Although dogs abandoned to roam the streets are just one aspect of how people in Taiwan treat dogs, Westerners are given to generalize as regards Chinese behavior toward animals. After all, don't the Chinese, who put rhino horns and tiger bones into medicine, think that eating dog meat invigorates the body during the chill months of winter?
街頭上被丟棄的流浪犬，雖然只是台灣社會與寵物互動的一個面向，但中國人對待動物的態度，西方常容易以偏概全﹘﹘以犀角、虎骨入藥的中國人，不就以香肉冬令進補嗎？