were numerous empty spots for valet parking, but where were the valet attendants?

By 7:25, we were standing in a long, congested line. Thirty minutes later, we had made it inside but missed the opening act.

After the show we hoped to have dinner, but none of the Power & Light District restaurants were serving food. We were back in Topeka at 12:39 a.m., heating up leftovers.

Shanna M. Dunn-Vigare

Topeka

Kittens dumped in trash

This is for the lowlife who threw five little kittens in two trash bins in Lenexa on April 22.

By not keeping them together, only two were rescued by some Sprint employees. The other three were found a day later. One got a home, but two were hauled off by Animal Control. Just so you know, one of those two did not look in very good shape. My heart was broken at seeing that little body crumbled and hardly moving.

There are plenty of shelters you could have taken them to. You are an irresponsible pet owner and a cold-blooded murderer.

D. Jeanine Wilson

Raymore

Missouri abortion bill

Missouri Right to Life applauds the Missouri House for voting to expand the informed consent laws on abortion. HB 1831, sponsored by Rep. Bob Onder, requires that a mother be offered an ultrasound, be informed about her child’s ability to feel pain and be protected from coercion.

It’s difficult to understand how anyone could oppose legislation that allows a pregnant woman to see her baby’s heartbeat or to learn about her unborn child’s development. And certainly no one supports the outrage of coerced abortions.

Missouri citizens would be well served if the Missouri Senate, who will now take up this bill, supports informed choices and protection for women by passing this legislation.

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