My dog's name is Mickey. He is truly an awesome dog, I think perhaps the coolest dog ever.
Mickey was always a smart dog. He learned how to understand our words, so if we said the word 'walk', he would get really excited because he thought he was going for a walk. We started to speak out the letters of the word, like this 'W - A - L - K', instead of saying the word, but he learned how to spell the word too.
When Mickey got older, he didn't like to walk very much, so we would encourage him to go outside by giving him a cookie every time he came in from out to the bathroom. He caught on to this pattern pretty fast.
He would bark to go outside, and when we let him out he would just stand on the porch. Then he would bark to come back in after 20 seconds and he would walk directly to the cookie cupboard and stand there and bark for a cookie.
Before I came to Taiwan, I heard that people don't have dogs, but this is not true at all. I see a lot of people every day walking their dogs and even carrying them in a little basket.
Since I've lived in Taiwan, I've seen some dogs that do things that Mickey never did. They ride motorbikes! Every morning when I stand outside and wait for the bus, a man opens the door to his apartment and his dog runs out and jumps on his motorbike. The first time I saw it, I thought it was so amazing.
Since that first day, I have seen lots of dogs riding motorbikes with their owners. I don't see it everyday, but I would say that it is not uncommon.
There is one problem though, and I have to bring this important problem to light. This could become the next big issue in Taiwanese politics. We MUST consider the safety of these dogs. It is imperative that such smart dogs MUST be protected by the law.
There is ONLY ONE SOLUTION. The doggie helmet.
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