2013年7月7日 星期日

Right Pet

  本次參與人數: 5

  Many of Taiwanese have pets but it’s sad that most of us don’t know the dark side of pets’ situation in Taiwan. We start our discussion with sharing our own experience of keeping pets. Most of our pets are bought by our parents when we were kids. Some of us are interested in pets at first, but get tired about it not longer after that. And then they realized that it is important to have patient when you keep a pet. We have the responsibility to take care of the pet once we decide to choose it as one of our family members. However, not all of pet owners in Taiwan could fulfill this commit. They give up to take care of their pets, and abandon them. Finally, it cause the problem of big number of stray pets in Taiwan. (Then we focus on stray dogs issue)

Reference essay:Taiwan photographer's crusade: Doomed shelter dogs

  This article is talk about the stray dog issue in Taiwan. The Taiwanese photographer took photos for shelter dogs, who are going to be killed. He wants use his own way to bring people’s attention on this issue. There are many stray dogs in Taiwan, many of these dogs are trapped and then be kept in shelter. Shelter dogs in Taiwan are killed after a 12-day waiting period, if no one come to adopt them. About 70% of these dogs’ fate is be destroyed.

  Since the number of stray dog does not reduce over years in Taiwan, we have to think about if there’s a better way to solve this problem. In some countries, they use TNR plan or ABC plan. And we agree that the most effective way to reduce the number of stray dogs is to control the birth of stray dogs. Because the source of stray dogs is come from stray dogs’ puppies. (And the other way is from abandon dogs.)

  Then we discuss about selling puppies or kittens in pet store. Some people think that pet stores and breeders not really have the full responsibility of causing stray dog problems, because that owners also have responsibility. Beside stray dog problem, we also talk about some dark side of pet store. Most of puppies are provided by home breeders or bad breeders. Mother dogs in home breeder and bad breeder are live in a terrible environment and become a machine to produce puppies. After they lose the ability to have babies, they are be abandoned.

  Finally, we talk about 動保法修正草案 in Taiwan. Maybe it is not the best way to solve problem, neuter dogs also brings some arguments of dog right, but that is a better way than we had before. Some people think that the best way is to prohibit selling puppies and kittens in pet store. And we hope that people in Taiwan could have the concept of adopting dogs rather than buy dogs in pet stores. We believe that we can find a right pet from adopting center, rather than from pet stores only.

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