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29th Apr 2007, 12:08 AM #1WhiteCrow Guest
Ewe've been conned - the sheep they're selling as poodles
Caught this on Have I Got News For You - so funny!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....&in_page_id=34
Thousands of people have been 'fleeced' into buying neatly coiffured lambs they thought were poodles.
Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest 'must have' accessory.
But the scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her 'poodle' didn't bark and refused to eat dog food.
Like hundreds of Metro.co.uk readers, we also think this has a whiff of the 'urban myth' about it - but hey, it's a good story.
Maiko Kawakami, who starred in the Japanese thriller Violent Cop, showed photographs of her pet on a television talk show only to be told it wasn't a dog - but was in fact a lamb.
The discovery prompted hundreds of women to contact the police with similar problems and the authorities believe as many as 2,000 people have been conned.
'We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company was selling sheep as poodles,' a police spokesman told The Sun.
'Sadly, we think there is more than one company operating in this way.
'The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain and Australia.'
Poodles are famously used by the rich and glamourous on the continent but are extremely rare in Japan, with many people having little idea what they look like.
The company, which translates as Poodles as Pets, sold the 'poodles' for 630, about half the cost of a normal poodle but is now understood to have been shut down.
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29th Apr 2007, 11:35 AM #2Close embrace
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They're baaaaaaaaaaaad people.
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29th Apr 2007, 1:02 PM #3
If some people think a Poodle doesn't have a tail, has hooves & goes Baa then they deserve all they get!
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2nd May 2007, 11:52 AM #4
I gathered the Japanese made an investigation into the matter, and reported that it was a pile of buzzcocks...
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