Urban Myth -> Baaaaad Dog: Sheep Sold as Poodles in (Fake) Scam

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UPDATE: This actually isn't true; it's an urban myth that seems to have evolved from the "Mexican Poodle legend, in which tourists bought giant rats, having been told that they were special poodles. We at NP began to have our suspicions when the video of the Japanese star failed to show up on youtube or Revver... ah, the Internet: your source of lies and truth.

Thousands of buyers were ripped off by unscrupulous yet imaginative Internet con artists who sold specially-groomed sheep as poodles.

[q
url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/ovine_poodle_scam/"]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.

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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.[/q]
£630 is around US$1260.