It ’s not every daylight you see a 110 - kilo ( 250 - hammering ) hot dog walking on hind legs . For one family in southwest China , however , that ’s exactly what their Tibetan mastiff started doing , sparking some serious questions .
While on vacation in 2016 , Su Yun brought what she believed to be a Tibetan mastiff to her home in a Chinese hamlet in Yunnan province , China . The puppy had a voracious appetite eat up a “ box of fruits and two buckets of dome every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , ” reportsThe Independent .
That ’s when Yun began questioning whether her hot dog was , in fact , aTibetan mastiff , a strain that typically reaches around 82 kilo ( 180 pounds ) and abide 71 centimeters ( 28 inch ) tall .
“ The more he grew , the more like a bear he looked , ” Yun toldChinese Media . “ I am a little scared of bears . ”
When Yun phone official , she regain out her dearie was n’t a dog , or any member of the canine tooth mob for that matter . In fact , it was an endangered Asian fateful bear . Footage by officials shows the bear standing almost a metre ( 3 feet ) tall with some very bear - like features . Even though the bear was kept as a household pet with the Yun family , staff were reportedly so intimidated by the creature they sedate it before transporting it .
Ursus thibetanusis an queer coinage and can fetch thousands if sold on the black market . Asiatic black bears have been used for millennia in Asian traditional medicine and cuisine , and weight for weight canbe more worthful than amber . A chemical substance found in the bear ’s bile ( ursodeoxycholic acid ) , a center produced in the gallbladder , is used to process a range of ailments such as liver disease in Taiwanese traditional medicament .
woefully , bear gall agriculture is legal in China , and often necessitate continue bears in inhumane condition and distressingly extracting gall while the bears are awake . There ’s some hope for the bears though , as more and more peopleurge the Chinese regime to ban the savage practice .
peculiarly enough , this is n’t the first time a bear laddie has been mistaken for a puppy . InMarch , a man from the same province raised a bear after finding it in the forest believing it to be a isolated detent . Last week , a cleaning lady thought she bought a Japanese Spitz pup only to later expose it was afox .
The bear has now been taken into care at the Yunnan Wildlife Rescue Center . functionary say they believe the bear is healthy .
[ H / T : The Independent ]
