Posted on 04/02/2021 12:22:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A handout photo: Visitors to a zoo in Sichuan province, China, were stunned to find a dog in a harness waiting to greet them on the other side of the lion enclosure.
Visitors to a zoo in southwestern China were left shocked and confused when they saw a golden retriever in a cage intended to accommodate an African lion.
In a video clip that circulated widely on social media this week, a man only identified by his surname Tang, took his child to visit Yuanjiashan Zoo in Xichang, Sichuan, on Saturday but was startled More from AsiaOne
“At first, we thought we had gone to the wrong place. But after walking around the cage, we realised it is where the lion should be housed,” Tang said in the video.
A handout photo: The cage sign advertising an African lion in the cage. PHOTO: South China Morning Post “Is that an African lion? Is it because it hasn’t grown up yet? It looks familiar to me,” he joked.
A worker of the zoo told Tang that the cage had housed a lion in the past, however, the animal had been moved to another location, he said.
“We are adjusting the animals’ accommodations, with the lion’s sign not taken down [from the cage] yet,” said the worker in the video.
However, Tang said he did not accept this. He accused the zoo of selling tickets promoting lions. He also said he found no lions anywhere else in the zoo.
“The money for the ticket is a small deal. What matters [to] me more is that I don’t know how to explain the current situation to my kid,” said Tang.
A handout photo: The placid looking golden retriever seen in the video wearing a harness in the lion enclosure. PHOTO: South China Morning Post It’s not the first time a mainland zoo has tried to substitute animals with other species at their facilities.
Earlier this month, Xiangwushan Zoo of Xianning, Hubei, was exposed for putting a Rottweiler in a wolf’s cage. The zoo’s management said a wolf had lived there before it died because of old age, the Liaoshen Evening News reported.
Two years ago, Jiufengshan Forest Zoo in Wuhan was criticised for deceiving visitors by placing a dog in a wolf’s enclosure.
The zoo claimed there was a wolf there, although not often seen by visitors. The dog was supposedly in the yard so that the wolf wouldn’t get lonely.
“People only saw the dog as the wolf likes to sleep during day time and the dog is more active than the wolf,” the zoo told Jiangxi TV.
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This is the most awesome thing I’ve read today.
They made a mistake and displayed the lion’s meal as the lion.
Looks like a lion to me. Let me get my glasses and look again.
They were lyin’.............................
Weird. I did a search. Darn.
They couldn't find a Chow dog?................
More dogs in China should try to pass themselves off as lions. It might increase their longevity.
They import exotic animals for only one reason—sex aphrodisiacs! Thus, the must provide fakes! Like everything else they do.
We shaved our golden retriever because it wanted to identify as a golden lab.
The chicoms try to pass off a lot of fake things as genuine.
: )
After thinking about this, once the Chinks take over this country in support of the rats, those of us who dis them online will be “dealt with”! Oh well.
Glad to see it again! It made me laugh all afternoon the last time it was posted! I texted it to several friends who loved it as well.
It happens to me sometimes as well.
It’s that a Tibetan mastiff?
Giving proof positive of the old saying that Lions are the dogs of the cat family.
Chow.......................
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