Gus Kenworthy Rescued a Puppy at the Olympics Again, This Time From a Dog Meat Farm
CelebritiesDirt BagIn 2014, skier and silver medalist Gun Kenworthy, with his ex Robin Macdonald, shined a light on Sochi’s mass dog extermination by bringing five strays home and adopting two (who, by the way, are doing great.) He has now adopted a puppy from a dog meat farm, which sounds as hellish as, well, “dog meat farm”:
“I’m honestly feeling heartbroken,” Kenworthy said.
The farm is situated less than 100 yards of a busy road, about a 45-minute drive from downtown Seoul. Puppies and their mothers are living inside a narrow planthouse, surrounded by rusty pipes, grimy ceramic pots and old mattresses. Outside, many dogs pulled hard on their chains, creating muddy semicircles in the snow beneath their feet. A dozen or so wood and wire cages held between one and four dogs each. In the back of one crate, a dog was licking a furless newborn puppy that did not appear to be alive.
The Humane Society estimates there are about 17,000 dog meat farms in South Korea.