Much Ado about NOTHING

I was editing some children's book descriptions today, and came across this gem:

"Ping craves adventure and excitement but unfortunately he is a panda… and pandas do pretty much nothing except eat bamboo for around 14 hours a day and poo up to 40 times a day."

I always thought of pandas as cute bears (though there's some debate about whether they are actually bears or just bear-like), and I wanted one as a kid. It doesn't sound like they make great pets, though. An animal that eats for 14 hours a day and defecates up to 40 times a day is a food-processing machine. There also isn't a lot of bamboo in upstate New York, where I was spawned, so it would have been hard to keep one happily fed. And I suspect they are difficult to house-train. Who wants to walk their panda 40 times a day? It would have been... wait for it... pandamonium.

Then there's the eternal quesion: Is this creature a white bear with black bits or a black bear with white bits?