Taking A Bite Out of ID Crime

Poodle’s ID stolen

A prize-winning poodle from North Wales has become the latest victim of online identity theft.

Details of the two-year-old poodle, named Afonwen Welch Fusilier, were posted on the internet by proud owner Lynne Day who was keen to show off her dashing hound.

But a crook pilfered the details from the site and is passing the dog off as his own, according the the North Wales Post.

He claims that Afonwen Welch Fusilier – pet name Blue – has given birth to puppies, despite the real dog being male.

And the mystery man, who calls himself Henry Daf and whose registered address turns out to be a Glasgow graveyard, is touting the phantom pups to potential buyers for £1,000 each.

The scam was spotted by Annette Connolly-Read, of Hounslow, London, who was looking for a poodle on a dog sellers’ website and came across the mystery Afonwen pups.

Blue last year won at the Midlands Counties Canine Society Show and the North West Poodle Club, and competed unsuccessfully at Crufts.

North Wales Police are investigating the scam.

Until I remembered DNA I had visions of North Wales’ bumblingly macho (and racist) police sticking their noses up the arses of a lot of small, ridiculously clipped animals in an effort to sniff out the culprit.

Damn you, scientists, with your clever sciencey science. I was enjoying that mental picture.