The success of a just-passed bill, to impose fines on those who fraudulently claim their pets as service animals, depends on shaming people into compliance.

Actually proving a dog or cat or cockatoo is not a service animal will be tough. So proprietors of businesses who question the appropriateness of their presence on the premises will need to ask the pointed questions.

Owners should be able to explain how an animal directly counters a disability. And if a case can be made for the cockatoo, then so be it. But a raised eyebrow can be a pretty effective deterrent.

Time to make way for Kilauea?

Sizing up alarming seismic activity off Pu‘u ‘O‘o — small temblors rattling at a pace of up to 10 per hour, for example — Hawaiian Volcano Observatory research geophysicist Jim Kauahikaua on Wednesday compared it with the prelude to a mid-1950s eruption in the lower Puna district.

In February 1955, at least two dozen vents opened up and down the Kilauea’s East Rift Zone. Before the flow stopped about three months later, lava had buried sections of every public road to the coastline. Kauahikaua’s sense of volcanic deja vu should spur residents and visitors alike to prepare to quickly get out of the way.