Female Volunteers Rescue 1000 Dogs Destined To Be Killed For Chinese Dog Eating Festival. (Photos)

Two British female volunteers nicknamed the 'Angels of Yulin' helped to save 1,000 dogs from certain slaughter at China’s sickening Yulin Dog Meat Festival. The team a team won a last-minute stay of execution for the dogs and whisked them away to the safety of animal shelters -in a daring rescue operation.

The animal lovers wept as they were allowed into the slaughter house where the dead and the dying lay inside rusty cages alongside terrified dogs – many of them pets stolen off the streets.

Dogs were destined to be killed so they could be cooked and eaten at the annual 10 day Yulin Festival, in China....