Dying Lives in 50 years: A Brief History of Taiwan's stray animals. (2) 2. When Strays Become Trash: the Cause of Strays (1960s－1970s) Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration commissioned two professors to research on improving strays management. They found there were three sources to cause capital strays: puppy mills, incompetent masters, and permissive government. There are two demands combined together to make a puppy market, one is the economics and urbanization developed quickly, people wanted pets; the other is that expensive foreign purebred on behalf of status, it’s a vanish for rich. The puppy market became popular. Besides, the policy of “as living rooms as factories”, puppy mills was in the recommendation list. Because of the low entry barrier, more and more people got involved in this industry. It has become very popular in 1970s. In the particular zone, you could see puppy mills just after the pet store on whole streets. While living-room-factory puppy breeds, Taiwan was not the only one. Japan also had a similar process because of the industry and family structures alteration. Meanwhile, there were no related law or system to manage this condition. Finally, the dog market crashed, and as puppies as products, if it is over the golden selling period, unscrupulous businessmen will abandon adult dogs to cost reduction. In addition, the concept of neuter was not quite common, strays had lots of baby puppy. The amount of strays went up. Therefore, strays became a public order and environment issue in 1965. Government has asked pet’s maters to register their dogs in order to control the rabies in 1950s. However, there was no infliction for violation masters and industry. Face the incompetent master and unscrupulous businessmen, government offered no solution. (To be continued…)