Did you have a Farmer Says toy when you were a kid? It looked like a clock with an arrow in the center and pictures of animals bordering the edge. You point the arrow at an animal and pull the string, then the recording tells you what sound that animal makes. The Farmer says: the cow goes moo. The duck goes quack. The sheep goes baa. Well, apparently these people didn't have that toy growing up:
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.
My question is: what is going to happen to all of these wayward sheep? Clearly the people who sold them shouldn't have them back. And my guess is that you can't keep them in your Tokyo apartment. Poor sheep! Baa.
At the resivoir by my house goats come over and eat the grass. I think they drive themselves over and then leave when the food runs out. Hammie and Gristle thought they were dogs and stuck their fingers in the fence. Auntie Gail told them to take their fingers out, or they'd get bitten off. Anyway, if the Australian sheep eat grass like goats, maybe they can find jobs in Japan like the American goats.
Posted by: anne | April 26, 2007 at 11:03 AM
That is SUCH a bizarre story! How on earth do you imagine these folks coming up with that scheme?! heheh sitting around their dining table plotting get-rich-quick plans and they come up with THIS?! yikes! hehe
Posted by: Sasha | April 26, 2007 at 03:11 PM
Ohmygosh! My heart goes out to those poor sheep! I am too much of an animal lover, I know, but I would want to take them all in!
Posted by: Kathy | April 26, 2007 at 03:15 PM
Poor sheep -- and I wonder why the real poodles would have been so much more expensive to breed and sell... I'd rather a sheep anyday (though admittedly, not in a Japan sized apartment).
Posted by: Christene | April 27, 2007 at 06:17 AM
Let me get this straight......we are talking about real sheep. The kind that baa and love to eat shoe laces? Um, ok-kay.
Posted by: Bonnie | April 27, 2007 at 07:20 AM
Poor sheep! I just hope they don't become lamb chops...that would be so sad!
Posted by: Shelley | April 27, 2007 at 05:58 PM
I love lamb chops. They are so delicious.
Posted by: anne | April 28, 2007 at 11:47 AM
This is sad but in a way very funny. How the heck could you mistake a lamb for a poodle? The first clue would be when it went "baaaa". Hopefully these sheep were in good health and didn't need to be put down. Hopefully there are some very fortunate (ha, pun intended) farmers in Japan.
Posted by: Teri | April 29, 2007 at 02:22 PM
poor lambies.
Posted by: Jenny | April 30, 2007 at 06:54 AM
Ohmhygod that's a hillarious story. Too bad it's not true:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/poodlesheep.asp
It did make me laugh though.
Posted by: Cecilia | April 30, 2007 at 07:22 PM