BUENOS AIRS: An Argentinian man who thought he bought a pair of poodles at an outdoor market in Buenos Aires brought them home to the vet only to be told they were actually ferrets on steroids, reports the Daily Mail.
The man, a retiree from Catamarca, purchased the animals at La Salada, Argentina’s largest bazaar. The veterinarian informed him the ferrets “had been given steroids at birth to increase their size and then had some extra grooming to make their coats resemble a fluffy toy poodle,” the paper says, translating a report from a local Argentinian TV station.
He paid $ 150 per poodle. Another woman interviewed by the station said she was tricked into thinking she had purchased a chihuahua at the same market. It’s unclear what the duped pet owners did with their faux poodles.
Man buys toy poodles, discovers they’re ferrets on steroids
