# Could you tell the difference between a toy poodle and a ferret? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-tell-the-difference-between-a-toy-poodle-and-a-ferret/660204 "2013-06-05T14:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-tell-the-difference-between-a-toy-poodle-and-a-ferret/660204/1 "2013-06-05T14:23:11Z")
A guy in Argentina couldn’t. [http://www.petmd.com/news/strange-but-true/man-buys-toy-poodles-learns-they’re-ferrets-steroids](http://www.petmd.com/news/strange-but-true/man-buys-toy-poodles-learns-they%E2%80%99re-ferrets-steroids) There’s a video of the local strory in Buenos Aires at the bottom of the link, with more pictures of the ferrets roided up and with fluffed up hair…but they still look like ferrets. Apparently toy poodles are in high demand in latin America and elsewhere and go for about $1,000 a piece. Guy bought the roided ferrets for $150 a piece thinking he was getting a great deal. Guess you get what you pay for. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-tell-the-difference-between-a-toy-poodle-and-a-ferret/660204/2 "2013-06-05T14:36:20Z")
That’s funny…I just saw an old _Simpsons_ episode the other day where the mobsters were gluing cotton balls to ferrets and trying to sell them as toy poodles.