"Hey, that's not a poodle."

From the Press Enterprise Daily News Digest blog comes this story of wildlife on a field trip in the suburbs — “Bear cub takes tries out a Ventura hot tub before returning to the wild”.

The story caught my eye especially because of this hilarious moment:

Resident Stephen Schafer says he looked outside at about 3 a.m. and thought “there is a really big poodle in my backyard.”

Then he made a realization.

“Hey, that’s not a poodle.”

While this might seem an unlikely occurrence to the uninitiated, if we were to let our standard poodle Pharaoh go ungroomed for a while, he would definitely become more sheepdog like. Which, in the middle of the night, could definitely pass for a bear cub.

Here he is, groomed:

Check out the Standard Poodle group on Flickr for lots of other examples. :)