"Dog lover Hesti Sutrisno, from Bogor Regency, West Java, runs a shelter for stray animals, which is home to around 200 dogs and 50 cats. Footage captured on Sunday shows her shelter, which Sutrisno affectionately calls the 'greenhouse', bustling with dogs under Hesti’s care. "It started because I felt sorry for them, I couldn't bear to see them suffer. They are animals that Allah created. I mean, they were eating food that perhaps wasn’t even suitable for animals. That’s where the feeling of compassion started," says Sutrisno. She says she has long been committed to taking in stray animals. "I took care of stray cats. Then in 2018, I started rescuing street dogs, and I’ve been doing it ever since," recalls Sutrisno. The shelter owner incurs significant daily expenses in caring for her animals, providing them chicken and around 100 kilograms of rice each day. "If you ask how much I feed them each day — two sacks of rice, with each sack weighing 50kg — that’s 100kg in total. And for the chickens, if we don’t economise it, 50kg would only last a day because there are so many of them," explains Sutrisno. To keep her shelter running, Hesti Sutrisno funds the care of her animals through crackers sales and donations, carefully managing expenses to make sure the food never runs out. "Especially when the rice runs out, I need to sell more. From those sales, I can buy rice, chicken heads, and other food for the animals." Indonesia is home to a large number of stray dogs and cats, as a result of the country's large population, especially in rural areas where there is a relatively low level of veterinary care. Progress is being made, including bans on dog and cat meat trade and the introduction of Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) programmes by some local authorities."