Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 28, 2023 19:04:34 GMT
A family in a remote part of China adopted what it thought was a puppy, only to discover two years later that it was actually a bear.
Su Yun, who lives in a village outside the city of Kunming in Yunnan Province, bought what she was led to believe was a Tibetan mastiff puppy while on vacation back in 2016, according to reports.
Tibetan mastiffs are huge dogs with a thick black-and-brown coat. Males can weigh as much as 150 pounds.
The owner said she was immediately struck by her pooch’s insatiable appetite, which had him wolfing down a box of fruits and two buckets of noodles daily.
Two years on, Su’s pet was tipping the scales at 250 pounds and getting ever bigger.
“The more he grew, the more like a bear he looked,” Su told Chinese media.
The owner’s growing suspicion about her pet’s true nature did not sit well with her because she admitted that she is “a little scared of bears.”
Su reached out to the authorities, who quickly identified her supposed dog as an Asiatic black bear, which is classified as a vulnerable species.
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Su Yun, who lives in a village outside the city of Kunming in Yunnan Province, bought what she was led to believe was a Tibetan mastiff puppy while on vacation back in 2016, according to reports.
Tibetan mastiffs are huge dogs with a thick black-and-brown coat. Males can weigh as much as 150 pounds.
The owner said she was immediately struck by her pooch’s insatiable appetite, which had him wolfing down a box of fruits and two buckets of noodles daily.
Two years on, Su’s pet was tipping the scales at 250 pounds and getting ever bigger.
“The more he grew, the more like a bear he looked,” Su told Chinese media.
The owner’s growing suspicion about her pet’s true nature did not sit well with her because she admitted that she is “a little scared of bears.”
Su reached out to the authorities, who quickly identified her supposed dog as an Asiatic black bear, which is classified as a vulnerable species.
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