Want China Times, CNA 2015-02-08
A dog owner has been fined for allowing his dog to stand on top of his small van during a drive in suburban Taipei, despite the family's insistence that the dog rode there voluntarily, police said Saturday.
The dog, which aroused controversy, jumps on the top of a vehicle in New Taipei city, Feb. 7. (Photo/ Hsieh Wen-hsuan) |
A dog owner has been fined for allowing his dog to stand on top of his small van during a drive in suburban Taipei, despite the family's insistence that the dog rode there voluntarily, police said Saturday.
The Tamsui
Police Station said it took action after seeing a photo posted on the Internet
of a car with four dogs in the vehicle — including one that stood on top of it.
The police
said they learned about the situation when carrying out their regular
monitoring of the internet, and then located the driver, surnamed Su, and his
wife, surnamed Cheng, who denied that they forced the dog to stand on the top
of the van.
Cheng said
the dog was used to doing that, but she admitted that animal protection
officials had warned them about the practice before.
She said
that the dog has always held its footing when taking its position on top of the
vehicle and that she and her husband drive slowly to get the dog accustomed to
the traffic flow.
Su was
condemned by many netizens as being "abusive" after the picture was
posted online.
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