Zoogoers appalled to see dogs painted to look like tigers in zoo (video)
A zoo in China is under scrutiny after allegedly painting two dogs black and orange to look like tigers.
Video footage shared on the ByteDance-owned app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, shows Chow Chows enclosed in wooden pens and painted bright orange with black stripes.
Apart from the colour, the dogs at the Qinhu Bay Forest Animal Kingdom look nothing like tigers and viewers online were not so easily deceived.
“Isn’t that just a dog?” one person commented.
“They definitely don’t dare to bathe their dogs for fear of discolouration,” someone else wrote.
“A big tiger with a dog-like temper!” another said.
The zoo, situated in Taizhou, later admitted to nearby news sources that the creatures were colored as “a contrivance,” yet guaranteed that there were no wellbeing dangers to the canines.
“It was a local Chow colored into a ‘tiger canine’, not a tiger,” the zoo made sense of, per The Mirror.
Last year, a similar zoo supposedly colored canines’ fur to imitate that of pandas, in any event, molding their puff to seem to be the bamboo-eating bears.
At the point when inquired as to why, the zoo answered, “There are no panda bears at the zoo and we needed to do this accordingly.”
While they confronted kickback, the agent made sense of that “individuals additionally color their hair,” adding that “regular color can be utilized on canines assuming they have long fur.”
The Shanwei Zoo, additionally situated in China, painted canines to seem as though pandas also last year, provoking guests to request discounts.
Watch the video underneath.
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