Puppies turns out to be a ferrets!!

tk123

Idiots lol!! I wonder long this will take to catch on here on our favorite sites?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305310/Man-gets-shock-life-buys-toy-poodles-150-told-vet-actually-GIANT-RATS-pumped-steroids-look-like-dogs.html

Nody

As the old saying goes; you get what you pay for!

Silverfish

That's a pretty cute ferret, to be fair.

tk123

Nody wrote: »

As the old saying goes; you get what you pay for!

No it's all above board - they didn't register since it was an accident litter

PucaMama

Silverfish wrote: »

That's a pretty cute ferret, to be fair.

id keep them!

Miss Lockhart

Jesus what a horrendously written article and ridiculously inaccurate headline.

Terrible for all involved but ferrets can make great pets so I hope they're well looked after following their maltreatment.

they reporter doesnt seem to know what they are either. Giant Rodants !

Miss Lockhart

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they reporter doesnt seem to know what they are either. Giant Rodants !

No, GIANT RODENTS! Even worse!

tk123

Well at least the had a pic of an actual poodle - usually any dog story on DM has their stock pic of 'vicious bull breed'

eirator

You've heard the expression "I smell a rat", well anyone buying a ferret would certainly "Smell a Ferret"! Well you'd think so at least?

kylith

Anyone who can't tell a ferret from a dog kind of deserves it...

arybvtcw0eolkf

And a similar story of people being fleeced by bogus sellers.

Dog owners ‘fleeced’ in poodle scam

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.


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

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.

STORY LINK.

SillyMangoX

Surely the hoofs would give it away no?!?

http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/mexicanpet.asp



Whats going on with this world

Dogs turn out to be Ferrets

Dogs turn out to be Lambs

Cows turn out to be Horses

arybvtcw0eolkf

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http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/mexicanpet.asp



Whats going on with this world

Dogs turn out to be Ferrets

Dogs turn out to be Lambs

Cows turn out to be Horses

And mother-in-laws turn into bearded dragons!.

Jackasaurus rex

can't be true. no one could mistake a ferret for a dog.


but then again, people are pretty stupid

tk123

I've found a breeder online and am meeting him later round the back of Tescos to collect my Foodle he has Lambradors too if anyone is looking for one - they're non shed after all :pac:

looking_around

I'm not surprised.
Once knew someone, some years back, who brought a small dog home.

Killed her cat.

Turned out the 'dog' was a large rat >_>

gregers85

i think im actually gonna have nightmares tonight!