Dying Lives in 50 years: A Brief History of Taiwan's stray animals. (Foreword 3-3) This issue has its own history in Taiwan. From 1965, a number of stray dogs rose up; it was overwhelming for the environment and brought about public security problems. The government set up dogcatcher teams in response to the demand by folks to solve the problem, caught the stray dogs uninhabited areas, where no one would witness the killing of the animals in “creative” and “efficient” ways. In 1988, the first non-for profit shelter for stray dogs petitioned the government to not destroy stray dogs in a cruel way, but to take a more humane approach in killing the animals in order to reduce the suffering while solving this problem. Subsequently, Taiwan’s animal protection law was legislated in 1998 by a grassroots movement. It made this issue on the basis of law. Over 50 years have passed since 1965, and the situation has not changed that much. There are still lots of stray animals in the environment. This article intends to review this issue in Taiwan, and it includes the origin of stray animals; when it became a social problem; how the government faced this problem; how grassroots got involved in this problem around the period of martial law in Taiwan; and what kinds of changes took place after 1998, the year Taiwan’s animal protection law was legislated. After we look back, we can understand the issue of Taiwan’s stray animals, and realize the situation has not changed that much. Their destinies are still tragic.