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ACT—Animal Care Trust ACT is a UK charity rescuing animals of any species, at any time, in northern Taiwan Donate now: https://AnimalCareTrust.org.uk/donate-now/
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10/04/2025

We're just about to hit the sack so we can head out early in the morning to rescue a stray dog with a large tumour on her face. But we thought we'd share a very quick update about Ocean.

He's doing so much better, is greatly loved by our sanctuary staff, and he's clearly enjoying the new creature comforts that come with being in ACT care.

He did have someone wanting to adopt him, but it sadly fell through. But we're still hopeful that the right home is out there for Ocean somewhere.

If you like seeing dogs like Ocean have their lives transformed, please consider donating today:

https://AnimalCareTrust.org.uk/donate-now/

And if you think you might be the perfect person for this deserving boy, send an email to our rehoming coordinator, Vickie: [email protected]

Follow our page, ACT—Animal Care Trust, for more updates! Good night, and please wish us luck for the rescue tomorrow.

*Animal Care Trust is a registered charity in Taiwan (1080024445) and the UK (1163828), dedicated to saving the lives of very sick or badly injured stray or wild animals throughout Taiwan.*

08/04/2025

TWO-LEGGED TAIWAN STRAY SAVED IN THE NICK OF TIME

We received an urgent message on Friday evening, from a feeder asking us to rescue a stray dog who has lost two limbs to cruel poachers' snares. Our rescuer Mimi headed out the next morning for the five-hour drive to where the dog comes to eat. Thankfully, it was a quick rescue, and Kiddo, as we've named him, was in the care of our founders that night.

Kiddo's injuries had already healed over, but something else became a serious concern: Kiddo's face and ears showed the kind of stress and strain seen in dogs fighting serious infection and trauma. And he was refusing all food and even water.

So we dashed the double amputee to a 24-hour vet for urgent blood tests—but nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary, and we were advised to keep observing the frail dog.

Later in the day, after a warm bath stimulated his bladder. Kiddo urinated onto a white p*e pad, providing a strong clue as to what might be ailing the friendly stray: his p*e was brown in colour, which, along with his other symptoms, is a strong indicator that Kiddo may be suffering with a dangerous leptospirosis infection.

Leptospirosis is a serious bacterial infection that dogs (and people) can catch from dirty water, puddles, or contact with urine from infected animals—especially rats. It can damage the kidneys, liver, and other organs and can be life-threatening if not treated quickly.

So we rushed the sweet stray back to the vet, where initial tests showed Kiddo does have the disease. He is still there, receiving fluids and antibiotics proven to combat leptospirosis infection.

Kiddo was already struggling to survive on just two legs, but an untreated leptospirosis infection could have been the death of him. We are hopeful that we saved Kiddo just in time—without even realising it.

Save a suffering stray in Taiwan. Dogs like Kiddo here often have no hope without our kind intervention. Please consider donating today:

https://AnimalCareTrust.org.uk/donate-now/

Follow our page, ACT—Animal Care Trust, for updates, and feel free to message us if you'd like to know about any animals that we rescue.

Fingers crossed we'll have good news about Kiddo very soon. 🤞

08/04/2025

WE GOT HER!

It took two days and nights, but our rescuer Mimi was finally able to locate the snare-maimed stray dog early this morning and half tempt, half push her into our humane trap. She's seeing a vet now for emergency attention before embarking on the long drive back to our local vet just outside Taipei.

We’re very grateful and relieved to finally have this beautiful dog in ACT—Animal Care Trust care.

Your donations make rescues like this possible: https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

Updates soon. We're also making an update video about Kiddo, the double amputee we rescued a few days ago, so make sure you're following our page to see how both these dogs are doing.

WE’RE ON OUR WAYThis snare-maimed stray dog followed some hikers yesterday afternoon in the southeast of the island. Our...
06/04/2025

WE’RE ON OUR WAY

This snare-maimed stray dog followed some hikers yesterday afternoon in the southeast of the island. Our rescuer, Mimi, headed out this morning on the six-hour drive and should arrive around 5 PM. Wish her luck! The dog is friendly, which makes the rescue much easier.

Your kindness gives dogs like this a chance:

https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

See our page, ACT—Animal Care Trust, for updates.

