At age 29, Wang Yan has earned and lost more money than most people
would in a lifetime. He used to be a millionaire businessman with a
successful steel factory in Changchun, in China’s Jilin province. But
now he doesn’t have a penny to his name, having spent his entire fortune
rescuing dogs from being butchered!According to
Oddity Central:
Yan
was compelled to help dogs after he first witnessed their plight in
2012. He was searching for his own missing pet dog when he saw someone
who suggested he try searching at a butcher’s shop. His dog wasn’t
there, but he hung around for a week and saw how the other dogs were
being brutally killed. Deeply disturbed, he vowed to buy every single
dog from the butcher, just so he could save them from a horrible death.
Yan
kept buying dogs until he had no place to house them anymore. So he
evacuated his factory and renamed the building ‘Changchun Animal Rescue
Base’. He’s saved thousands of dogs so far, many of which have been
adopted by dog lovers. “There are 215 dogs at the base now, mostly came
from the slaughterhouses, saved by volunteers and brought here,” he
said. “We used to house over 1,000 dogs, many have been adopted later.”
Yan
poured so much money into the rescue operation that his fortune
eventually evaporated, and he’s now run into debt. But he has no
regrets, his greatest worry for now is to keep the dogs warm during the
harsh winter ahead. He is in need of warmer shelter and more food
supplies for the dogs. Without proper heating, the animals couldn’t
possible survive the cold in the northeastern province of Jilin.
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