Early end to dark days of animal cruelty?

While Lu Di and her followers help rescue animals, other groups are trying to promote animal welfare on the Internet.

The China Animals Protection Vanguard, founded last August, comprises a group of young people aged 25 to 30, who run a website to raise public awareness of animal welfare.

They celebrated when the draft of China's first legislation on animal welfare, the China Animal Protection Law, was released on Sept 18, 2009.