Dear MEL Topic Readers,
‘Panda Dogs’: Chinese zoo goes viral for luring visitors with painted
pups
The Chow Chow is a spitz-type dog breed originally from Northern China.
The breed has a very dense double coat, and its fur is very thick. The standard
colors for Chow Chows are black, blue, red, cream, and cinnamon. Image
The giant panda has black fur on its ears, limbs, shoulders, and around
the eyes, and the rest of its coat is white. So, a Chow Chow dog won’t look
like a giant panda cub. But when fluffy Cow Cow dogs are painted in black and
white, they look like giant panda cubs. That is what a zoo in southern
Guangdong province in China did to lure zoo visitors. The sign shows that the
dogs are Panda Dogs. A video shot by a visitor went viral on Douyin, China’s
version of TikTok. The Panda Dogs are drawing much more attention than when
they were just Chow Chow dogs. Whether they like the new coat color or increased
attention is unknown, but the zoo certainly enjoys having more visitors only by
painting the dogs. But isn’t it against animal welfare to paint dogs to entertain
zoo visitors?
Read the article and see the photo and video of Panda Dogs in a zoo in
China.
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