Why Empathy Alone Can't Save Stray Animals | Xue Yang | TEDxShuguangLu

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Traditional animal rescue often relies on heartbreaking stories to trigger our sympathy. But what if this approach is actually causing "compassion fatigue"? Former internet professional Xue Yang decided to stop selling pity and started treating charity as a product design challenge. By engineering a low-barrier way for people to interact with strays, she uncovered a surprising truth: this new model isn't just rescuing animals—it’s healing humans, too. Armed with an elite education from the Ivy League and Peking University, Xue Yang applied her rigorous systemic thinking to revolutionize animal rescue in China. She founded "Give You a Dog," a platform that transforms adoption into a standardized, full-cycle journey—from temporary fostering to meaningful offline connections. Over the past six years, her innovative, design-driven approach has successfully matched over 1,000 marginalized strays and retired working dogs with loving homes. Xue’s story proves that when we apply rigorous desig

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