Five elderly women in China have dedicated their lives to the care of nearly 1,300 stray dogs. The enterprising women run their very own custom dog asylum, where they feed the lucky canines 400 kg of tasty dog-food every single day.
The shelter, located in China’s central Shaanxi Province, was established in 2009 by 60-year-old Wang Yanfang. She said that she felt sympathetic towards strays that were taken away by regulators, so she decided to apply for permission to open the asylum, solely supported by donations.
Since then she has gained the support of four other women, and together they wake up at 4am each morning just to prepare food for the dogs. They are so dedicated to the cause that they even chose to forgo the extravagant display of fireworks on New Year’s Eve, and instead spent the day with the abandoned dogs.
I'm sure if they had a website or address and put the word out on Weibo (China's answer to Facebook) (or did I read somewhere that the Chinese Government shut it down?) they'd amass quite a few donations to their cause and a worthy one it is, too.
Don't suppose the ladies gave the mutts names. What'd'ya think? Maybe numbers? Actually dogs don't have names. They don't need them. But us humans have to classify everything, don't we?
See ya, eh!
Bob
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