Even the Chinese have been outraged by a zoo which passed off a dog as a lion, with the ruse only being exposed when a visitor questioned why their “lion” was barking.
The Henan province zoo was found to have been keeping a Tibetan mastiff in a lion cage, labelled as an “African lion.”
The “dog-lion” was outed when a mother took her child to see the animals, and was surprised to hear the lion barking.
The zoo’s explanation was that an employee’s dog temporarily replaced the lion when it was “sent away” to a breeding centre, because of unspecified “safety concerns.”
Once scrutiny was attracted it was also revealed that the zoo housed a white fox which it claimed was a leopard, and another dog which was labelled as a wolf.
This is unfortunately not the first time such concerns have been raised about China quality animals:
Fuckin Chinese… maybe they think they’re 3″ dick will grow if they eat dogs
No seriously, after the pollution, the elevator decapitations, the toys with more lead than a #2 pencil, the lack of animal cruelty laws, the animal cruelty itself, the school buses, and so on, does this really surprise anyone at all? And although I’m sure poverty can push people to extremes this just doesn’t surprise me.
Well a dog is actually a wolf (canis lupus), technically, so… go China, I guess…
i am better off alone. thanks.
Makes sense. The Chinese try and pass themselves off as people.
Who cares about liondog, look at this pandadog.