0INE PLOY: The Taipei Animal Protection Office’s Wu Ching-an said that some people were baiting others into offering illegal services to get reward money
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 28, 2018
By: Shen Pei-yao and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
People can be fined NT$100,000 to NT$3 million (US$3,247 to US$97,396) for
People on Monday walk dogs from the Taipei Animal Shelter.
Photo courtesy of Taipei City Animal Protection Office
offering boarding services for pets without a permit, the Taipei Animal Protection Office said yesterday.
Only licensed businesses with permits from local authorities are allowed to breed, trade or offer board for animals, it said, citing Article 22 of the Animal Protection Act (動物保護法).
The office carries out regular inspections on popular pet-trading Web sites or fan pages to check that vendors using them have provided license numbers, said Wu Ching-an (吳晉安), the head of the office’s animal rescue team, adding that only legal vendors with permit numbers may engage in the pet trade.
This year, of the 155 cases of dog or cat breeding, trading or boarding services offered online that the office inspected, five — three cases of trading and two cases of boarding without a permit — were found to contravene provisions of the act, the office said, adding that fines in the cases had a combined total of NT$450,000.
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