PACK Taiwan is a famous dog shelter in Sanzhi, New Taipei City. We began research on PACK Taiwan and started correspondence a few months before we finally went to PACK Taiwan in Sanzhi on May 28th. After we arrived, the manager of the shelter welcomed us, and one of the staff members introduced the shelter to us. After this brief introduction by the staff, we learned that they used to have numerous kinds of animals, and they decided to only focus on dogs after years. Our journey to understand more about stray dogs began at this time…

We first went to an area that contains dogs that have health issues and dogs that are mentally disabled. The first thing I noticed when walking into the shelter space was that the environment was so much cleaner than I thought, and we can tell that all dogs are well-protected and look happy. Although there were numerous dogs in the shelter, each dog is still well-protected and the staff takes good care of them. What’s more, the dogs that are severely disabled even have their own individual rooms, something that impressed all of us very much. 

    Sequentially, we went to the academy of the shelter, an academy meant for the dogs being prepared for adoption. After we went there, the dog trainer “Winnie” 

came to welcome us. He brought a few dogs to the “school” and told us that these dogs are able to understand people’s instructions. One of the dogs that made an impression on us is a dog named “Sparkle.” Sparkle is super cute and loves to play with humans. And although she may have had a bad life, after being taken care of by Pack, she became happy and healthy again. The trainer showed us that she can do many tricks; for example, you can tell her to sit down, lie down, and shake hands. This also impressed me.

In the aftermath of this experience, we learned the difficulty of caring for so many dogs at once. As well as learning the importance of trying our best, we also learned that things that seemed impossible will definitely come true if we put our efforts into them. It is indeed difficult to maintain such a large shelter, but they did their best and followed their passion. This is how a successful care organization is built. (by Jim)

For the second website, we chose blue as our theme color. Firstly, it’s because it’s the color of our logo. Secondly, we think the color brings a more modern feel. We also changed the arrangement of all the buttons and pictures. The formatting we chose allowed us to go from broad to narrow fields of dog caring information, another and better way to organize and show our project.