Family raises 250-pound ‘dog’ for 2 years — then realizes it’s a bear

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Family raises 250-pound ‘dog’ for 2 years — then realizes it’s a bear
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A Chinese woman’s beloved Tibetan mastiff pup turned out to be an Asiatic bear weighing 250lbs.

A family in a remote part of China adopted what it thought was a puppy, only to discover two years later that it was actually a bear.

Tibetan mastiffs are huge dogs with thick black-and-brown coat. Males can weigh as much as 150lbs. Two years on, Su’s pet was tipping the scales at 250 pounds and getting ever bigger. When the woman noticed the animal’s unusual knack for walking on two legs, her bewilderment escalated to an alarm.A woman in Yunnan Province, China, thought she was buying a Tibetan mastiff puppy, but the animal would not stop growing thanks to its ravenous appetite.“The more he grew, the more like a bear he looked,” Su told Chinese media.

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