A farmer named Shrikant Gowda in south India came up with a unique idea to save the crops at his farm from thieving monkeys, by 'transforming' his guard dog into a guard tiger.

Gowda painted his one-year-old Labrador named Bulbul with black stripes like a tiger, seen here on December 2, to keep wild monkeys from his farm at Naluru village in Shivamogga village, Karnataka.

Gowda's farm has coffee and cardamom crops, but monkeys had become a local pest, destroying a large number of crops.

The idea came from a suggestion of Gowda's father, who commented that monkeys only fear tigers.

Reportedly the idea worked, with Bulbul being taken for walks twice a day across the farm, and for the past three months no monkey has stolen crops.

A farmer named Shrikant Gowda at Naluru village in Shivamogga village had came up with a unique idea to save his corps at his farmland from Monkeys scare. He painted his Labrador pet dog into a tiger look, he used hair dye to paint bulbul (dog name) which is one year old.
Shrikant has coffee and cardamom corps in his farmland, shrikant says Monkeys use to destroy a large number of corps, he says his father once says that Monkeys only get scared from tiger, so he painted his pet in tiger stripes so scare away Monkeys.
Asking if this idea worked, he says that this idea worked. Dog is taken for walk twice a day, he says no monkey entered his land since this transformation of dog into tiger