Others then decided to get in on the zoo’s joke, with one user sharing a picture of their cat, jokingly ... two Chow Chow dogs black and white to make them look like panda bears in May 2024.

A Chinese zoo has sparked outraged after it painted dogs orange and white and presented them as tigers after it was ridiculed for pulling a similar stunt to make pooches look like panda bears.

A zoologist in Paris wrote up the official description of Ailuropoda melanoleuca (literally, “cat foot, black and white ... they brought home the first panda shot by white men for the ...