Here, I used Hero Forge to create King Midas from Greek mythology as an anthropomorphic lion.
King Midas is horrified and ashamed that he now has donkey ears. (There were no donkey ears in the Hero Forge range, so I had to resort to rabbit ears, but they do look a bit like donkey ears.)

Mythology (as I know it)
King Midas of Phrygia became known for turning everything he touched into gold. However, he was able to overcome this ability, which had become more of a curse.
He became more humble and spent more time outdoors. He became the best friend of the forest and shepherd god Pan.
Pan boasted about playing his instrument, the Syrinx, which he had invented.
The naiad Syrinx was a devotee of the virgin goddess Artemis, whose retinue she belonged to. She spurned the love of the shepherd god Pan. While fleeing from him, at her request, she was transformed into reeds by the Ladon River. As the frustrated god's breath passed through the reeds, a poignant sound emerged. Pan then cut some reeds and, with the help of wax, made a shepherd's flute called a syrinx (pan flute), and played his songs on it.
Pan then declared himself a far better musician than the god Apollo.
Apollo, hearing this, was ready to challenge Pan to a musical contest.
The forest gods and spirits gathered, and an impartial judge was chosen. (Some versions say King Midas was chosen as the arbiter.)
And so the deities performed their music. Pan played his syrinx and Apollo his lyre.
Everyone voted Apollo the winner of the musical contest; all that was missing was King Midas's voice.
King Midas decided to give Pan a consolation vote, saying that Apollo had made a few minor mistakes while playing his lyre.
Apollo, who wanted to humiliate Pan with a unanimous victory, became quite angry.
Midas probably feared suffering the same fate as Marsyas, a satyr who claimed to be a better musician than Apollo with his double flute (originally invented by Athena and then discarded) and was flayed after his defeat.
But Apollo, probably thinking death would be far too swift a punishment for Midas, changed Midas's ears into those of a donkey so everyone could see what a good music critic he was.
Filled with terror and shame, King Midas returned unseen to his palace.
King Midas tried all sorts of headgear (shepherd's hat, straw hat, headscarf, and even a helmet) to hide his donkey ears, but none worked.
King Midas knew he would become a laughingstock if his donkey ears were ever discovered.
He confided his embarrassing secret only to his barber.
Under penalty of death, the barber was to maintain absolute silence about his donkey ears.
But over time, the secret weighed on the barber.
To ease his heart, he went to the riverbank, dug a hole in the sand, and whispered the secret into it: "King Midas has donkey ears."
The barber filled the hole, and shortly thereafter, reeds grew in that spot. When the wind blew through the stalks, one could clearly hear the whispers spreading the king's secret.
As King Midas had feared, he became the laughingstock of his subjects.
What happened to King Midas next is unknown.
Some say that Midas abdicated and went into exile to escape public scrutiny.
Others say that King Midas died of shame.
And still others believe that King Midas committed suicide, either by poison or by stabbing himself in the heart.

The moral of the story: The story shows the danger of someone passing judgment without truly mastering the subject matter.