We will immediately ban anyone making nasty comments or unfounded accusations. Animal rescue in Taiwan is extremely harrowing, heartbreaking, and challenging. We do not accept ignorant, unkind, unhelpful comments on our page anymore. 

Genuine questions are always welcomed. 

We got him! The feeder was very helpful and our new rescuer, Mimi, did everything perfectly. The dog will stay at our fo...
05/04/2025

We got him! The feeder was very helpful and our new rescuer, Mimi, did everything perfectly.

The dog will stay at our founders’ home until the local vet opens on Monday morning. His injuries are terrible, but they have already healed over and there is no sign of infection, so there is no emergency, as it were. 

We’ve named him Kiddo.

05/04/2025

We received this video last night. A stray dog about four hours away on the east coast. He’s lost two limbs—almost certainly to poachers’ snares.

Our new rescuer, Mimi, headed out this morning and should be arriving in about an hour. The person who sent us the video says she can touch the dog, so we’re hopeful for a quick and easy rescue.

Wish us—and the dog—luck!🤞🏻

As soon as we have an update, we’ll post it, so if you’re seeing this post, just click on our page name, ACT—Animal Care Trust, and look at our more recent posts.

As always, your donations make a huge difference, allow us to give all these suffering strays a chance, and are truly appreciated.

https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

22/03/2025

A quick update about Ocean, the stray dog who has lost three feet to poachers' snares while living in a remote Taiwan village.

Our local vet has given Ocean a thorough examination and found that he is very anaemic, has a high white-blood-cell count (infection), and also tested positive for babesia, a tick-borne parasite. They suggest we make him comfortable at our dog sanctuary, restrict his movement, give meds for his ailments, and get him strong enough for surgery.

Thankfully, Ocean loves the raw food that we feed all our sanctuary dogs and cats, and he's getting two meals a day until he's at a healthy weight. We will start looking into orthopaedic boots and possibly a wheelchair to help him regain some mobility.

Ocean becomes the 90th trap or snare amputee at our dog sanctuary. These cruel devices are all over the island and, although largely banned, they still maim hundreds of innocent animals every year. Traps and snares are Taiwan's shame, and their victims makes up the bulk of our rescues. Ocean is far from the first snare amputee we've rescued even just this year—and sadly very far from the last.

We work around the clock to save maimed strays like Ocean, and we can only do so thanks to donations from kind people who want to make a difference to Taiwan's suffering strays.

Please consider donating to ACT today:

https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

Follow or page for more updates.

20/03/2025

OCEAN CAN’T RESIST

It’s 1:30 AM here in Taiwan and we’re about to hit the sack. But we thought you’d like to see undernourished Ocean enjoying a healthy meal before his bedtime.

We gave him about 450 grams of chopped raw chicken legs, egg, apple cider vinegar, and Irish seaweed powder. He wouldn’t eat while we watched, so we left him alone—and the camera rolling. Ten minutes later it was all gone!

It’s so important Ocean gets the best nutrition possible now and gains good, healthy weight. So we’re really happy to see his life has already started changing for the better. Tomorrow morning, the triple amputee will go to our local vet to start treatment for all his wounds and ailments.

Good night!

https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

20/03/2025

WE GOT HIM!

Thankfully, after a two-hour drive, it was a quick and easy rescue. We were able to net him while he lay nearby. He’ll stay at our founders’ home this evening and enjoy plenty of fresh, raw food. Then our local vet will do a thorough examination in the morning.

One of our sanctuary gardens has soft stable tiles, and he’ll live there with other dogs in need of extra care and attention. We will soon need to start building an extension in our newest dog sanctuary soon.

Your donation helps transform the lives of dogs like Ocean here, as we’ve named him.

https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

Many thanks to actor Chris Downs for assisting in this rescue.

16/03/2025

WE GOT HER!

She was extremely nervous, and as soon as she saw our net, she disappeared. We looked for her until it got dark, and actually we nearly were able to corner her in a building, but she found a small gap to escape from.

The last thing we want is for her to be so spooked that she goes into hiding for several days. So we decided to leave her alone after it got dark. We slept nearby in the car so that we could try to find her at dawn, hopefully sleeping and therefore easy to creep up on. But she was nowhere to be found, so we just had to sit and wait.

Thankfully, she reappeared around 9 AM. She was trying to eat a large, rotten, cooked bone that someone had dropped. So we threw her a raw chicken leg in the hope that she might be distracted enough that she wouldn’t notice us creeping up to her. But she took it and ran off, luckily Into a secure yard.

