Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Woman in China Pays to Rescue Dogs from Annual ‘Meat Festival’

Yang Xiaoyun gets an "I will love you forever" kiss from one of her many "friends."
Yang Xiaoyun gets an “I will love you forever” kiss from one of her many “friends.”

*A woman after my own heart, is what many of us animal-lovers are thinking after reading the headline to this story.

Yang Xiaoyun, 65, may not strike you as a wealthy woman; but that didn’t seem to hold her back from paying a sizable amount of money to rescue 100 dogs from being eaten during an annual dog meat festival, according to a media statement on Sunday.

The animal-loving Xiaoyun paid about 7,000 yuan (US$1,100) to save the dogs in the southern city of Yulin on Saturday, web portal Netease reported.

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