Pet store owner rescues stray ‘dog’ … that turns out to be silver fox
- He says they ‘realised something wasn’t right from its big tail and pointy face’
- They kept the animal in the shop for four days, feeding it dog food, before the local forestry bureau took it away
A pet store owner in northwest China got an unwelcome surprise when the stray “dog” he tried to rescue turned out to be a silver fox, a Chinese news website reports.
The man, surnamed Liu, was told by a customer there was a white dog wandering outside his shop last week in Xian, Shaanxi province, Thepaper.cn reported on Wednesday.
Fearing that it might be dangerous to the public, Liu and his staff tried to capture the animal.
“It was snowing on Thursday, so a customer let us know there was this small dog by the shop door,” Liu told the news website.
“But when we went to rescue it, we realised something wasn’t right from its big tail and pointy face – we then discovered it was a fox,” he said.
“We didn’t know what to do so we kept it [in the store] for four days.”
