That makes me feel better. I am not going hiking and I will be in tourist areas as I am traveling alone anyway. The strays are pretty benign, just ignore them, do not keep eye contact and you would be fine. You would probably not encounter them in touristy areas anyway, so no worries.
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Depends on your luck. I've ridden my bike in Taipei riverside and been chased twice by stray dogs that were trying to bite me. I did nothing to provoke them. Stray dogs can be feral in Taiwan. I've also seen plenty of strays on hiking trails.
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With lack of conservative and pet care knowledge, many foreign dogs were abandoned and start crossbreeding with Formosan Dogs. Sung believes that these are the two true reason that affect Formosan Mountain Dog's living space and the space for existence. The introduction of a variety of foreign dogs to Taiwan in the past was also a big threat to preserving the blood line of the Formosan.
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A lot of dogs non-native to Taiwan were brought over during the "Kuomingtang" Era, and many were released into the wild. These began mating with the native Formosan, making pure bred Formosans harder and harder to find in the wild. The Formosan Mountain Dog was originally kept by aboriginal Taiwanese as hunting dogs , but now purebred Formosans are extremely rare and valuable.
Since pure Formosans are extremely rare, there is a high risk of genetic disorder and unstable behavior due to the shallow gene pool. For this reason, crossing Foromosans with other breeds occurred often due to the lack of pure females with steady traits. This is one of the major reasons modern Formosans look different, compared to old photos or documents from the early days.
Some insist it is a natural change which does not affect the whole breed, while others actively fight to preserve the "pure" bloodline. Nevertheless, this breed is now popular all across the island as a watch and companion dog. Dog meat was never commonly eaten in general, and when it was eaten, it was usually only eaten during winter. But those that did partake in eating dog meat would frequently consume the meat of the black Formosan. In Traditional Chinese Medicine , dog meat was claimed to help retain body warmth. In though, consuming dog meat was banned by the Taiwanese government, due to both pressure from domestic animal-welfare groups and a desire to improve international perceptions, although there were some protests to the ban.
Taiwan Dogs are originally native Taiwanese dogs, descendants of the South Asian hunting dogs called the "Pariah dog" which ancient local inhabitants used to live with in the central mountainous districts. This breed was the loyal companion of the ancient hunter in the wild forest. Scholars targeted native Taiwan dogs as their subject, by visiting twenty-nine tribes of local inhabitants. As a result, it was confirmed that the present Taiwan Dog is a descendant of the South Asian hunting dogs.
This project was originally Ota Keming's idea, as he was tracing the origin of Japanese indigenous dog, so he sought Sung Yung-yi's help in completing his research project. Of the 46 purebloods that Sung Yung-yi found during , blood tests showed that they were related to dogs found in Southern Japan and that they were descendants of the South Asian Hunting Dog.
Since , many Taiwanese ecologists have tried to convince the Taiwanese government to take action on forming a Formosan research team to help and preserve the pure indigenous Formosan by potentially replicating the dingo 's model from Australia. The most notable action taken was by Dr. In , he spoke at a conference on the Formosan Sika Deer and requested Taiwan's government to take immediate action to protect Formosan Dogs. Sung's request was made because he and his colleagues had difficulties in finding pure-blood Formosan Mountain Dogs during his five-year studies from to In order to find sufficient population for his study, he located 29 Taiwanese aboriginal villages in the mountain ranges and initiated a mass search.
Nevertheless, only 46 out of Formosan Mountain Dogs he found had an A-rank purity. Out of these 46 Formosans, 25 were males and 21 were females. Sung told the New Taiwan News that, to this day, people in Taiwan do not have a strong respect for biodiversity.
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Sung believed that a Formosan Mountain Dog rehabilitation program should be encouraged by government efforts and carried out by careful planning. Currently, reproduction is the most urgent task. He believes, every Formosan Dog should be registered to a household, which specified mating. In recent years, Taiwan's government had not taken any action in protecting these indigenous Formosan Dogs.
Sung also said that after learning how Taiwan's government handled the Formosan Sika Deer Rehabilitation Project , he was discouraged, and did not dare have any thoughts on launching a conservation project for Formosan Dog. He said, "For a developed country, Taiwan currently is not one yet. For instance, it was often found that German Shepherds who perform intensive security duties on a daily basis will suffer from serious bruising on their paws.
Furthermore, they found that many German Shepherds' guarding mechanism towards strangers was not quite at the desired sensitivity.
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In many cases, strangers will need to get close for the dog to react. After half a month of testing, the ROC Air Force concluded that the Formosan Mountain Dog's sense of smell, hearing, dexterity, and alertness towards strangers were all more suitable for the purpose of guarding their fighter jets. More importantly, the Formosan Mountain Dog does not suffer from the bruising of the paws as the German Shepherds do. Most of the foundation stock owners and breeders are hesitant to make public appearances. They stay behind the scenes and sell only males to those who have Formosan dog kennels and attend local dog shows.
The most well-known and high-profile breeder is Ming Nan Chen. Like many born in the s, Chen owned a Formosan as a child. However, some argue that credit must be given to those breeders, as they are the ones who are keeping the bloodline pure. After two or three decades of breeding, training, improving, and purification, it is now unable to fully distinguish the indigenous and the new breed.
Further, it is also due to the subjective preferences of breeders and their belief of what the pureblooded Formosan should look like, which they created different trend of the "pure-blood. Such breeders also applied the "new type" of Formosan Mountain Dogs to the FCI to develop a "standard", which may be very different from what it originally should have looked like.
Breeders also created a conflict in debating for the future of the Formosan Mountain Dogs, as maintaining its purity or modifying through hybridizing it into a new type. For breeders who support purity, they believe that there is no need in improving the breed through hybridization. However, breeders who support modifying believe that, since Formosan Mountain Dogs have been accidentally cross-bred for centuries and it is not possible to identify and maintain its purity, then we should seek a "new type" of Formosan Mountain Dog with improvements. These two different points of view are still an ongoing debate and remain controversial.
Media related to Taiwan Dog at Wikimedia Commons. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Notes This breed is recognized with a pedigree from the Taiwan Kennel Club. New Taiwan Weekly News. Archived from the original on National Anping Harbor Histosrical Park. The Island of Formosa, Past and Present: London and New York: Aloha Aug 1, Zhang, Jing Ru; Photo: State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle.
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