On the hills of the town of Yong-e An, a flat is set in the mountains covered by green trees. Far from it, there is smoke on the premises of the black roof of the grey wall and nothing like the usual farmhouse — until a stranger steps into the territory.
The dog barks, and it rings on the hill, and the Chinese field dogs, Biggs, Koki, Teddy, Gold hair, Samoys look towards the strangers at the entrance, either turning their heads in the cages or running down the chair, or rising up, putting their paws on the fences and staring at us.
This is the home of more than 5,000 dogs, and we, the “frequent visitors”, have just broken into this strange “country”. The former merchant, Chen Luang Li, gave up her business in the middle of the day and spent 25 years building this home for stray pets, which may be their last resort after being abandoned by the city ' s owners.
A stray dog in the Love House animal rescue center.
Today, when nature is transformed in the heavens and the earth, there is rarely a place where people feel strange and impulsive as if they were not the owners of this place. And by Chengdu's big city, the Love House Animal Support Center makes everyone who walks in here feel that way.
The dogs were lying down in the chair, by the cage, under the shade, and when Chen had come to see Lucky Lotus, they covered up. It is clear to you that Chen Luang-Lian belongs here, and she comes to us as if she knew what we were trying to do, saying, “Now that the dogs are too many to shut down, they have to release some of them to move freely in the yard or in the kitchen”.
"I see. Why don't you show us first?" In the barking of dogs, we increase the volume of communication, but we have to be careful at all times, because of the possibility of stepping on the tail of a dog in the middle of the road or running into the belly of a dog.
"I've been a manager in the factory before, and you have to ask me how easy it is to care for thousands of dogs and thousands of people, and I'll tell you it's too easy." According to Chen, “humans can be bound by regulations, but animals can only be understood with tolerance”.
What's wrong with saving 5,000 stray dogs? The difficulty is reflected in daily eating and drinking. Chen Luang Liang first took us to the kitchen, two of which were nearly 1.5 metres in diameter, and half a man-deep pan took most of the kitchen. "We've been looking for these two pots for a long time, and they're the only ones that are economically viable." In the first place, Chen had been cooking for dogs with more than a dozen electric cookers, but had yet to be prepared for a second time, and then the cooker had been introduced, but the electricity was too expensive to find the two large pots of coal.
A pot to cook for a stray animal.
The dog's excrement was also a matter of care, and before taking us on the tour, Chen had spent only two hours cleaning the excrement, and she could not help but sigh when she found it on the tour: “No way, now there are too many dogs.”
In fact, if Chan Lucky's life had not changed, she would have been a successful businessman and might now have been able to achieve the freedom of wealth and enjoy her well-being at home. It all started 25 years ago when she met a dog.
♪ In the heart ♪
"Buy qualifying goods to the hawk Pool 101!" This is a phrase that has been circulated among many traders in Chengdu in the 1990s, and “pollpool 101” is the name of several wholesalers previously run by Chen Lotus. In 1996, Chen Ying Liang has had four front doors in the Lava and Grass Streets, with more than 20 shopkeepers.
In 1994, Chen had bought over 200 square metres of penetrating housing in the central garden, but no one thought that the luxury housing had become a “move dog adoption centre”, a “home of love animal rescue centre”.
One day in 1996, Chen had to sign a contract. By the street not far from home, a kimba dog was found crumbling around the wall, and it was the first time that she had touched a stray dog, “Nustance, despair, begging ... that you could not forget”. She was going to turn and leave, and she stayed in that look. She ran back, the stray dog swayed his tail and took her to the pet hospital.
The kimbadog was named stupid, and after more than a decade, he died in bed. An hour before the end of his life, he was lying on the ground, moving step by step to Chen's side, stomping his head to her hand and crying about it.
Since then, Chen has taken her home whenever she saw a stray cat or dog. Soon, five were adopted at home. As soon as life began, it was impossible to stop, with 80 stray cats and dogs in 2000 and a crowded home, which began to smell bad, even though they were kept cleaning and cleaning.
The husband was a good customer, “Although he used to have customers almost every day, when the number of adopted cats and dogs increased, no one came!” The husband started complaining.
