A resident of the Chinese city of Chongqing has settled more than 1,300 dogs at home and continues to take new ones, reports The Straits Times.
Twenty years ago, Wen Junhong rescued a Pekingese dog, abandoned by its owners, whom she named Wenjing, which means “gentle and quiet” in Chinese. Since then, the Chinese woman has not been able to stop.
She was worried that homeless animals face a huge number of dangers: they get into accidents, into the hands of catchers selling dog meat, die of hunger. “It is important to look after these dogs. We must all respect life, because the Earth is not only for people, but also for animals,” she stressed.
In addition to dogs, the woman has 100 cats, four horses, rabbits and birds. She confesses that some consider her a psychopath.
Junhong starts her day at four in the morning: she cleans up and takes out 20-30 buckets of dog excrement, and then prepares more than 500 kilograms of rice, meat and vegetables for animals. She burns waste in the backyard of her house, which is why a column of smoke constantly rises into the sky. Several dogs run freely around the building, and the tethered Pit Bull Terrier growls and barks at strangers.
Each room of the Chinese woman’s two-story house is filled with cells stacked on top of each other. Her house is surrounded by fences and locked gates, and is the last on the street, as neighbors’ complaints repeatedly forced her to move.
A woman finds money to keep animals through the sale of her apartment and loans up to 60 thousand yuan (675 thousand rubles), as well as pensions and savings left over from her career as an environmentalist.
Earlier it was reported that the Spanish animal rights activists have achieved the eviction of a resident of Valencia from the apartment, where he lived with 110 cats. The story began when a man put one unsterilized pair of animals in his 100 square meter apartment, which have since begun to produce offspring.