Chinese zoo can’t get real pandas, so it invents Panda Dogs –

The Taizhou Zoo in China’s Jiangsu Province has come up with a creative way to keep “pandas” in the zoo without necessarily having the big bears on hand. Panda Dogs were created as an innovative way for attendees to see some kind of panda-like creatures.

Don’t worry, no mad science was done to get pandas and dogs to interbreed. Instead, as we can see in video footage from Newsflare, the creatures are fluffy with wagging tails and a distinctive bark. They have black markings on their bodies and around their eyes, but otherwise they are just dogs.

These panda dogs are simply Chow Chows spray-painted to look more like pandas. Although their true identity was hard to hide, people still come from all over to see these painted cuddly canines. There has been criticism of the choice to dye the dogs’ hair, but the zoo believes it is the same as people dyeing their own hair.

Would you travel to see Panda Dogs?