Desperate to reclaim his farmland from the League of Wild Monkeys, an Indian farmer decides to paint his dog to look like a tiger in the hope that it will frighten the monkeys. Srikant Gowda, a farmer from the Shivamoga district in the state of Karnataka, India, said, to make international headlines after reports of using hair dyes to draw distinctive tiger lines on his field guard dog.
The dog’s original hair color is reddish in origin, so all he had to do was add black stripes and a bit of white to give the dog the look of a tiger. This is not because Goda loved tigers, but because he was hoping his masked dog would help drive away the monkeys that destroy his crops.
The Indian farmer told reporters that he got the idea four years ago when he visited the Uttara Canada region and met a farmer there who used a fake tiger doll to scare monkeys. It sounded silly, but he tried himself and was surprised by the fact that it really worked. However, he was convinced that the tiger doll wouldn’t fool the monkeys for long, so he decided to try something else.
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This year, Goda not only used hair dye to make his dog look like a little tiger, but he also put large stickers of real tigers as well as his fake tiger all over his land, in the hope that they would form guaranteed monkey scares. The farmer claims the paint does not harm the dog, as it is, in fact, a hair dye that lasts for a month before disappearing.
According to The Youth, the Srikant Goda stunt was so successful that it inspired other Indian farmers to follow suit. But it seems that this simple farmer was not the first to think of this trick, even for other purposes, such as China, which in 2010 was hit by the trend of paint dogs to look like tigers and panda bears. These little animals are not panda bears but rather Chinese dogs of the Chow Chow family that resemble lions dyed black and white to look like a panda.
This strange trend first appeared at a pet fair in Taipei, China in the summer of 2009, when there was fierce competition to dye and paint dogs, but dyeing your pets to look like wild animals is a newer fad.
Important in this event is its illustration of how rapidly and dramatically the attitude towards pets has changed – especially with dogs – in many parts of Asia. In Taiwan, for example, 10 years ago, dogs were still eaten in public restaurants and raised on farms for this purpose. Traditional Chinese medicine has long considered that “lean meat” from dogs can enhance one’s health. But now many view eating dogs as an embarrassing reminder of the past of poverty and destitution.
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But with the rise in the standard of living, the wealthy Chinese have adopted a culture of dog ownership as a reaction to the past, so they are brought to restaurants, highlighted in public places, made to wear funny clothes and dyed their fur to look like fierce tigers. Here, for example, some people accompany dogs painted in the colors of panda or tigers during the inauguration of a new pet zoo in Dahi Minkoy Park on June 5, 2010 in Chengdu, Henan Province, China.
China did not stop here, as there are dozens of different animal cafes throughout the republic where you can sip tea and hang out with cats, owls and raccoons. However, there is only one café where you can play with “panda”.
Of course, this cafe does not own any real panda, but it dyed its six dogs of the Chow Chow family to look like baby giant pandas, according to the Chengdu Economic Daily. The six “pandas” roam the café and play with customers as they eat.
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The Cute Pet Games Cafe opened in the famous city of Chengdu, which is a breeding and breeding center for panda animals in 2019, and did not stop here, but one of the owners decided to get the largest amount of attractions in the region by providing a service that enables dog owners to paint Their pets resemble the famous Chinese national symbol.
The owner, Huang, said it costs 1,500 CNY to paint a pet ($ 212). He said that the cafe has a specialized team of professional dyers and that the dye is of high quality and will not harm the skin or hair of animals. The process takes about a day to turn the dogs into a panda, according to the Hindu Times.
But several animal rights groups protested the act, saying that dyeing animal fur was unethical. One veterinarian confirmed that he discourages people from dyeing their pets, saying that “this may harm their fur and skin.” Several commentators on the Chinese social network Weibo have also posted comments against the practice.
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After the online reaction, the cafe announced that it no longer offers a dyeing service, according to The Guardian. In a statement on Weibo, the cafe said of the dogs that are now in their home: “These dogs have a much better life than ours, and they are very healthy. Internet users please don’t project your thoughts on us. ”
Of course, the matter did not stop in China or India, but it is spread in the rest of the world as a matter of fashion and personal whims without concern for animal health or the negative effects of this work, so do you support it or object to it and why? Tell us what you think in the comments.