"Well, I'll move out if you don't like!" She was already able to afford to house all these stray cats and dogs in a 300 m2 courtyard in Twin Clan.
She'll have to take care of the dogs. In Chengdu's seven-faced, five-carriage Chen Lotus thought, "In view of my financial situation at the time, adopt these dozens of dogs without any burden!" But she didn't expect her own secret mind to lead her to “no return”.
An increasing number of citizens are becoming aware of Chen's love story through the Internet and local media. When there was a stray animal, they sent it to her, and if she did not take it, she would be in danger of vagrancy, ill-treatment and death, and she would have taken it and put it in place. As a result, the number quickly increased to 100, 200 ... to a thousand, the size of the former small yard could not be satisfied, and she spent 5 million on a deserted hill, flat-planting, building houses and building houses.
Home for Love Animal Support Centre
Thousands of mouths, rice, chicken skeletons, livers, all of which are converted into money, have to eat $150,000 a month. The money that had been saved in business had been lost in one day and Chen had sold seven doors and five cars. "This road is too difficult for a man who I used not to cry for, who has been crying for the animals since the beginning, saving one, dying, sending another to cry. "
In public opinion,
In May 2021, the House of Love, which is not calm, is located in a remote mountain and has repeatedly been placed at the centre of public opinion for the purpose of rescue operations.
This time, it was due to the emerging “Pet Blind Box” event. On 3 May 2021, the family's lovers found in Chengdu that about 160 cats and dogs had been packed, and the courier manifests showed that most of the goods were transported in the form of hybrids and blue cats, but that most of the boxes were actually common urchins and cats; on 5 May, the Cheng Metropolitan Post Administration intervened in the handling of the matter; On the evening of 8 May, the Chinese express delivery to the Tonto Tsichuan administration centre had been fined $30,000; and China Tsichuan administration had not been centrally managed and had been fined $50,000.
"There's been a lot of press interviews about the blind boxes of pets these past two days. It's the first time I've known this at my age." According to Chen, her main target was a cat and dog who had been sent to the slaughterhouse, but did not realize that she, who had fought for more than 20 years to save her pets, was facing a new and more painful form, “more cruel than killing the slaughterhouse, putting cats and dogs in sealed boxes, and abusing the pets.” According to Chan,
Chen remembers the scene when she first rescued the pets from the slaughterhouse, where she was chased to the slaughterhouse by her own boss, and then bought the cats and dogs at her own expense, and was found on one occasion following the dog dealer's base, chased by the other with an axe, “Bringing me to the youth, I was running fast at the time.” According to Chan,
Today, 72-year-old Chan Lucky has been saved 157 blind people. A box of kittens and pups can only sleep two or three hours a day on average, and she continues to receive a variety of strange calls: Asked if the cat could be saved by being trapped, people cried for the house of love to take the dog she could not keep.
"I get hundreds of calls every day, and the office says I'm more busy than their hotline." She said that every time she received a call, she felt burdened more, “sometimes she could not refuse”.
"My staff said to me that now there are not 5,000 cats and dogs combined, but I've always been 5,000, and I don't want to feel too stressed." According to Chan, she has been looking for a suitable successor for several years, but very few have been able to do so and so far has not been found.
Volunteers are checking the dog.
It is understood that starting in 2015, the General Association of Commune Charities and the House of Love began working together. As a public advocate for the family, the family has been guided and regulated throughout its implementation.
In 2017, the General Association of Municipal Charities set up a family-specific project team to reach out to the family and, in particular, to conduct a third-party assessment of the financial implementation of the family and to assist the family in making timely disclosure to the public of the assistance provided by the family. As a result, more members of the public are informed about the family and more trust is placed in its implementation.
From 2017 to 2018, Love House launched an online fund-raising campaign totalling over $2.7 million, all of which was completed within the expected time frame and the financial performance was made available to the public. In 2018, the former single-sourced cat-and-dog food project, together with the Family of Love, was hatched into a complex project in the Chengdu region on the care and care of stray cats and dogs, while managing their rescue and breeding. In 2020, at the initiative of Cheng City Charitable Association, the House of Love was awarded the National 100 Power Network Project at the 2020 China Connected Public Interest Network Summit.