After a fuss around barking pandas, other Chinese zoo turns two dogs into tigers

In the Chinese zoo Qinhu Bay Forest Animal Kingdom, two chowchows with orange and black paint were recently transformed into ‘tigers’. Visitors to the park soon realized that they were not real tigers. The painted dogs soon appeared on social media. (Read more under the post)

After local media had contacted the zoo, it was admitted that it was indeed dogs. According to the zoo, the stunt was a joke and the dogs were professionally painted, without the risk of health damage.

In September something similar happened in the Zoo of Shanwei. The Chinese zoo was not assigned real giant pandas, so employees went to work with white and black paint to transform chowchows into ‘panda hoods’.

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