Online Photography Competition
Animals Asia Foundation launched World Animal Day celebrations in seven cities of China: Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Beijing, Dalian, Xi’an and Hong Kong. 120 photos showing love between companion animals and their owners were exhibited on a road show across the country.
This year is also the 20th anniversary for ‘Dr Dog’, animal-therapy programme of Animals Asia Foundation. We launched our ‘Dr Dog Walking Day’ in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, where our China Bear Rescue Center is located, with 130 dogs and about 200 animal-lovers joining the event.
With great support from all volunteers and volunteer dogs, our Chengdu ‘Dr Dog’ programme enters its eighth year. 9 Dr Dogs and 2 volunteers received awards this year for length of service in the city. Games and happy hour came in the afternoon-all the dogs and owners walked around the lake and left their paw-prints in six locations. A special meaning for finishing the whole journey was that the owner and the dog would happily live together for their whole life.
Dr Badi, Shenzhen’s “Veteran Dr Dog”, joined the programme in 2008. Badi’s owner Mr. Zhang said he was proud of his golden retriever Every time when carrying out his Dr Dog mission, Badi seems to be more happy and confident. The bunny dance by 12 children from Shenzhen Nanshan Kindergarten brought a highlight to the ceremony. Their lovely faces melted everyone’s hearts.
Twenty of our gorgeous Dr Dogs attended our World Animal Day ceremony in Guangzhou. Ninety special needs children (all of them are the recipients of our programme) and their parents joined the event (300 in total). Nine local winners of our “Sharing Love with Them” World Animal Day online photo contest took part in the award ceremony.
Ms.Chou and her cat Sisi’s picture attracted a lot of support on the internet. Sisi was a stray cat before she was adopted by Ms.Chou. In the photo, Sisi was closely held by the lady who was pregnant-just 10 days before Ms Chou’s baby arrived in the world. At the ceremony, Chou told the mother-to-be that having pets in the family brings more happiness. Her baby is now living with 9 cats and 1 dog who are his ‘brothers and sisters.’ The 120 photos of love with animals will be exhibited in road shows throughout November.
Animals Asia Foundation co-operated with Tencet Charity Foundation and Tencet Microblog (Chinese Twitter) to launch the online World Animal Day Photo Contest nationwide. Karen Mok, a famous Chinese celebrity, will be acting as an Ambassador for our World Animal Day events to help us promote our activities. Irene and Daniella, World Animal Day Ambassadors in China.
- Organised by: Irene Feng and Zhang Dan, World Animal Day Ambassadors