Thanks to generous donations from In Defense of Animals supporters from across the country and around the world, seven dogs have escaped the macabre deaths that awaited them in the bloody dog meat markets of South Korea. Without your support for our intervention in collaboration with dedicated Korean activists, all seven would have been brutally killed and consumed for meat and folk-medicine ‘health-tonics’ consumed in misguided attempts to increase virility and cope with the summer heat.

All seven rescued dogs are Jindos, an ancient and historic breed of dog unique to South Korea. In 1963, the government of South Korea designated the Jindo as a national treasure and even enacted special protections on their behalf. In spite of their cultural significance, millions of these intelligent and loyal dogs are butchered each year for their flesh as part of the ongoing global blight that is the Asian dog-meat trade.

These lucky seven are now steadfast ambassadors, four-legged advocates for millions less fortunate others who die each year. Their new lives with new loving and caring families here in the United States are already helping raise awareness of this inhumane practice and keeping this important issue on the international stage.

If you have not already done so, please consider making a generous contribution today. With your continued support we will take this fight, on behalf of this most noble and devoted companion, to the legislature and to the streets. Even now, more actions, more responses, and more rescues are being planned. Stand with us as the tide begins to turn.

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