Monkeys damaging the crop has been a cause of distress for many farmers. To save their crops, a farmer in Karnataka has painted his dog in tiger stripes to make it look like a tiger.

Farmer Srikant Gowda from Naluru village, Thirthahalli taluk told Deccan Herald, who owned the dog said he got the idea when he had seen a tiger-like doll used as a scarecrow near Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district four years ago.

He brought it to the village and placed it in his areca field and realised it worked. Monkeys were frightened after seing the doll and didn’t return to his plantation.

However, Gowda told Deccan Herald that he can’t do this for a long time so he instead painted his dog using hair dye and made it look like a tiger and the stripes lasts up to a month before fading.

The farmer has also put up posters of his dog and that of tigers in the grass to scare away the monkeys.

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