While many people have voiced their outrage at China’s annual dog meat festival in Yulin, one woman has dedicated her life to actually doing something about it.
66-year-old Yang Xiaoyun is a woman on a mission. And that mission is to save as many dogs from slaughter as possible.
The widow, who runs the Common Home For All dog shelter in Tianjin, northeast China, was married to a government employee and had a career as a literature teacher, but gave up her comfortable, respectable life to save the lives of countless animals.