Daniel Yi on June 06, 1998 at 21:29:45:

Greedings every one.Sorry I can't type in chinese, so you would have to bear with me.After reading the stories posted on your website, I was deeply touched.

I should introduce myself first.My name is Daniel Yi, I am 26, living in Canada right now. I was borned in taipei, left taiwan when I was 13; but don't worry I could understand chinese perfectly.

I like to congradulate you for the fine job you are doing; and I want to thank you for putting this website on the net. actually I ran into this website by accident; I was browsing ms. Huan's page on Yuan when I saw "dog lovers, press here", I have been a dog love since I was born; so I had to press.

after reading the stories, I almost cried. Since I was a little boy I had been collecting unwanted dogs around my neighborhood. I would bring home dogs, cats, birds, bats, rats, fish...anything I can find around the neighborhood. of course I can have so many pets, so my mon would let the animals go when I go to school in the morning. every time I come home I would cry because my animals are gone. but I don't give up, I would bring home more animals; usually puppies, again and again.

Once I took home a pregnant dog home; as usual, my mon open the door and let her go. but when I came back from school, I found her near a garbage pile. she started to live around the garbage pile, I called her "lightning" (in chinese of course, I didn't spoke a word of english back then), because she was yellow and runs very fast. she became my pet, eventhough my mom won't let her in the house, we have lots of fun together. every time she sees me, she seem to be very happy, I thought she was happy for the food I was bringing her, but now I know that she was also happy to see me.

After a while, her belly got really big, I knew she was going to have puppies but don't know when.

one day after school, I couldn't find lightning in the usual places. then I found her inside a hideout, she had puppies! 9 of them! I was so suprised that she had so many puppies; there were of different colours, all so cute.

I think my message is getting too long. so I am gonna stop now. I am so glad I found you guys.

nomofan on June 07, 1998

很抱歉我不能打英文，所以請你們忍耐。

讀了這個網站的文章之後，我深受感動。先介紹自己一下，我的名字是易丹尼，26歲，現在住在加拿大。我在台北出生，十三歲的時候離開台灣，但是別擔心，我完全可以使用中文。

我想要對你們所努力過的一切致意，也要謝謝你們把這個網頁放在網路上。我是偶然進入這裡的，黃歡先生的網頁在那邊有個按鈕，下面寫者「喜歡狗狗的人，按這裡。」從我一出生我就是一個愛狗狗的人，於是我按下去了。

讀了這些故事，我幾乎哭了出來。因為我從小時候就開始收養家附近的流浪狗。我會把狗狗、貓貓、小鳥、蝙蝠、老鼠、魚…任何在家附近找得到的東西帶回家。當然我不能養這麼多動物，所以我媽會趁我早上去學校的時候把牠們放走。每次放學回家總為了動物不見了而哭泣，但我不放棄，我一次又一次地帶更多動物回家，通常是小動物。

有一次我帶了一隻懷孕的狗回家，我媽像往常一樣把門打開把她放走。但是我從學校回來後我在一個垃圾堆附近發現她，她開始在垃圾堆附近住下來。我叫她亮亮，（當然是用中文，那時我還不會講半個英文字）因為她是黃色的而且很會跑。雖然我媽不讓她待在房子裡，但她仍然成為我的寵物了，我們在一起渡過很快樂的時光。每次她一看到我，總是顯得非常快樂，我那時候以為她很高興我帶食物給她，現在我知道她其實也很高興看見我。

過了不久，她的腹部變得相當大了，我知道她快生了，但不知道什麼時候。有天下課，我在老地方找不到她，後來我在一個隱蔽的地方找到了她，她生了九隻小狗狗!!我很驚喜她生了這麼多不同顏色又可愛的小狗狗。

我想我的留言好像太長了，我現在得停下來，很高興遇見你們!!

黃歡 on June 07, 1998

: I thought she was happy for the food I was bringing her,
: but now I know that she was also happy to see me.

我從有些流浪狗及主人不聞不問的家狗身上，有過類似的經驗：

即使不餵食牠，而只是陪陪牠，拍拍牠，牠們也可感受我們的關懷，而回報以真情。

dudu on June 08, 1998 at 11:05:31:

What a coincidence! I've been thinking the same thing, too. But the fact is that I'm way too stupid to become a vet. I'll graduate from this university real soon, so what I can do in the future is to go back to Taiwan and do some voluntary work for the institutions that accomodate homeless dogs. I do hope u can fulfill ur dream and become a vet in the future. I think u have the most important quality of becoming a good vet: a truly caring heart for the animals.

Daniel on June 08, 1998 at 09:08:57:

hi dudu,

thank you for your warm welcome. now I wish that I could go back to taiwan, to do something about the problem with stray dogs and cats. I looking into going back to school, to study veterianry medicine. If I do succed, I hope to go back to taiwan to pratice.

wish me luck.