A pet owner in Keelung whose pit bull on Tuesday attacked and killed a stray dog has been met with outrage online.
The incident was the second time the pet — owned by a man surnamed Chen (陳) — has attacked a stray dog, a person said on a Facebook page for Keelung residents.
A woman who witnessed the attack said it was sudden and that the pit bull would not let go of the other dog’s neck.
Other witnesses attempted to chase the pit bull away with brooms after realizing that the stray dog would die if the attack continued, she said, adding that she also tried to stop it by throwing a helmet at it.
The pit bull did not let go until the owner pulled them apart, she said.
The owner took the stray, which was covered in blood, to a veterinarian, she said.
Chen does not control his dog properly, one of Chen’s neighbors said.
Once she and her child were almost involved in a car accident because Chen had let the dog out of his house, the neighbor said.
The dog might attack a child or an elderly person, she said, adding that it poses a major threat to the safety of residents.
Chen was fined NT$30,000 after his dog in May last year entered a nearby apartment building and injured a stray dog on a staircase, Keelung Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office Director Chen Jui-pin (陳瑞濱) said on Thursday.
Chen Jui-pin quoted the owner as saying that he always keeps the dog in his room, but due to construction activity on Tuesday, his mother let it into the living room.
The owner said that as he was opening the door to enter the house, the dog rushed out, and he ran after it, but by the time he caught up it was too late, Chen Jui-pin said.
The owner could face charges for breaching the Animal Protect Act (動物保護法), Chen Jui-pin said.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching