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“Inhabitants of an apartment block in Bavaria, southern Germany, who called police to investigate the relentless buzzing of their doorbells late at night were surprised to find the culprit was not a teenage prankster as they had suspected, but a slug.”

+ “Neutered dogs, according to John and the American Kennel Association, are disallowed to compete in dog shows (or, per official patois, ‘confirmation events’) like this one, ‘because the purpose of a dog show is to evaluate breeding stock.’ ‘You’re kidding,” I said. He was not. This was the whole point of Westminster. No genitalia meant no siredom, no balls meant no miracle of provenance, and any act of sterilization would foreclose any possibility that—just like in aristocracy, or eugenics—greatness could beget greatness only in a highly managed, painstakingly selected marriage of prizewinning egg and seed. ‘They need their equipment,’ John nodded. ‘Now, if you can believe this, I knew a guy who had his dogs fixed with implants in his genitals after he got them neutered.'” Mina Tavakoli: A visit to the dog show.