Chinese zoo paints dogs orange and black to look like tigers in latest ridiculous stunt after dying other hounds to look like pandas

A Chinese zoo has sparked outraged aft it painted dogs orangish and achromatic and presented them arsenic tigers aft it was ridiculed for pulling a akin stunt to marque pooches look similar panda bears. 

A video shared connected Douyin, the Chinese mentation of TikTok, shows a Chow Chow puppy covered successful achromatic and orangish stripes arsenic it runs astir and plays successful its enclosure successful the Qinhu Bay Forest Animal Kingdom zoo successful Taizhou.

Social media users were not fooled however, arsenic they rapidly noticed that the carnal captured connected camera was not a large cat. 

'Isn't that conscionable a dog?', 1 societal media idiosyncratic wrote. 

Another joked: 'They decidedly don't situation to bathe their dogs for fearfulness of discolouration.'

After being contacted by section media, the Qinhu Bay Forest Animal Kingdom confessed that the carnal was a autochthonal 'Chow Chow dyed into a 'tiger dog', not a tiger.' 

Separate images showed 2 dogs which are autochthonal to China, which are expected to beryllium white, sporting the carnal print. 

The zoo claimed that dying the dogs had conscionable been 'a gimmick', though they said that each the dogs had been dyed professionally and determination was nary hazard to their health. 

This is the latest deceitful determination from the zoo, aft it reportedly painted puppies achromatic and achromatic truthful that they looked similar pandas. 

The zoo is not the lone installation successful China to get caught up successful fake carnal scandal. 

Back successful September, visitors demanded their wealth backmost from a zoo successful Guangdong aft they were misled into reasoning that the pandas connected show were successful information pandas. 

After relentless quizzing by section media, the zoo was forced to admit that they had dyed 2 Chow Chows.

Taizhou Zoo successful Jiangsu Province besides sparked fury successful May erstwhile it excessively allegedly dyed tiny Chow Chow dogs to look similar pandas.

These dogs had their fur trimmed abbreviated earlier achromatic and achromatic dye was added to their look and body.

The attraction was rapidly slammed by locals who accused the zoo of carnal cruelty

The zoo defended showing the 'panda dogs' arsenic they don't person immoderate of the existent animals for visitors to see.

A zoo spokesperson said astatine the time: 'A batch of radical are coming to sojourn them and you request to queue up.

'There are nary panda bears astatine the zoo and we wanted to bash this arsenic a result.

'You tin spot them from betwixt 8.30am and 5pm.'

The spokesperson besides deed backmost astatine the cruelty accusations, saying: 'People besides dye their hair. Natural dye tin beryllium utilized connected dogs if they person agelong fur.'