China’s pet lovers are losing patience with official failure to ban animal cruelty

Xiaoyang has to think for a minute to figure out how many dogs he is fostering. “Forty or 50 — something like that,” he eventually says.

The stray rescue and re-homing operation he runs on a voluntary basis from his yard on the outskirts of Shenzhen, in southern China, requires a dawn-to-dusk schedule of walking, feeding and cleaning.