Can’t believe none of them are named “Ghost”.
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Took a walk down by the beach yesterday a bit out of town. Saw these two good boys tearing up a giant snake.
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Used to hate snakes now I feel bad for them
Don’t wanna be friends with them or want them near but they are a part of the ecology of Taiwan and I am sure they play a role in keeping rats down
Didn’t know dogs would attack snakes
Guess the snake didn’t survive ?
18 Shiba Inu dogs abandoned all tied up and packed in boxes…
Hope they will find good owners at adoption.
Just another dog’s day afternoon in Pingtung.
At least we finally found @Dr_Milker
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Yes where is our doc Milker ???
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The whole gang.
Bella (top left) is the mother of Snowy (top right) and Brownie (bottom right).
I never thought I would have 4 dogs, but here we are.They’re all lovely and get on well together for the most part.
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those puppies need a home
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Why would you steal them from their home?
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IF THEY LIVE THERE THEY COOL. many taiwanese feed dogs that belong in a particular street. Many street dogs actually have homes that they return to.
i grew up in taiwan when dogs were raised like kids were, freee to roam the streets.
i remember getting off school and going barefoot in the streets, running around looking for my friends and playing games in the streets, kicking cans, chasing, hide and seek, renting kids bikes by the half hour for one nt, or putting on my roller skates to terrorize pedestrians, etc. And there usually were snack stands selling fruits or bits of food, etc. And a couple stalls selling some simple toys. And neighborhood dogs (they usually dont stray far from their particular street) lived on the street and we often played with them if they knew us. I used to have many dogs follow me around and i would go bum some coins from my grandpa to buy cookies for the dogs at the corner snack stores. There was one on our street that made their own cookies and i would often have a small pack of dogs follow me to my grandpas clinic where i would barge in with my troop of dogs and bum coins from grandpa while he was treating patients. His patients often remarked that i was much dirtier being covered head to toe in dirt and mud from rolling around playing in the streets and parks than the kids who were delivering coal. They actually had coal deliveries back then. Most families had these sand filled ceramic large vases of some such where they would burn coal to keep the winter at bay (to little effect).
I hated winter in taipei because we were always so dang cold. NO heat in the concrete homes. Had to heat water in the water heater using coal or small logs. Winter sucked but it made a man out of you.
I would wander around at six or seven years old and visit all the shop houses around our street and into the next two streets. Some selling food, a goldsmith (i would watch the jewelers making jewelry and gold dragons, etc) and a friends house doubled as a factory making hair dryers, the kind the ladies used at the salon that comes down over their heads like a helmet. It was on such a visit to the hair dryer factory that they told me “your American President” has just been shot dead (pres kennedy). I was considered American by our neighbors because of my American father. So many decades later I went to where Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas and I remembered that moment when i was a kid.
Many memories down memory lane. I was fortunate to have lived in the taipei of the sixties. It wasnt modern for most of us, it was not as comfortable as living in what SF must have been then, but it was FUN. My friends and i (mostly the neighbor kids living next door or upstairs from me played games according to whether we were playing “small people” or ‘big people’. Small meant we had toys to assemble as “invading armies” while "big people " games meant we acted out scenes of fighting etc. good fun.
That childhood could not have been replicated in the calif of the sixties. Course the calif sixties was a whole new thing, but not if you were a child then as i was. Needed to be a bit older to enjoy the summer of love as my friend tim calls it down at the haight/ashbury when “free love” meant hanging around there at 16 years old and partying till you drop and getting invites from the ladies. Nope THAT was a different sixties than mine.
Mine was running around barefoot followed by streetdogs 
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There was a dog not far from my home, which was living on the street for at least 3 years.
I kept feeding her for several months.
The dog was very shy and timid, but after some time she let me about one meter close when I had something good to eat.
I encountered some auntie telling me, that there is no need to feed her and also that she is not going to eat if am I there.
She rather seemed jealous, that the dog trusted me much faster than her.
I could see how stressful and lonely it was for her (the dog) living there, spending a lot of time on a small parking lot with both traffic and pedestrians passing by close.
Maybe for the feeders it was a fun attraction to feed the dog, but the dog’s life still sucked ass anyway.
At some point the dog started to spend more time on an old armchair outside of a corner house.
Ok, the people put armchair there, but still the dog is living on the street, wandering around parking lot and the nearby streets, I could see sorrow in her eyes every time I went there, I kept feeding her, so I could hopefully find a new home for her once she trusts me enough to touch her.
Once (or twice?) a grandma from the corner house was shouting something at me quite aggressively. I asked my fiancée to translate it for me and well, yeah, it was like I should not feed her and some stupid reasons “why”.
So I insisted on my “spokeswoman” to ask the grandma, if she acts like she owns the dog, why does she not take her home to live with her?!!
Grandma instantly went from shouting to guilty mumbling.
The dog seemed more timid and shy after that - I hope the people spooking her were not the grandma and (probably) her son.
Still in the end, it seems, that calling her out helped, since the dog has disappeared, but we heard some barking from the corner house once (never heard it there before) when we went around.
So it seems the dog finally got a home.
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Well
If you feed it it will
Shit everywhere! 
Same issue with the puppies I feed. One has a severe skin issue and the “owners” are absent. The neighbors feed them, sometimes, but the 1000 year old granny is sick of the barking at night.
We don’t want to adopt them but with this heat this poor baby is gonna be in pain.
