During the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, Guangxi, the topic of dog meat once again aroused controversy. Since the Yulin Dog Meat Festival became popular, the festival has been regarded as a thorn in the flesh by dog ​​lovers. Dog lovers spend money to save dogs and plan to buy them out.

Dog lovers spend money to save dogs, but the original charity act has now changed. Dog dealers learned that dog lovers spent money to save dogs, so they raised the price, and the price of dog meat increased.

Guangxi Yulin Dog Meat Festival

Recently, 65-year-old Tianjin dog lover Yang Xiaoyun has been very busy. In the past few days, dog dealers in Yulin have been looking for Yang Xiaoyun. It turned out that last year she bought a dog locally for a high price of 150,000 yuan. I heard that she will go to Yulin this year, and the dog dealer discussed cooperation in advance and "has prepared a lot of dogs, waiting for you to buy them."

In addition to buying and rescuing dogs, Yang Xiaoyun also realized that hanging banners and preventing the eating of dog meat on the streets would not work. "I want to convey the concept of dog love through gentle methods such as dog breeding bases and vegetarian restaurants."

Since 1995, Yang Xiaoyun’s journey of saving dogs has gone further and further: in order to raise dogs, she sold her son’s wedding house; in order to save dogs, she spent 150,000 yuan to buy dogs in Yulin last year. Today, she has raised more than 3,000 dogs.

"As long as I live, I will take care of them."

When I first saw Yang Xiaoyun, she had dirty clothes, messy hair, and her body smelled from time to time. No one would have thought that she came from a scholarly family and graduated from college.

In 1995, Yang Xiaoyun’s husband passed away. After experiencing the pain of losing her husband, she initially wanted to help poor college students. Unexpectedly, some of the recipient students didn't even say hello when they met her on the street.

By chance, she adopted a stray dog ​​and developed a deep affection for him. "It knows how to repay kindness." I remember that in 2011, when he learned that hundreds of dogs in a detention center in Jixian County lacked careful care, Yang Xiaoyun drove there for several hours from Tianjin just to feed them. At first, the staff refused to let in, so Yang Xiaoyun, who was in his sixties, climbed up the two-meter-high wall, crawled through the barbed wire, and took risks again and again.

When she stood tremblingly on the wall more than two meters high, the police at the detention center were moved and agreed to feed her three times a week. Later, all the dogs in the quarantine center were allowed to be left under her care.

Nowadays, every time they see Yang Xiaoyun coming home, they will swarm her, and some will even cling to her like children, never leaving her.

Yang Xiaoyun feels more and more that she can't live without these lives: "These dogs can't live without me. As long as I live for one day, I have to take care of them for one day."

Yang Xiaoyun has thought about it. If one day she really can't move, her son will become the successor, provide care for these dogs until they die, and save more dogs.