Posted on 04/26/2007 10:46:30 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
A Japanese actress inadvertantly blew the lid off a scam which had duped thousands of women into buying coiffured sheep in the belief they were poodles, the Evening Standard reports.
Maiko Kawakami appeared on a TV talk show with snaps of her pet, and admitted she wondered why it "didn't bark and refused to eat dog food". She was soon set straight - her dog was in fact a sheep.
The revelation provoked a stream of women to contact the cops with "similar problems". The powers that be reckon that as many as 2,000 have fallen victim to the audacious ovine poodle con, perpetrated by internet company "Poodles as Pets", which offered the animals at £630 a pop.
A police spokesman told The Sun: "We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company was selling sheep as poodles. 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."
In case you're wondering how on God's Green Earth you could mistake a sheep for a dog, the Standard explains that poodles are "extremely rare in Japan, with many people having little idea what they look like". No, we're not convinced either.
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Rush is talking about this right now.
No WAY!
You’d think even if a person hadn’t seen a poodle, they’d notice that the sheep didn’t have feet like a dog. Do the Japanese have any dogs they don’t eat?
I guess sheep are cheaper than poodles. Who knew?
Is Rush reading FR more often live on radio???
Yesterday the “current” thread on Bawbawa Wawa and the Bush motorcade (including the improper attribution of Bawbawa saying “Do you know who I am, (Cha Cha)?”) was mentioned on Rush (and he had to give a correction later when it was discovered that one of the other Shrew members said “Did they know who you were?”)
You'd think clever people like the Japanese might have invented photographs by now.
Gorillas are very rare here in New Jersey, but I know what they look like.
Probably also wondered why her husband would spend hours locked in the bedroom with the "poodle." :0)
Sounds as though someone got the wool pulled over their eyes.
One has to wonder if the “Baaaaaaaaa” instead of the bark didn’t give them a clue! Too funny!
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Admits she feels she got fleeced.
You can’t make up stuff like this.
And, somewhere in New Zealand, a farmer is wondering why his lamb tastes funny.
The Japanese don’t eat dogs. Very poor, rural Japanese ate dogs during WW2 out of desperation.
Dogs are eaten in Korea, parts of China, Siberia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines. I know it’s legal in North Korea. I think it’s an underground activity in the other places.
It's FINDING ONE that's the trick.
I would have to see a picture of those “poodles” after they were groomed to be able to understand how in the world they could have been so fooled. I can’t even imagine anyone not knowing the difference between sheep and poodles. They must be cute. ;o)
I am just trying to imagine an owner taking their ‘Shoodle’ to the Vet......and the Vet having to look up the pooch in the Clincal Medicine for Cats & Dogs Manual.....to no avail.....LOL!
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