It’s so hard because you don’t realize that by giving them food, letting them continue to reproduce — they’re having this huge impact on our native species here, it is a really hard subject because people really love their cats.

Ryan Jenkinson

The parasite, for some reason, really reacts strongly with marine mammals, it has a disproportionate effect on monk seals … The worst part about it is, it seems to target females, especially pregnant females.

They are incredibly destructive animals to the native species in Hawaii.