When I moved to Taiwan to teach English, I wasn't allowed to have a dog. Landlords here are very strict and will even go so far as to force tenants to cut their pet's vocal chords if they are too loud.
After seeing so many street dogs roaming aimlessly here, I decided to join one of the many groups here that help find them a home. The group that I joined, Taichung PAWS (www.taichungpaws.org), goes to a shelter in a rural town every month to help care for the animals and clean the shelter. It's in a bad state and the Taiwanese woman who cares for the shelter can't do it on her own.
Since, I've been with Taichung PAWS, I have seen 6-7 dogs out of the 30 there find loving foster homes as well as some even finding permanent foster homes abroad in the U.S., Canada and even Germany!
We do other things besides visiting that one shelter. We visit other organization's shelters as well as hold fundraisers, monthly meetings, TNR, CNR (among the usual medical and care treatment), promotional events and even took a small trip to the south of Taiwan to visit an exotic animal rescue shelter!
I have made so many friends (human and non-human) through Taichung PAWS and have learned so much! My next goal is to find a new (bigger) apartment that allows dogs and is in a quieter and greener part of the city I live in so that I can adopt one of the dogs and foster another.
I really like this site and hope you can help support those of us in Taiwan, who are doing what we can to educate the Taiwanese as well as give these loving animals a home!
Thank you!
Taichung City, Taiwan