So all we had to do was wait for her to leave the yard and finally net her as he crawled under the gate—and it worked! Then we embarked on the four-hour drive back home. It’s a Sunday, and our non-emergency vet is closed today, so the bewildered pup is staying at our founders' home tonight, enjoying lots of healthy food, and will see our vet in the morning.

A couple of things we would like to explain after reading some of the comments on the photo that we posted of this pup:

Firstly, we didn’t take that photo; it was taken by a kind passerby, and we used a cropped version, which made her look closer than she was; but, as you can see from the video, she is not easy to get close to.

Secondly, we never try to grab or net a dog if we are not (almost) certain that we will succeed. The reason is that, if we fail, the dog now becomes super wary and much more difficult to catch, turning a one-day rescue into a one-week rescue or longer. And this nervous pup was living next to a fast road that she did run into a couple of times. The last thing we want to do is scare her in such a dangerous location and cause her to panic and run into oncoming traffic.

We are thankful that it took only 18 hours to catch her, and we were able to do so safely. She's now beginning a new, much safer, more comfortable, healthier, happier life.

Now, what shall we name her?

We’re currently in the east of Taiwan trying to catch this poor girl, who is suffering with terrible skin disease that’s...
15/03/2025

We’re currently in the east of Taiwan trying to catch this poor girl, who is suffering with terrible skin disease that’s left her furless and shivering.

We tried to catch her last night, but she’s very wary of our trap and even more wary of our net. We don’t want to scare her away, so patience is key. Thankfully, a nearby resident feeds her every morning in his yard and he is certain he can easily catch up just by closing the gate.

So now it’s just a waiting game. Fingers crossed she appears soon. It’s about 7 AM here right now. 

15/03/2025

We almost netted her, but she got away—the most frustrating turn of events, because now she is wary of us. She took a nap right in front of our trail camera yesterday morning but ran away thirty minutes later when she heard our rescue vehicle, so she's definitely on the lookout now.

Last night, the trail camera captured footage of her and her buddy suddenly running away from this spot in fear. It seemed like something scared them in the jungle behind them. And now they've relocated.

We spotted her about one kilometre down the road. We've decided to withdraw for a few days to let her settle, and then we'll be back with some cleverer traps. We'll get her soon.

OUR WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY DOWN AND WE'RE WORKING ON FIXINg IT WHILST ALSO OUT ON OTHER RESCUES. IF YOU WANT TO GIVE STRAYS LIKE THIS GIRL A CHANCE, YOU CAN STILL DO SO THROUGH PAYPAL:

https://www.paypal.me/ACTforAnimals

News of today's rescue very soon. Wish us—and them—all the luck in the world!

13/03/2025

Quick update on the three-legged stray dog we spotted with a nasty new snare injury on another leg. Fingers crossed we get her soon!

As always, your donations keep these rescues going and are greatly appreciated:

animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

More soon!

11/03/2025

Just after we rescued the dog seen in the previous video, we spotted this poor girl. She’s lost one front foot, and now the other has been cut down to the bone, almost certainly because of an illegal snare. We tried to catch her, but she jumped up into the jungle. So we drove back to Taipei with the original dog, who is now at the vet. And we’re heading out now to rescue this girl. It’s about 4:30 AM, and we should be there before 9 o’clock. Please wish us luck!

We’ve just driven four hours to Chiayi, in southern Taiwan, to rescue this badly injured dog. We haven’t found him yet, ...
10/03/2025

We’ve just driven four hours to Chiayi, in southern Taiwan, to rescue this badly injured dog. We haven’t found him yet, but we have found the house he sometimes goes to for food. They say he hasn’t been there today, so we’re staying overnight and will be back at dawn.

Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻

Want to help give stray dogs like this poor fella the chance of a better future? https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

28/02/2025

WE GOT THE SECOND DOG!

He was very interested in the food, but too wary of the trap after seeing his buddy caught in it. So we monitored him carefully, waited until he fell asleep in a convenience spot, and we were able to creep up and net him.

He’s already at the vet, and we are discussing a treatment plan for the nasty injury on his foot.

As always, these rescues only happen with your kindness.

https://animalcaretrust.org.uk/donate-now/

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