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Arf!

In 2016, Su Yun went on vacation and returned home with a new family pet. She and her family thought they were getting a Tibetan mastiff. But it kept eating — “a box of fruits and two buckets of noodles every day,” she said — and growing, and eating and growing. “The more he grew, the more like a bear he looked,” she said. “I am a little scared of bears.” The family reached out to the Yunnan Wildlife Rescue Center, whose workers may have been more than a little scared: they sedated the Asiatic black bear before taking it away from the home in a village near Kunming, Yunnan, China, where it had lived with Su Yun and her family. (AC/London Independent) ...A little scary: a vegetarian bear. Terrifying: Your dog won’t eat meat.