[Taipei Times]

The Council of Agriculture (COA) yesterday said it would seek the to
monitor and improve the management of public shelters following a
protest by animal rights activists over the weekend seeking better
animal shelters.

Following more than an hour of discussions with representatives from
animal rights groups, the parties reached an agreement on most of the
requests.

"Many of the advocates' demands were indeed supposed to have been done
by the council," said Hsu Kuai-sheng (許桂森), director of the council's
husbandry division, before he thanked them for highlighting current
problems.

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