A pup's best friend: Yang Xiaoyun holds a rescue dog at her shelter in Tianjin, China. The dog is one of 500 that Yang saved from dog-meat dealers at Yulin's annual dog meat festival last month.
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Yang Xiaoyun keeps more than 1,000 dogs in her shelters, most of whom had been abandoned or for sale by dog meat traders.
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Yang Xiaoyun injects medicine into one of her rescue pups at her shelter in Tianjin.
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Rescue dogs play happily at Yang Xiaoyun's shelter in Tianjin, China.
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Yang Xiaoyun next to the dogs she purchased from dog meat vendors, to rescue them from the local dog meat festival in Yulin. The festival marks the summer solstice, and the arrival of the hottest days of the year.
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A man carrying butchered dogs drives past a pet dog at a dog meat market ahead of a local dog meat festival in Yulin.
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Butchered dogs are displayed at a vendor's stall at a dog meat market ahead of a local dog meat festival in Yulin, China.
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