Traveling across countries is fun. Traveling to other countries to visit loved ones is amazing. But traveling to another country just to save an animal is just pure love.
In June 2017, a British mental worker and a university known as Rafih Sahin traveled all the way from London to South Korea to save a dog from being eaten. But on getting there, one of the dog’s legs had already been chopped off by a butcher.
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Before her trip to South Korea, she had contacted a lot of animal care agencies in the UK and in South Korea. Still, they kept telling her that the dog already got a new home. She wasn’t comfortable with that, and she wanted to see for herself
The 33year old due to her curiosity took out of her time to leave for South Korea after reading an article about the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China. The primary reason behind her curiosity and traveling to South Korea through the CARE’s website, which is an organization in Korea that is dedicated to rescuing dogs from the dog meat trade. It wasn’t easy because she had to pass through a lot and go through a series of events just to get to the dog’s location
She got to the location of the dog in South Korea, she found the dog wandering around with his back leg cut off. She immediately processed the adoption of the dog. The dog’s name is Jindol.
The dog was placed on a six-month proper health treatment with vaccines, health checkups, and inspections. The charity couldn’t have believed that someone would want to adopt a disabled dog. But it didn’t bother Rafih.
Jindol was really filthy, thin, scared of people, and sick at first, but after being taken care of, the dog now looks happy and healthy. After the sixth month of treatment, Rafi took him to her house in January 2018, and they have been family ever since.
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Rafi stated that she didn’t know for sure how the dog’s leg was removed, but some Koreans from the charity said Koreans eat dogs, so they had to cut his leg off not to escape. This made her take it upon herself to take Jindol out of the country and back to London.
Rafi shared her story, saying, “my life was thrown away 10 years because I developed epilepsy and diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome,” which has made her suffer a lot of joint pains. So she understood what the dog was going through and saw a need for him to get better.
