They Didn't Buy A Zoo!

Chinese zoo tried to pass off dog as lion 

Taylor Bigler/Daily Caller

A zoo in China tried — and failed — to pull one over on its visitors by trying to pass off a Tibetan mastiff as an “African lion.” They could have gotten away with it if only the dog had started roaring instead of barking. 

The People’s Park of Luohe in the Henan province put an employee’s fluffy dog into the cage marked “African lion” because the lion had been shipped to a breeding facility, Beijing Youth Daily reports, via FoxNews.com. 

A mother was pointing out different species of animals to her son when she realized that the “lion” was actually making the sound a dog makes. But the mastiff wasn’t the only pet the zoo tried to pass off as wildlife. 

They also caged ”two coypu rodents in a snake’s cage, a white fox in a leopard’s den, and another dog in a wolf pen.”

 “The zoo is absolutely cheating us,” a visitor told the Chinese paper. “They are trying to disguise the dogs as lions.” 

People probably wouldn’t have been so mad about the whole thing had the zoo just marked the cage Tibetan mastiff, because those dogs are perhaps even more adorable than lions. 

Get Rich Quick Scheme #414 found! There are all these new people in Odessa and Midland with no new entertainment venues being added and a lot of these people have snot nosed brats too! What are these people craving? A zoo!

I’ll just start adopting pets from shelters or stealing them out of people’s yards/houses and then I’ll put them on display in some parking lot. Why wouldn’t they give me a license for that? They let people sell disgusting blankets with sports team logos that mean nothing to most people in West Texas or cantaloupes.

Heck, I could even glue wings to a few stray cats and claim I genetically mutated a new species of animal. All I need is a lab coat to sell that story.

This idea is just chocked full of opportunities. P.S. – I think that’s the lion that was hiding out in my buddy’s yard. See the Group Text Moment of the Day Tuesday and Wednesday for the inside joke.