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Thousands of Japanese pet-owners were shocked to discover that they had been fooled into believing that they were buying pedigree poodles when they were, in fact, sheep.
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You are a monkey. You throw darts. At balloons. Simple gaming fun - and bloody addictive, to boot.
Snopes.com reckons that the poodle-sheep thing is a hoax.
hg, in undoubtably is - or at least a small grain of truth covered in bollocks - but it still got printed in several national newspapers… And it’s still a funny idea.
The complete story is here. Interestingly, Sapporo is the largest sheep farming area in Japan: they’re pretty likely to know what they look like…