The expression “so cute it looks like a bear” has never made so much sense to dog lovers.
In China, a family was surprised to discover, two years after the adoption, that the “doggie” that they thought was a tibetan mastiff was actually a bear . The case happened in 2018, in Yunan province, but it recently went viral again.
According to the American website New York Post, Su Yun, who lives in a village on the outskirts of the city of Kunming, bought the animal during the holidays in 2016. However, as time went by, the family began to suspect the size that the pet was acquiring.
“The more it grew, the more it looked like a bear,” Su told Chinese state TV channel CGTN.
Two years after adoption, the animal already weighed more than 100 kg and kept getting bigger. A The owner also said that she was impressed by the insatiable appetite of her dog, who devoured a box of fruit and two buckets of pasta daily.
The perplexity with the different way of the animal turned to concern when Su noticed that the animal could walk on two legs.
The family then realized they had made a mistake and took the pet to the authorities, who identified it as a Asian black bear a species classified as vulnerable and threatened.
Tibetan Mastiffs x Asiatic Black Bear
Don’t get confused! You tibetan mastiffs they are huge dogs with a thick black and brown coat. The breed is one of the rarest in the world and is rarely found outside of China. Males can weigh almost 70 kg.
already the Asian black bear It is a medium-sized, sharp-clawed, black-furred bear with a white or cream V-shaped marking on its chest.
Source: CNN Brasil
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