The big sheep-for-poodles rip-off.

Thousands of people have been conned into buying what they thought were poodles but where in fact sheep sheared to look like poodles -what a rip-off!

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=46730&in_page_id=34

hehe, i luv stupid rich people.

hey but surely the wool is valuable whereas poodles only produce ....!

i like the story about the lonely japanese better. they pay £8/ hour so sit in a cafe with some friendly strokable cats, you can rent a dog by the hour, and if youre broke you can hire a beetle for a friend
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I have now found this link about it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/ovine_poodle_scam/

But I have also just discovered this link that reveals that this whole story is just a hoax!

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/japan-sheep-poodle-hoax.shtml