Shanhua Animal Shelter Introduction
In order to solve the problem of stray animals as well as to respect life and protect animals, the former Tainan County Government founded the Shanhua Animal Shelter in August 2000 to dedicate to animal protection and stray dogs management. Its goal is to treat the animals in a civilized and humane way before the end of their life. In parallel, the shelter also provides stray dog adoption and education on pet keeping and animal protection.
Shanhua Animal Shelter occupies about 54,000 square feet of land. There are three main regions: administration office, animal shelter and ecological education park.
- Administration office: It includes adoption room, office, briefing room, volunteer offices, treatment center, and claim room.
- Animal shelter: It includes heated room for puppies, quarantined room, temporarily isolation area, evaluation area, animal food preparation area, and change room.
- Ecological education park: It consists of a butterfly ecological park, Jurassic landscape trail, garden and dragonfly breeding and restoration area, where schools and families are welcomed to visit for recreation.
Tainan City Shanhua Animal Shelter not only focuses on providing shelter for animals to solve the stray animal issue, but also adds various educational facilities to provide a place for schools and families for recreational purposes to function as one of the featured recreational parks in Tainan.
| May 1 st , 1999 | Started contract of three-stage construction plan for the shelter. |
| June 30th, 1999 | Signed a contract for 1st stage construction of Tainan Halfway Home Dogs Rescue |
| November 6th, 1999 | Performed the contract and completed acceptance November 19th, 1999. |
| June 30th, 1999 | Signed a contract for 2nd stage construction of Tainan Halfway Home Dogs Rescue. |
| January 7th, 2000 | Performed the contract |
| January 26th, 2000 | Completed acceptance.. |
| July 1st, 2000 | Assigned for stray dogs related duties. |
| April 25th, 2000 | Signed a contract for 3rd stage construction of Tainan Halfway Home Dogs Rescue. |
| June 21st, 2000 | Performed the contract |
| July 7th, 2000 | Completed acceptance. |
| April 1st, 2000 | Started operation of Shelter. |
| July 1st, 2000 | Grand opening. |
| September 27th, 2000 | Signed a contract for the construction of office and briefing room. |
| November 1st, 2000 | Performed the contract. |
| November 17th, 2000 | Completed acceptance. |
| December 1st, 2003 | Began projects of shelter expansion. DRI: Huang Jia-jing. |
| December 30th, 2003 | Signed a contract for the construction of fences at Tainan Halfway Home Dogs Rescue |
| February 10th, 2004 | Performed the contract |
| March 1st, 2004 | Completed acceptance. |
Facilities
- Administration office is used to conduct adoption related business.
- Quarantined room is used for temporary isolation for dog evaluation.
- Adoption area is used for the management and care for puppies, cats and dogs.
- Wild bird restoration area.
- Sprayed disinfection system is placed to conduct daily environmental disinfection.
- Basic operating room.