Intentions

Cat Independent Club of Volunteers is an association that is organised by a group of people, who would like to help out the stray cats and the ideal of this association is to show their respect to individual life. The proposer, Mr. Rack (link to the facebook) is a factory owner and who loves cat in Shou-Lin. He has a chance to start saving the homeless animals and then he participates in humanitarian project. A group of people join him and he organised "Cat Independent Club of Volunteers in HouTong" in June 2012, and his main job is the depot (No 357, Cai-Liao Road, Rri-Fang Town, New Taipei City) which is provided by Taiwan Railway employees, Mr. Rack is in charged to send over all the supply from himself and volunteers to HouTong.They hope there will be more people could adopt homeless cat with love and action, so they promote the ideas about how to treat animals and the concept of "adoption instead of purchase"; furthermore, they would like to provide the opportunities for cats to find their homes by executing the instruction of Halfway House of homeless cats with public power. HouTong was nominated one of six World Best Cat Spot in 2013, but many owners not only abandon cats in Cat Village in HouTong, but also different kind of animals, such as dogs, rabbits and chicken, it seems like HouTong beomes the best and the most convenience place for abandonment. Poeple are angry about it and it's so hard to understand why the owners do it. The problem we talked about during the interview, abandonment beomes as a trend, although it brings a lot of problems and issues to the local citizens, people are still willing to help these animals because the reason they are abandoned in purposed as they are sick. It's so difficult to solute the abandonment problem even they set spot surveillance camera due to the lack of patrols.