Irish man's puppy adoption ad has an unexpected twist ending

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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- This "advert" for an eight-week-old German Shepherd called Lexi looks normal enough at first glance -- but there's a twist.

The following (fairly adorable) image was shared on the Facebook page "Dingle What's On" (a community hub for the Irish town of Dingle) last Thursday, and it initially looked like the poster was looking for someone to adopt his dog.

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Cute, right? Well if you were thinking you might like to give the pooch a new home, you're sadly out of luck.

Here's the text that accompanied the photo.

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At the time of writing, the post has over 8000 likes and nearly 4000 shares (although some people thought his wife might not see it the same way).

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