Guest guest Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Duo Zirong is an ethnic Daur woman who cares for stray cats. The following photos/news covers the period June 2005 to March 2006 when she was in Shanghai. She was forced to move again (perhaps to Hangzhou) and there is no further news of her available. --------------------------- Duo Zirong And The Cats [Poster's note: Some of the Album-online photos use the phrase " Duo Zirong breeding cats " but what they mean is that she is raising them/caring for them. Not breeding them. The cats are neutered.] -Album-online Images: Fotográfico 15/06/2005 Datong Village, Fengxian District, Shanghai http://www.album-online.com/prensa/verreportaje.php?idrep=5684 ......................... -China Foto Press Images: A CAT IS FOR LIFE, NOT ONLY FOR CHRISTMAS China Foto Press October 24, 2005 Shanghai A Cat is for Life, not only for Christmas In the developing china, pets become a lifestyle, just like economists said, " All wealthy like golf. " But pets are not always lovely, some of them bite people, some of them are dirty; and person need pay tax for their pets in big city. These are why so many people abandon their pets. Vagabond cats and dogs procreate more and more offspring that make a vicious spiral. Vagabond animals groan under peoples, their livability is very low. Nowadays people earnestly appeal human rights, however how many people will notice animal's living right? The following is the people touched me: There are at least 217 vagabond dogs and 126 cats are lucky, because their foster [mother] Lu Di, the retired Chinese professor of Renmin University of China, who is the chairman of China Small Animal Protect Association and a seventy years old [woman]. Zhuang Yunhua fosters over thirty cats in Beijing; and her work affects the surround. 47 years old lady Zhang Wenqin takes care of seventy nine cats. In this year 2005, I know surprised a [vagrant] cats family in Shanghai; I find the world is still warm. There are over two hundreds members in the big family, include four human, Grandfather Liu Bao, Grandmother Huo Puyang, father Liu Junluo and mother Duo Zirong. Liu Bao is the son of martyr Liu Bojian. His wife Huo Puyang is a retired researcher. Liu Junluo is their only son, an economist. Duo Zirong studied in Beijing University of ; now she takes care of cats in full time. Their house located at the end of No.1 line underground, near a sand road. You can see many bells on the wire netting, doors and windows, all cats and dogs will welcome the guest. Duo Zirong, 30 years old, has brightness of mellow female, damsel's face and children's character. His husband named her " Zirong Ketty " and she calls him " Luoluo " Liu Junluo's original subject was engineering, now the economist is the main support of the family. Duo Zirong was a doctor; now she is a full time mum of cats. These two intellectual persons put their heart, sense and allowance into the two hundreds cats. Family Liu's life encircles cats; men make money and women take care of their children. Talking about the beginning with cats, the old grandmamma said, " Junluo is a child full of heart " . When he was a little boy, he tried to save a small cat in the rubbish. Then he fell [in] love with his girl friend Zirong, they wanted to help [vagrant] animals. Grandmother asked them must be responsibility for them three score years and ten! From 1996, they helped more and more poor animals and removed three times in the last nine years. Duo Zirong often cured ailing and handicapped cats. Once upon a time she found a box with seven cats, which only two were living; one of them had the bleeding eyes. She could not believe that some body made their fun on the animals' life. She never works hardier than now, she said: " cats need not only food but also love. " she tries her best to make a warm family for these cats with grandmother. Each new member termly has vaccination, lustrates inside and outside parasite and swabs down. All of them have emdical certificate and almost boys are neutes. Duo Zirong is a professional veterinarian and feeder now. Cats' breakfasts are muscle, lunches are fish and the dinners are well-fed food made by Duo Zirong. She also notices the environmental cleanliness. In July 2002, News Guangdong first recorded their story, which made the surprise to their neighbors. Because they did not know there were so many cats in the house. We can know how busy their life is with the following timetable: 05:00 am. Duo Zirong wake up and clear cats litter. 07:00 am. Duo Zirong awaken grandmother 08:00 am. Liu Junluo goes out to buy the food. 09:00 am. Duo Zirong cooks cats' breakfasts. Liu Junluo goes to work. 10:00 am. Duo Zirong clean the room. 12:00 am. Lunch 14:00 pm. Duo Zirong nurse the ailing cats. 16:00 pm. Dinner 17:00 pm. Duo Zirong nurse the ailing cats. 18:00 pm. Duo Zirong prepares twenty five Anti Mosquitoes in the house. 19:00 pm. Duo Zirong cooked special food for ailing cats. 20:00 pm. Change the Anti Mosquitoes. 24:00 pm. Change the Anti Mosquitoes. 03:00 am. Change the Anti Mosquitoes. " A lot of kindhearted people help us. " Duo Zirong remembered; an old man of Datong seed towel gourd near their fencing as the homemade vegetable. After the report of Shanghai TV station, more and more people presented their warm with materia medica, foods and the other material. For families' support, for friends' help, for cats' need and love, Duo Zirong will not give up for ever. http://en.chinafotopress.com/index/onegroup?gid=788486 [Photos on the page] ......................... -Getty Images: February 14, 2006 SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 14: Chinese woman Duo Zirong shows an adopted stray cat to a neighbor on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai, China. Duo Zirong, a Daur ethnic minority group woman from Inner Mongolia and reported as the " Cat Woman " , has housed about 300 cats with her Shanghainese husband Liu Junluo and mother-in-law. Duo started to keep stray cats since she saved the first cat nine years ago, when she and her husband were rich businessmen. Now they became impoverished because of adopting the stray cats. They live in a shabby house with hundreds of cats in the Datong Village of Fengxian District on the fringe of Shanghai. The expense on cats takes over 20,000 yuan (about USD 2,481) each month. The whole family makes ends meet by the income of the husband's fuel futures business. