Dying Lives in 50 years: A Brief History of Taiwan's stray animals. (1) 1. When Strays Become a Social Problem (1965－) According to the newspaper, the earliest discussion about public order and environment issue which was caused by strays was from 1965. Just at that time, strays became a social problem. Although government tended to register the dogs’ master in force in 1969, it was Ineffective. After decades passed, strays became the first public nuisance in Taipei Capital City in 1994. In 1950s, it was infested with rabies in Taiwan. In order to control the epidemic, government united the police agency, department of health and council of agriculture to slaughter strays and ask register the pets’ owner. This serial actions restrained rabies in Taiwan indeed, and made government announce that rabies was vanished in Taiwan in 1959. We speculate there was not a large amount of strays to become a social problem, because of the slaughter and dog meat selling like hot cakes. To our confusion, from 1959 rabies was vanished, to 1965 strays became the social issue, what happened in this six years? From 1965 to 1994, the strays became the first nuisance, what did government respond in almost thirty years? (To be continued…)