New Chinese Hobby: Grooming Dogs to Look Like Other Animals
Saturday, June 12, 2010
That’s not a tiger in the picture, but a dog dyed to look like a tiger. It’s an example of what The Daily Mail reports is a growing hobby in China: dying and trimming dogs’ hair so that they look like different animals.
Recent figures show money spent on pets across the nation has seen nearly a 500 per cent increase between 1999 and 2008 – but, arguably, at the cost of their pets’ dignity.
Quite what the animals might think about it is another matter.
It has been rumored that a man in one of the outlying provinces is preparing his Bull Mastiff to look like a rhinoceros.
And at the link, keeshounds decked out as panda bears.
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