Dogs painted like tigers to scare off monkeys

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What’s Hindi for “Pepé Le Pew”?

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Thylacines are back… in fashion.

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I hope someone follows up to record how long it takes the monkeys to figure out this cunning ruse…

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So… canines painted as felines by Homo sapiens to scare off simians. That’s got to be an allegory for something.

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I don’t know about allegory, but I as a simian am afraid of this:

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Scaremonkey

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Oh my goodness. It was only upon the 3rd glance was I able to fully appreciate what I was looking at.
(one time too many!)

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Primates are smart (well most of them) so my bet is they will come back in few month.

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3 months from now the unintended consequences of painting stripes on dogs …doigers and tiogs .

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Will this strategy work for racoons, too?

It probably helps if you soak the dog in tiger urine.

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Hmmm…a dog of a different stripe? :slightly_smiling_face:

Cool idea, dyeing dogs to look like tigers. Dying dogs don’t look like tigers.

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Do the dogs get fewer fly bites, too?

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don’t make the mistake of drunkenly getting that backwards though.

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I dunno. Don’t raccoons already have stripes?

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