Despite all the money that Taiwan has spent on stray animal management, a three-year investigation of 140 government pounds by the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan (EAST) shows that the welfare of stray animals has hardly improved at all and stray animal numbers appear to be increasing.Read more and please sign the petition at : http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stopcrueltytostrays-Taiwan

Left to die after living in hell
Chen Yu-min, Secretary General of EAST, states: “The suffering I witnessed at the pounds was beyond imagination. All kinds of dogs are crowded together in small cages, and the weak or sick ones can’t find a space to lie down or even get to the mildewed food. There is no shelter from extreme weather conditions. Animals are just left to ‘naturally’, either by disease or by deprivation of food and water. This is a living hell for stray animals.”

Dog catchers lack animal handling skills and are unconcerned about the animals’ welfare. Animals are often piled up in trucks without ventilation or water for days. Then they are transported to pounds which are usually in garbage dumps, or in remote areas near cemeteries or slaughterhouses.

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