when Sooyoung bought a puppy to add to her family she couldn't believe how much
the animal could eat however as the creature began to grow bigger and bigger
she realized it really wasn't like the other dogs in fact it was a different
animal altogether su comes from the province of Yunnan in the southwest of
China she lives in the city of Kunming with her family and in 2016
her brood expanded by one when she adopted what she believed was a puppy su
had thought the animal in question was a Tibetan Mastiff a large dog that was
bred to protect Tibetan tribes from wolves bears and leopards so given that
it had a lot of growing to do su and her family no doubt expected the dog to eat
a lot however its insatiable appetite came as a surprise according to su even
as puppy the dog consumed an astonishing amount of food each day it chomped its
way through a whole box of fruits and two buckets of noodles but at this point
the animals family thought little of it it was only as the creature continued to
grow that su began to worry that her Pat was not a dog at all by the time it was
two years old at weight a whopping 250 pounds which was at the very largest end
of the scale for an average Tibetan Mastiff
however the animals tremendous size wasn't the only thing to raise su
suspicions as he grew larger her dog began to display a talent for walking on
its hind legs what's more it seemed to have much more balance on two limbs than
your average canine eventually something clicked in Sue's mind and she realized
that her pet wasn't a dog it was in fact a bear the more he grew the more like a
bear he looked she revealed and she added I'm a little scared of bears
clearly a family home was no place for a bear apart from the obvious risk the
creature posed to humans it's also illegal to keep wild animals as a result
su approached kunming zoo to see whether the facility could take the bear in
however since su had no birth certificate for the animal the zoo was
unable to help so sue turned to the kunming forestry
police who referred her to the staff at Yunnan Wildlife Rescue Center who agreed
to take the bear off her hands by the time officials reach the bear it stood
at around three feet tall as a result staff felt pretty intimidated by the
animal despite the fact that it was used to human interaction so to be on the
safe side they sedated the creature so they could transport him to his new home
once the animal arrived at the UN and wildlife rescue centre staff confirmed
he was an Asiatic black bear the species is categorized as vulnerable by the IUCN
because of threats to its existence from hunting and deforestation in China the
expansion of the human population has led to habitat loss in the forests of
Xiang ji Gansu and Sichuan as a result between the 1940s and the 1990s the
distribution area of black bears shrank by 80 percent poaching is another threat
facing the Asiatic black bear the animal's body parts including their paws
and gall bladders can fetch thousands of dollars in the black market so it could
have been easy for Sue's former pet to fallen into the wrong hands
thankfully though at Eun an wildlife rescue center the animal had found a
safe haven staff there named the bear little black man we're happy to discover
he was in good health with those scars or wounds to his body in China Asiatic
black bears are protected by the national protection wildlife law as a
result those caught hunting the Bears or catching them without the proper
documentation can expect to be severely punished even though Sue's family
eventually turned the bear in according to National Geographic they could still
face a punishment for keeping wildlife however police reportedly said that any
penalty would likely be reduced due to their cooperation unsurprisingly given
the nature of the story it was soon picked up by the Chinese press shortly
thereafter Sue's extraordinary mix-up hit headlines worldwide and it soon
became clear that many people simply couldn't believe that someone could
raise the bear believing it was a dog among the international news outlets to
cover Sue's story was National Geographic
a video documenting her family's remarkable tale was featured on the
National Geographic wild youtube channel in may 20 18 and it left as close to 30
thousand viewers perplexed by what they'd seen writing in the comments
section below the video one person asked just how is this even possible it took
them a whole two years to realize it doesn't go wolf this is too funny to
even get mad at thanks for sharing National Geographic
but amazingly sue and her family aren't the only people who have mistakenly
raised a bear believing it was a dog in March of 2018 Chinese media reveal how a
man from the same area as sue took in a stray dog only to later discover he was
also raising a bear so there's no reason to believe that sue had any idea there
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