A Chinese zoo has sparked outraged after it painted dogs orange and black and presented them as tigers after it was ridiculed for pulling a similar stunt to make pooches look like panda bears
A video shared on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, shows a Chow Chow puppy covered in black and orange stripes as it runs around and plays in its enclosure in the Qinhu Bay Forest Animal Kingdom zoo in Taizhou.
Social media users were not fooled however, as they quickly noticed that the animal captured on camera was not a big cat.
‘Isn’t that just a dog?’, one social media user wrote.
Another joked: ‘They definitely don’t dare to bathe their dogs for fear of discolouration.’
After being contacted by local media, the Qinhu Bay Forest Animal Kingdom confessed that the animal was a native ‘Chow Chow dyed into a ‘tiger dog’, not a tiger.’
Separate images showed two dogs which are native to China, which are supposed to be white, sporting the animal print.
The zoo claimed that dying the dogs had just been ‘a gimmick’, although they said that all the dogs had been dyed professionally and there was no risk to their health.
This is the latest deceitful move from the zoo, after it reportedly painted puppies black and white so that they looked like pandas.
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