My friends often think that I make up some of the stories I tell them. You can’t make these things up. I don’t have that much imagination. For example, see this:
Thousands of Japanese people have apparently been scammed into buying “poodles” that are actually sheep with fancy haircuts. The scam was uncovered after actress Maiko Kawakami showed a photo of her pet poodle on TV and commented that it “didn’t bark and refused to eat dog food,”
Pictures are here. One of the commenters there asks whether this is what is meant by a sheepdog.
Source: boing-boing.
Update: Hmmm… Taste of my own medicine. Normally, people forward me all kinds of internet crap, and I have to tell them it is a hoax. Now I got the same thing done to me. In the comments below, MJ points out that this is a hoax. Snopes (one of my favorite sites on the internet) has officially debunked the story. Serves me right for being too credulous.
Er actually you *can* make these things up.
It’s a hoax.