The Dog That Brings Royal Dutch Airline Passengers Lost Items Is A Fakety-Fake, But He’s Still Adorable

Sherlock the beagle receives a hug from a little boy after returning the stuffed toy he left on an airplane.

Remember the super cute beagle we told you about yesterday? You know, the one that runs around the Amsterdam Airport Schipol returning lost items to Royal Dutch Airline Passengers. Well I am utterly heartbroken (although I should have seen this coming) to report that he’s a fraud. Of course, he’s a living breathing dog, but he won’t be returning your misplaced items anytime soon. Sherlock was used as an illustration of how KLM’s Lost & Found team works to reunite passengers with their belongings. [Factually]

An official with the advertising team behind the video confirmed that Sherlock isn’t a permanent part of the Lost & Found team.

“To launch the team, we decided to give them a helpful mascotte, Sherlock the search dog. With the video we wanted to show that KLM goes above and beyond to return lost items to their owners,” the official with DDB & Tribal said.