The Paper's reporter Cheng Xiaojun
Recently, Jean-Claude van Damme, a veteran Hollywood action star, showed his tender side of the iron man off-screen, helping a Chihuahua dog born only three months ago, so that he escaped the doom of being euthanized.
Shange Winton took to his social media to call on netizens to vote to save Raya.
The puppy, named Raya, was sold in September by a Bulgarian seller in Alexey Iversen, Norway , where many locals buy pets from Bulgaria due to the high prices of Nordic pets, with prices ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. However, when the new owner took it to a veterinary clinic in Oslo to get a certificate, the attentive veterinarian discovered that Raya's rabies vaccine documents were falsified. The veterinarian immediately informed the authorities, and Raya was taken away and became a prisoner of the Norwegian Fehdad agency. After some investigation, the latter concluded that Raya's full set of "dog passports" had been forged, that his entry into Norway had violated local law, and that he must be euthanized on 20 October.
This upset the dog owner, Mr. Iverson, who had been in his house for a short time but had become the family's new darling. But the rules are the rules, and seeing that Raya's death date is approaching, Mr. Iverson has to post online to ask for public attention and pressure the Norwegian government. "Fake passports are a real problem, and I admit that I am also responsible for negligence, but the puppy is innocent and the euthanasia of it is obviously an excessive sentence." However, Mr. Iverson is just a civilian, a man of few words, and the petition campaign launched online has not been able to obtain enough signatures in a short period of time. Seeing that Raya's death date is getting closer and closer, at the critical moment, the screen good Han Shange Winton from Belgium has struck. He saw Mr. Everson's post online and immediately launched a webcast on October 18.
Shange Winton took his pet on a live call to save Raya.
"I sincerely beg you to change your decision," the on-screen muscular male star, who has always been brave, hugged one of his own Chihuahua puppies tightly, and said in a serious tone, "We can't kill this little Chihuahua." This will bring bad luck to the future. This will bring bad luck to the fight against COVID-19. This brings bad luck to everything. He also promised that he would pay for all the costs needed to release Raya, and he also called on tens of millions of global fans who follow his account to help sign an online petition asking the Norwegian authorities to change their decision.
Relying on Shange Winton's huge influence on social media, Mr. Iverson's petition campaign won more than 200,000 responses from netizens around the world, and finally successfully persuaded the Norwegian FEHD to allow the puppy Raya to be re-sent back to Bulgaria for adoption by the new owner, and Mr. Iverson also posted a special thank to the action star, saying that his kindness not only saved a small life, but also injected goodwill and hope into the cloudy situation.
Sixty-year-old Shange Winton has continued to show his skills in films from time to time in recent years.
Shange Winton was born in October 1960 in Brussels, Belgium, and recently celebrated his sixtieth birthday. He began to learn martial arts at the age of 15, joined the film circle after retiring, and became a Western action movie star with stallone, Schwarzenegger and others in the 1990s, starring in classic action movies such as "Reinventing warriors", "Ultimate Target", "Time and Space SWAT", and in recent years, he has appeared with these people in the movie "Daredevil 2".
Shange Winton's help is no coincidence, in fact, he has always been a well-known dog lover in show business, donating countless money to animal protection organizations over the years, and has interrupted his performance work to help stray dogs. Shange Yunton once said that when he sleeps at night, he often hugs the puppy at home and feels its heartbeat, which can help him fall asleep quickly and dream well.
Editor-in-charge: Cheng Yu
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