Man adopts dog but it turns out to be a rat
A very strange story is currently going viral in China, and it involves a man and his rather unusual pet. Accor-ding to Shanghaiist, the story is about a man who recently adopted a dog, but soon realised it was a rat. Bizarre, right? You're not alone in thinking that. An account of the incident, posted by the unnamed man himself in a blog post, had hundreds of readers scratching their heads at this misunderstanding.
According to the blog post, dated September, the misunderstanding took place when the man went to his friend's place in a "small mountain village" in China. There, he and his friend found a small, black dog at the door of his friend's house. "It was dark at the time, and my friend could not see well," wrote the man, adding that they felt sorry for the dog and decided to adopt it.
However, as time went by, the man realized that there was something wrong with it, particularly as it did not grow any hair and did not run like a dog. And so, the man posted a blog with pictures of the animal in late September, asking netizens for their help in identifying it. He soon got his answer. Netizens identified the animal as a bamboo rat - a nocturnal rodent that lives in southern China and mostly feeds on bamboo.
