At first glance they looked like miniature poodles, but they weren't at all. In reality, they were ferrets specially pumped with steroids and sold for just over a hundred dollars in Argentina, to be precise in La Salada, the largest open-air market in the country. It sounds like an absurd story, but that would be just what actually happened to several buyers.
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At first sight they looked like miniature poodles, but they weren't at all. In reality, they were ferrets specially pumped with steroids and sold for just over a hundred dollars in Argentina, to be precise in La Salada, the largest open-air market in the country. It sounds like an absurd story, but that would be just what actually happened to several buyers.
According to reports from the Daily Mail, he would have been a retiree of Catamarca a unmask the scam first: suspicious of the price of the animals, the man would have immediately brought the two specimens of "dog" purchased shortly before visiting a veterinarian, to carry out the vaccinations. This is how the suspicions of him, mainly due to the price, would have been confirmed.
They weren't dogs that he had bought, but ferrets, who had been given steroids from birth to increase their size. And the hair? It had been carefully blow-dried and brushed to simulate the curly coat of miniature dogs. Long considered an urban legend, the scam has made the headlines of all media in the South American country.
Even a local TV took care of it, managing to interview a woman who claims to have been deceived in the same way by an animal salesman pet at the market: he thought he had bought a chihuahua, but then discovered that it was a ferret (below the video). And, while it is not very clear what happened to ferrets passed off as dogs, remains a basic question: how it was possible that the buyers did not recognize the differences between the two animals?
Roberta Ragni
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