Sheepdog

Edit: Snopes posted a story yesterday refuting this story. :( So… looks like it’s not true.

Ok, so it’s not a sheepdog, it’s a lamb. YA RLY.

I gotta be honest: I’m a dog person, and I’m not sure I’ve ever looked very closely at full-sized poodles enough to know what their face should look like, or what types of bodies they should have. If you gave one a bitchin’ poodle-cut, I doubt very seriously that I’d even know the difference.

Then again, if I bought a lampoodle, I’d probably know a thing about poodles and might be a little more discriminating.

Dog owners ‘fleeced’ in poodle scam
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Is it a lamb? Is it a poodle? Can you spot the difference?

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.

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.