Chinese zoo starts ‘panda dog’ enclosure with dyed chow chows

According to local Chinese reports, the animals are chow chows that have been dyed to look like giant pandas. - PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM WEIBO

BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): Two “panda dogs” have been delighting and perplexing visitors of a zoo in China since a dedicated enclosure opened to the public on May 1.

Videos of the animals posted online confused netizens, some of whom mistook them for real pandas, with others asking whether “panda dog” was a real breed.