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It’s so passe to put your dogs in purses and buy them designer clothes these days.

In the newest pet fad, dog owners in China are dyeing their mutts to resemble pandas and tigers, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph

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Chow Chow dogs that normally have golden fur are being dyed white and black to resemble fluffy pandas. Golden Retrievers with light blonde hair are painted orange and given black stripes to look like tigers.

Oh, I love how China’s burgeoning middle class spends its money on the bizarre. More cute/ridiculous photos after the jump. A Google search for “ dog dye

” frighteningly returns 2.7 million hits. There are hundreds of websites that instruct pet owners how to dye their dogs’ fur.

that spending in the U.K. on pets has increased by 500% from 1999 to 2008, at the expense of the animals’ dignity, of course.

Check out this horrifying gallery

of pooches dyed in every colour the rainbow has to offer.