DOGGIE INVENTOR GOES TO FIRE HYDRANT IN THE SKY

DOGGIE INVENTOR GOES TO FIRE HYDRANT IN THE SKY

BUCKNER, Mo. (Wireless Flash) – Funeral services will be held later today for the world’s only canine inventor, “Buck the Bloodhound” – who helped create the world’s first testicular implants for pets. The 194-pound bloodhound died Monday at the age of 8 and will be cremated later today in Buckner, Missouri. Buck’s owner, Gregg Miller, says his inventive pooch helped inspire plastic testicular implants after Buck was neutered in 1993. Miller claims after the snip-snip job Buck “...looked depressed when he went to clean himself and nothing was there.” That got Miller thinking about a way to restore his dog’s “kibbles and bits” and, after two years of research, the first pair of artificial “Neuticles” hit the market. Although Buck was never fitted with the plastic privates, his creation has been installed in 60,000 other animals, including a prairie dog, two water buffalo and several rats.

Wed 05-02-01