Wonder if you can get 'em for politicians.

Look at it this way; dogs have to have something to lick when they get bored, and getting neutered sounds like it could lead to a LOT of boredom...

That sounds like a breakfast cereal;

"Try Neuticles, the breakfast of champions."

Said out loud, the product sounds like the old ones may have tickled, too.

Okay, it's official... there's nothing left to invent.

Neuticles have been used in show dogs. A show dog must be 'unaltered' to compete (strangely, unaltered doesn't include cropping and other such aesthetic measures). Some folks get a dog that later turns out to potentially be a champion and have them put in to cheat the system. You'll notice show dog judges now do 'nut-checks'

I always thought that was because of the personality change a dog exhibits after being fixed. They are probably much easier to train.

The conformation aspect of a dog show is, or at least was conceived as, verification of the quality of breeding stock; a neutered specimen obviously isn't going to be doing any breeding unless the owner has set aside samples in the freezer, something which the show judge can't very well verify.

Most of our left leaning politickers could use them. Kerry has no balls, neither does How weird Dean. These guys and most of the left postured immediately after 9-11, and then immediately showed us what they lacked as soon as we started action to get rid of terrorism in the world.

I always thought that was because of the personality change a dog exhibits after being fixed. They are probably much easier to train.

They're more docile, but not easier to train ; probably harder, if you know how a dog responds to honest training, when he sees the point and discovers that you are as serious about it as you're asking him to be.

In short, it diminishes the dog, and the people who should care, mostly don't. ``He doesn't miss what he never had,'' meaning gonads. But he isn't what he could have been as a dog, as training would have brought it out.

There's more of this in Vicki Hearne, probably in _Adam's Task_ or _Bandit_ or both.

For lying around the house, it probably doesn't matter. Give a dog work to do, and it matters.