Japan has really had it tough lately. First it was the burning bidets, and now it's a poodle scam.
The Brisbane Times (Australia) reported yesterday about a scam perpetrated on the poodle-purchasing public.
Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles, The Sun newspaper reported today.
Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at $1,600 each.
That is a snip compared to a real poodle which retails for twice that much in Japan.
The scam was uncovered when Japanese moviestar Maiko Kawamaki went on a talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food.
She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep.
Then hundreds of other women got in touch with police to say they feared their new "poodle" was also a sheep.
One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.
You can't make this up.
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I'm laughing so hard I'm actually crying. Thanks, Skye.
Jacob, You are laughing awfully hard. Do you happen to know anything about this? Australian sheep...Australian Jacob laughing. Hmmm.
You would think they would get suspicious when the sheep went "baaaaah" instead of "woof". P.T. Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute. And with the high population of Japan, there might be 3 or 4 per minute.
Laughing so hard because it's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
I just have to shake my head...and then shake my head some more. And then laugh. As our secretary says, this is "beyond the beyond."
This story is all a hoax. If you check with Snopes you will see that it's an urban legend that has no basis in truth.
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