In June 2017, help finally arrived for Camo and the 54 other dogs at the meat farm. The owner had reached out to Humane Society International (HSI) and asked for the group’s help in shutting down his business.

“The elderly farmer, who had been farming dogs for 20 years, had had a change of heart and couldn’t bring himself to send his dogs to slaughter any more,” Wendy Higgins, director of international media for HSI, said in a statement last year. “He couldn’t bring himself to eat dog meat anymore either.”