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Apparently China's dog parks suddenly look like miniature wildlife reservoirs thanks to this "hot trend" of giving pets expensive black-and-white paint jobs. This is all according to sites like the NY Post, News.com.au, and of course Metro and the Daily Mail -- all of which take pains to remind the reader that the Chinese used to eat these things, and all of which decided to open their articles with the exact same clever pun:



Dammit, Metro, you had to go and ruin the symmetry, didn't you?

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The question now is: Are there any dogs left in China that actually look like dogs? Probably, since this "craze" is just one set of pictures and a quote from a pet shop owner saying it's popular (because he sells them). As for the "this year's" part, that's accurate as long as the year is 2010, because that's when CNN ran the exact same fucking story, once more pressing the "They used to eat them!" angle. Also, it isn't just pandas, as Daily Mail informed us at the time:

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Props to the Daily Mail for not remembering they did this story because they don't read the Daily Mail.

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But even if it's just a small amount of people painting pets with ridiculous colors? That's a totally newsworthy thing that us Americans would never-