Hao Keyu, a 48-year-old woman from the northern China port municipality of Tianjin, has devoted the last two decades of her life to saving stray dogs./NetEase Photo

More than 10,000 stray dogs facing starvation and sickness have been rescued by Hao Keyu and around 1,100 still live at her stray dog shelter now./NetEase Photo

To give better treatment to the sick ones, she had a systematic study of veterinary in 2002./NetEase Photo

Photos showing piles of pet drugs stored in her refrigerator. To provide food and care for the dogs, she had to sell three of her properties in the past 20 years./NetEase Photo

Hearing her story, dog lovers rush to pick their favorite pets from her shelter, but Hao Keyu has rather strict screening procedures for adopters. She regards the dogs as her children, hoping they can be a member of the new family./NetEase Photo

Perhaps it may be quite hard to image that 20 years before, she was a beauty of some renown in her region./NetEase Photo