PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

Dog lovers in Argentina got a nasty shock after they bought pedigreed toy poodles that turned out to be ferrets enlarged by steroids. One senior citizen who was duped by the scam took home two “puppies” for $300—a big bargain over the $2,000 that two toy poodles would cost. When he took his cute new pets to be vaccinated, a vet revealed that his pedigree dogs were actually ferrets that had been given steroids to increase their size and extra grooming to fluff up their fur.