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884333 & cdi\ =0 Chinese woman Duo Zirong looks outside a window among adopted stray cats at her home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884332 & cdi\ =0 Chinese woman Duo Zirong feeds adopted cats at her home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884331 & cdi\ =0 Chinese woman Duo Zirong plays with adopted cats at her home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884330 & cdi\ =0 Chinese woman Duo Zirong talks with an adopted stray cat at her home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56883889 & cdi\ =0 Chinese woman Duo Zirong feeds stray cats at her home February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56885799 & cdi\ =0 Chinese woman Duo Zirong talks with an adopted stray cat at her home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884344 & cdi\ =0 Animal lover Duo Zirong's mother-in-law Huo Puyang, who was beaten to nearly blindness when she prevented people from killing cats, answers a phone at home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884339 & cdi\ =0 Liu Junluo, husband of animal lover Duo Zirong feeds her soup when she only eats steamed bread as supper at home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884336 & cdi\ =0 Animal lover Duo Zirong looks on as her husband views futures exchanges through internet at home on February 14, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884337 & cdi\ =0 SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18: Chinese woman Duo Zirong ® and her husband pose for pictures with a dog among adopted cats at home on February 18, 2006 in Shanghai, China. Duo Zirong, a Daur ethnic minority group woman from Inner Mongolia and reported as the " Cat Woman " , has housed about 300 cats with her Shanghainese husband Liu Junluo and mother-in-law. Duo started to keep stray cats since she saved the first cat nine years ago, when she and her husband were rich businessmen. Now they became impoverished because of adopting the stray cats. They live in a shabby house with hundreds of cats in the Datong Village of Fengxian District on the fringe of Shanghai. The expense on cats takes over 20,000 yuan (about USD 2,481) each month. The whole family makes ends meet by the income of the husband's fuel futures business. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884342 & cdi\ =0 Adopted stray cats rest in animal lover Duo Zirong's home on February 18, 2006 in Shanghai. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=56884338 & cdi\ =0 ......................... Neighbours force cat woman to turn tail 02/16/2006 A Shanghai woman who kept more than 200 stray cats has been pressured into moving as neighbours complained her feline army disturbed them. Duo Zirong, who started taking in cats nine years ago, recently decided to flee to the quiet suburbs of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province. There she said she hopes to lead a quiet life with her furry companions. Source: China Daily http://english.zjol.com.cn/05english/system/2006/02/16/006477932.shtml .......................... 300 strays rescued by Shanghai woman soon to be homeless again Zhang Kun Shanghai_Delta 2006-3-10 A woman who adopted nearly 300 cats is being forced to move out of her residence but so far, no potential landlord has been willing to accept her. Duo Zirong, 36, has been adopting stray animals, most of them cats, together with the family of her boyfriend Liu Junluo, for the past 10 years. Duo moved several times during the past few years, finally settling down in a two-storey country house in suburban Shanghai's Fengxian District. However a neighbour complained about the noise and smell of the cats. Last December, Duo and Liu had a fight with the neighbour, and Liu's mother was slightly injured. The landlord told Duo that he would not renew the lease on the house when it expired at the end of February. After some bargaining, the landlord finally let them stay until April 10. With the local government's intervention, Duo agreed to move into an empty factory building in Liaoyuan Farm. The local authorities also promised to help her turn the place into a cat shelter. But the farm refused to let the cats in, for fear of potential " troubles, " according to an unidentified source. " I don't know about the future. I don't think about it, " Duo told China Daily Shanghai & Delta. " We have been through this several times. There will be a way out in the end. " Duo picked up her first stray cat from Xinhua Road in 1996. Then she started to feed stray cats. " Then I went into their lives, deeper and deeper. " When she found sick, pregnant, injured cats or small kittens, she took them home. Liu's parents, who lived on Xinhua Road, would bring back cats as well. Duo had each of her adopted cats neutered or spayed, but the cat population grew rapidly until now it numbers nearly 300. " I wish all cats could play freely out there, with plenty to eat and nobody hurting them, " Duo said. " But once they go out, they are hurt and even killed. " Duo believes that all the danger comes from human beings. " Few cats die from traffic accidents. Basically it's all human cruelty. " Even if there was a law against such conduct, Duo doesn't think it would stop the problem soon. For the time being, her greatest wish is to have her boyfriend make lots of money in the stock and futures markets, so they can afford a new place for the cats. " I would love to co-operate with any organization, " Duo said. When she became widely known as the woman who takes in stray cats, several people approached her, offering to send her more cats. " I can't take any more, " she said. " I would have taken more if we could move to a bigger place. " Duo said her life now is " totally dark, scared every day, worse than death. " " I used to think, it was the responsibility of the whole society to care for these animals. How come I am the one to shoulders it alone? " Duo tried to explain her reason for doing this. " I would pick up earthworms crawling on the road after rain and place them back in safe places. I want everything to be safe and comfortable, " she said. " My youth is mostly gone. Life goes on so quickly. My boyfriend once asked me, 'What else can you do besides keeping cats?' I gave up all my hobbies and my studies in Chinese medicine and psychology. " According to Sun Xiang, a reporter for the Oriental Morning Post, Duo and her boyfriend were once well-off. " She could have lived a better life, but now, she and her boyfriend live like poor peasants, " Sun said. http://www.shanghai-star.com.cn/Shanghai_Delta/Shanghai_Delta_news.asp?lv1=1 & lv2\ =4 & newsid=374 & viewsid=374 & views=17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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