"Kona resident Tasi Autele founded Big Island Dog Rescue in 2015 to ship dogs off-island to mainland shelters that couldn’t keep up with the demand for adoptable animals. The organization funneled dogs out of the Humane Society and onto airplanes."  This is sort of like the anti-choice groups complaining the demand for adopting children is higher than the supply of available children. This is true is for children who are the right color the right age and are free of preexisting medical conditions. That statement by Autele should have been researched before taken as fact.