Man takes two years to figure out his dogs are black bears

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At what point do you realize that your beloved puppies are actually bears?

When they start growling? When they steal your picnic basket? Or maybe almost immediately, when they stop looking like small dogs and start looking like bears.

For one Chinese man, it took two years to decide that something was distinctly un-dog-like about Spot and Fido. Wang Kaiyu, a villager in the Chinese province of Yunnan, purchased two "puppies" while on a trip in Vietnam. He described them as "lively, not picky about food and friendly with humans."

After some time went by, he realized they were behaving "strangely," although the bears would probably beg to differ on that description.

Wang Kaiyu finally put two-and-two together when he saw a PSA about wildlife protection. Asian black bears are a protected species in China. Also, they are not dogs.

He got in touch with a wildlife rescue center in Yunnan, which took in the two bears. They were determined to be in good health but possibly possessing an incurable fondness for Dog Chow.