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Dogs celebrated at Taiwan's first "Excellent Animal Care Teacher" awards ceremony

The 2025 Outstanding Animal Welfare Educator Awards ceremony featured several delightful moments, with two honoured teachers bringing...

Sep 23

AfA's biennial meeting held in Taipei; legislators from three political parties discussed animal protection policies.

The opening ceremony of the 2025 Asian Animal Protection Conference featured several high-ranking officials. The biennial Asia for...

Sep 13

Taiwan's first public dog pool opens in Taoyuan

Taiwan's first public pet playground was established at the Nanchang Animal Protection and Education Park in Taoyuan City. As the aging...

Aug 13

Taiwan's Hsinchu City's "city dog" was retired, sparking outrage over its "use it, throw it away" political show.

In November 2020, Lin Zhijian, who was the mayor of Hsinchu City at the time, announced that the 7-year-old stray dog, Palm Palm, had...

Aug 5

After publishing the "Pet Disaster Prevention Handbook", Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, launched a pet disaster prevention box for pets.

This peculiarly shaped cardboard box is the "Pampering Disaster Prevention Box" launched by the Kaohsiung City Animal Protection...

Jul 16

Taiwan launches exclusive insurance for high-risk working dogs, including medical and funeral expenses

The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) held a special press conference to announce the launch of full coverage for duty dogs to meet the...

Jul 16

A new chapter in Taiwan's animal protection education: National defense education curriculum uses AI robot dogs to interpret animal rights

The World Dog Alliance and the Life Conservation Association jointly promote the inclusion of animal protection education in textbooks by...

Jun 2

Taiwanese legislator reveals: "Vietnamese migrant workers sell dog meat and wild game" and is accused by anti-activism groups of ruining the case

For the first time in Taiwan, an illegal syndicate selling dog and cat meat and game meat at the same time was discovered. Left is a dog...

Apr 29

Taiwan's pit bulls bite people repeatedly, attracting a lot of attention, with public opinion tending to blame the owners

Taiwan has banned the import of pit bulls since March 2022 There have been a series of pit bull bites in Taiwan over the past two months....

Apr 14

“Wandering Cat” introduced in Taiwan

How popular is the pet industry in Taiwan? The well-known National Business Association recently held the "Pet Economy and Innovation...

Mar 21

Taiwan NGOs Environmental Conference: 3 of 6 animal protection issues are related to stray dogs

Since 2004, Taiwan has co-organized the "NGO Environmental Conference" every year by environmental protection groups to discuss the most...

Mar 14

Taiwan builds long-term care facility for stray dogs, supported by WDA's mobile kennel

As human lifespans increase year by year, so do pet dogs. According to Taipei City statistics, the average lifespan of pet dogs has...

Feb 5

Taiwan's officials and citizens look for new ways to house stray dogs and cats in place of shelters

There are about 160,000 stray dogs in Taiwan, and an unknown but considerable number of stray cats. However, the total capacity of...

Jan 8

AP: Diverging Legislative Approaches in the Fight against Dog and Cat Meat

WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESSWIRE / November 28, 2024 / In the global fight against the brutality that is the eating of dog and cat meat,...

Nov 28, 2024

Japanese School Dog Association Made Trip to Taiwan to Observe the Famous Taiwan's School Dogs

A report about school dogs in Taiwan shocked the Osaka-based Nippan School-dog Association, which specially entrusted the Osaka Office of...

Nov 15, 2024

Korea's National Institute of Animal Quarantine and National Taiwan University signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) on veterinary forensic medicine

The National Institute of Animal Quarantine ( NIA) (hereinafter referred to as the NIA ) under the Ministry of Agriculture of Korea...

Oct 28, 2024

Vietnamese woman married to Taiwan was accused of running a dog meat farm

Dog meat trade has appeared again in Taiwan. Both the buyers and sellers are Vietnamese. What is surprising is that the Vietnamese woman...

Oct 5, 2024