This guide is to help new feeders locate the feeding spots at the Kona Waste Transfer Station. When you place food down for the cats, be sure to place it only on solid lava or solid cement. If you place it on the gravel or dirt, the cats will not only eat the food. They’ll eat the gravel or the dirt. I have seen cats bleeding from the rectum from sharp little pieces of lava rock being expelled :(.

Each stop has at least one water bowl. Sometimes the staff at the transfer station throws away the water bowls, so it is helpful to have a couple extra with you.

The cat are typically fed after 4:45pm for a number of reasons:

  1. There is less traffic.
  2. The staff at the transfer station leaves starting at 4:30 PM, so they are not in the way.
  3. The transfer station closes at 6 PM.
  4. The cats are used to this time.
  5. The weather isn’t as hot and oppressive.

Aerial Overview of Feeding Spots

The first feeding stop is on the right as you come in on Hale Makai Place. Generally, there are two or three cats there at the start. After you leave, more cats will come out to eat.

The second stop is adjacent to the police station. The number of cats here can be 5 to 12. 

Third stop is that the entryway to where they keep cars that have been towed. There are two to five cats here.

The next stop is right before you go through the main gates into the dump area. There is a flat dirt area there and one or two cats come out.

The next stop has a flat rock which you can see where the cats are eating and then there’s another flat rock right as you go towards the shrubs. To the top left of the image below, where the edge of the road ends and the shrubs begin, there is a water bowl hidden behind the rocks so the wind doesn’t blow it away. 

The next three stops are behind and adjacent to the recycling area. The first of these stops is next to where there’s often a tractor bulldozer sitting. The number of cats here varies from four to eight.

Immediately across from there is a small, obscure path that leads to an old pallet. Place the food on the pallet, and note the water adjacent to the pallet. You’ll be lucky to see one cat initially, but if you come back in 20 minutes, there will be five or six.

The next step back here is adjacent to the cardboard recycling. The number of cats here varies — sometimes four, sometimes twenty. It just really depends.

The next stop is up by the dump where you throw your refuse in the containers. There’s two stops right here in our side-by-side. If you see the pictures, one stop usually has three to seven cats and the other stop is 15-20 feet away. You may only see two or three cats but after five minutes, there may be seven or eight kittens that come out.

The next stop is as you leave the dump and right before you get to the intersection where you can either could go left to exit the area or go straight towards recycling. There’s a gated fence where two to four cats come out.

The next stop faces away away from that stop towards the cardboard recycling. There’s an area that you can see in the picture on the right side adjacent to the fence and there will be two to four cats that come out in that colony.

The last stop is on the right as you leave. You’ll go by a power infrastrucure station, and beyond that, and there will be two big rocks on a little road there. The number of cats here fluctuates from two to twelve. I think this fluctuates so much because traffic is so heavy there that many cats simply get run over.