Vet Blog

12/07/08

Student Learns the Hard way that Cuddly-Looking Creatures Aren’t Always Friendly
Dr. Eric Barchas, DVM

696px-panda_closeup.jpgIt’s off-topic, but I can’t resist re-printing this blurb from the December 5, 2008 issue of The Week.

[It was a bad week for] a Chinese college student [who] climbed into a zoo pen so he could hug a panda bear. “Yangyang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him,” said the student from his hospital bed. “I didn’t expect he would attack. I don’t remember how many bites I got.”

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