Dog & cat populations still rising at 5% per year, but high spay/neuter compliance suggests leveling off is near TAIPEI, Taiwan––A rapidly rising spay/neuter rate may be overtaking annual 5% increases in the Taiwanese dog and cat populations just in time to save the eight-year-old national “no-kill” animal control policy from catastrophic collapse. A 70% […]
Life of Pei: the battle for compassion; my story and journey so far
by Pei Feng Su Lantern Publishing & Media P.O. Box 1350 Woodstock, NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The animal advocacy world knows Pei Feng Su as the intensely hard-working, politely amiable, fluently multi-lingual, supremely capable and outwardly poised founder of ACTAsia for Animals, a humane education society with offices in London, Taipei, and […]
Taiwan shelter director suicide illustrates global crisis
Jian Zhicheng was casualty of pressure to go no-kill Part I of a three-part series Part II: Many human casualties in global shelter “culture war.” Part III: Shelter culture war: “Heal. Then get up to fight the next battle.” TAIPEI, Taiwan––Veterinarian Jian Zhicheng, director of the Xinwu Animal Protection and Education Centre, on May […]
Taiwan adopts plan to become no-kill nation by 2017
Bans killing impounded dogs TAIPEI, Taiwan––The Taiwanese legislature, the Legislative Yuan, on January 24, 2015 adopted 25 revisions to the 1998 national Animal Protection Act that are intended to make Taiwan a no-kill nation. The revisions includes a ban on killing impounded dogs, to take effect in 2017. The ban resembles laws in effect in […]