Aloha Into Action

Keep your ʻohana together — dogs included.

We help families understand and prepare for life with a service dog — especially travel, housing, airline paperwork, Hawaiʻi relocation, and service-animal readiness.

“Because ʻohana means nobody gets left behind.”

A family walking with their service dog along a Hawaiian beach path

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Ask Aunty

Have questions about your dog, service-animal preparation, or traveling together? Book an Ask Aunty phone call for personal guidance rooted in aloha.

Open to everyone — no membership needed. Can't make it? We'll happily reschedule.

Book Ask Aunty — $25

How we help

Service-animal education

Understand the rules, the difference between service, emotional-support, and therapy dogs, and how to identify disability-related tasks.

Training support

Improve travel manners and connect with trusted trainers and Hawaiian gear makers.

Travel preparation

Organize airline paperwork, airport and TSA day-of-travel preparation, and destination requirements.

Relocation planning

Hawaiʻi animal-entry preparation, rabies and quarantine timeline organization, and housing documentation support.

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Aunty Cindy smiling with a little dog and a young girl inside a church

Aloha, I'm Aunty Cindy

Born and raised in the Hawaiian islands, Cynthia Kuulani Teixeira is known as “Aunty Cindy.” A licensed massage therapist for over 25 years, former special education teacher, and advocate for people with disabilities and animal welfare, she formed Aloha Into Action LLC to keep families together, no matter what.

She is also an ordained minister and brings real-estate knowledge to every move. Aunty can do it all — we got you.

  • “He was such a good boy the whole way from California to Virginia!”

    Lauren ~ Grass Valley, CA

  • “Ellie's now home safe and sound — she did sooo well on all the flights.”

    Taylor ~ BC Canada

  • “I can't express how much I appreciate you!”

    Alex ~ Naʻalehu, HI

Our ʻohana on the move

A woman holding her small dog by the ocean on Hawaiʻi IslandA kupuna hugging a service dog in a blue vestA golden retriever settled at its owner's feet on a planeA man and his dog relaxing on a Hawaiian beachA black lab wearing a service dog vest on the grassA family relaxing at home with their dogA fluffy dog wearing a service dog harnessA dog in sunglasses and a lei on a beach towel

Weekly Aloha Updates

Monday briefings on airline, destination, animal-import, and biosecurity changes — including Hawaiʻi and Polynesian routes.

Read the latest briefings