SINGAPORE: A zoo in China has come beneath fireplace from outraged Internet customers after it admitted to dyeing a pair of fluffy chow chows black and white to make them resemble large pandas.
Some Internet customers have additionally expressed shock and amusement on the zoo’s “panda canine.”
The zoo in Shanwei City, in China’s southern Guangdong province, is the most recent in an extended line of Chinese zoos which have acquired public criticism and mock over time for trying to move off home animals as wild animals.
For a number of weeks, some Internet customers had raised suspicions that the animals on show had been actual pandas, since they appeared and behaved like canine, as in some movies they had been seen wagging their tails and panting.
After cautious inspection, a zoo consultant acknowledged that the “pandas” had been truly dyed black and white chow chows.
“As you possibly can see from our title, we’re ‘The Paradise of Weird Animals and Cute Pets,’” the consultant advised a TV crew from the Sichuan Observer, a neighborhood Chinese information company, on September 16.
“These are chow chow canine painted like pandas and they’re a part of our specialties,” the consultant stated.
This admission additional infected the Chinese web, with many intervening within the matter and sharing movies and images taken with the animals.
“The panting and barking gave them away,” one blogger commented on a Weibo publish that was shared greater than 300 occasions. Other Weibo customers shared their experiences of visiting the zoo and criticized the administration’s determination to deceive guests. “So when do animal welfare legal guidelines come into play,” one other consumer wrote.
The dialog continued on Douyin, the place jokes and humorous movies had been shared.
In a Douyin video shared by a consumer named Lin Yuyi who visited the zoo on Friday (September 20), she was seen excitedly petting one of many chow chows by means of the bars of their enclosure. The canine’ lengthy wagging tails had been seen in her video.
