I have no idea what you're doing

At a dog show in Shenyang, China, a Tibetan Mastiff has no idea whatsoever what this man is trying to achieve. Photo: REUTERS/Sheng Li

• [Rusty Shackleford]

  It’s afraid!

  • [Paul Renault]

     Naw, it’s trying to find some place cold so it can be comfortable.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    To fight the mastiff, we must understand the mastiff.  We can ill afford another Potala.

• [duc chau]

  At a dog show in Shenyang, China, a Tibetan Mastiff has no idea whatsoever what this man is trying to achieve.

  Orgasm?

• [snagglepuss]

  Hell, *I* don’t know what he’s doing, either.

• [eselqueso]

  This is the part of the show… WHEN WE DANCE!

• [bcsizemo]

  Maybe he’s trying to find a heartbeat to make sure it’s not a robot under all that hair…

  • [Ashen Victor]

     Mmmmm… maybe it´s a
    Muffit II Robo-Daggit!

• [Rich Keller]

  My initial impression was of a big nerdy guy wrestling himself into a fursuit.

• [PhosPhorious]

  “Is that the Heimlich maneuver, or are you just glad to see me?”

• [theophrastvs]

  he’s holding it up for all to admire its shaggy beauty or “shageuty”
  

  A man holds up his Tibetan mastiff as they perform on stage during a dog beauty contest at an exhibition center in Shenyang, Liaoning province March 23, 2012. About 2000 Tibetan mastiffs participated in the China Tibetan Mastiff Exhibition, local media reported.

  gratuitous link

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  I hope he’s doing it right; those things sell for up to $1,000,000 in China.

• [voiceinthedistance]

  Some cultures have historically used donkeys for this purpose, if I’m not mistaken.

• [sean]

  nonviolent civil disobedience. Probably was staging a lie-in.

• [sean]

  China! The ongoing rape of Tibet is bad enough, but good Lord! The dogs too?

• [sam1148]

  Do you have to wipe it’s butt after it poops? 

• [BBNinja]

  It looks like a man raping a muppet.

• [AMJ]

  You must realize by now they are at the food market…

• [catgrin]

  “…and when I make him stand like THIS with one paw dangling, it is called ‘Majestic Snuffleupagus’!”

• [zarray]

  IT’S SO FLUFFY I COULD DIEEEEEE

• [That_Anonymous_Coward]

  The first knock off of Tickle Me Elmo had some serious design issues….

• [Quib]

  He’s probably just showing off how shaggy that dog is.
  Really, that is an exceptionally shaggy dog. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog as shaggy as this one. 

  • [Amy Hahn]

    You Don’t Say

• [sdmikev]

  looks like a giant chow chow. :)

• [miasm]

  He’s clearly trying to simultaneously claim it doesn’t exist and dominate it at the same time.

• [Hoss]

  Dawg died before the show and he’s making the best of it

• [Brainspore]

  That’s actually just a photo of a team mascot struggling to put on a very cumbersome dog suit. See, he’s already got his arms in.