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Help save Taiwan's strays
Your donation funds emergency rescue, veterinary treatment and a permanent, safe home for dogs and cats caught in snares, left with serious illness, or in danger on the street.
DonateStrayKind in numbers
157animals taken in so far this year
473animals in our care right now
3rescue sanctuaries in Taiwan
Figures from our shelter records, 2026-10-23.
The hidden threat in Taiwan's mountains
Illegal wire snares are set across Taiwan's hillsides and farmland. They are cheap, legal to buy and impossible to aim. Whatever walks into one—a stray dog, a cat, a muntjac—pulls the wire tighter trying to get free.
Taiwan's Ministry of Agriculture counted 141,584 free-roaming dogs in its 2024 national survey. 140 of the dogs in our care are trap or snare amputees.
We rescue them, we treat them, and we care for them for life.
How a rescue actually worksDalia—before and after
Dalia came to us with advanced skin disease and two paws already lost to snares. Drag the slider. The second photograph was taken in her adoptive home.
Your donation can transform a life
Every gift helps us rescue, heal and care for Taiwan's most vulnerable strays.
DonateStrayKind (formerly Animal Care Trust)—UK Charity No. 1163828. Registered with the Fundraising Regulator.
Meet your future family member
18 animals are ready for a home right now. Here are three of them.
Their stories
Ringa
Picked up as a puppy alongside his mother and littermates. All of them came through it. Ringa is still with us and still the loudest.
Mel
Left paralysed after an attack. She rebuilt her confidence over months and now runs the room she lives in.
Ocean
Lost three paws to snares. He gets around the sanctuary on what is left, and he does it at speed.
Where your money goes
What your donations do
Every charity tells you that all of your gift reaches the animals. It never quite does, for anyone, and we would rather show you the split than claim otherwise.
StrayKind UK exists to fund the rescue and sanctuary work in Taiwan, so this is a breakdown of that operation—the thing your donation actually pays for.
Figures cover January to June 2026, converted from New Taiwan dollars at a fixed rate of NT$40 to the pound and rounded down.
71% goes directly on the animals
- 24.5% Veterinary care and medicines
- 31% Sanctuary staff
- 14.5% Running the three sanctuaries
- 1% Rescue vehicles and fuel
29% runs the charity and raises the next donation
- 18.2% Advertising that brings donors in
- 5.7% Office costs, professional fees, bank charges
- 5.1% Admin and fundraising staff
The largest single cost outside animal care is advertising.
Over those six months it cost around £177,000 and brought in around
£978,000 of donations—about £5.50 raised for every
£1 spent. That is why we spend it, and it is why we show it to you rather than
bury it.
Regular giving
Give monthly
A one-off gift pays a bill that has already arrived. A monthly gift lets us say yes to an animal before we know what the treatment will cost—which is the only way anything caught in a snare gets reached in time.
- ✓ Cancel any time, in two clicks, no questions asked
- ✓ A short update each month: real animals, named, with outcomes
- ✓ We are applying for Gift Aid now. Once HMRC approves it, a UK taxpayer's gift is worth 25% more at no cost to you
What a monthly gift covers
Based on what sanctuary care costs us for one animal, across all 474 in our care. Veterinary treatment and rescue callouts are on top of this.
- £10helps cover a rescued dog or cat's food and shelter for three days
- £25pays for a course of antibiotics for a rescued dog or cat
- £50covers a fortnight of sanctuary care for one animal
- £100keeps a rescued dog or cat fed, housed and cared for a full month