OT I have found someone dafter than an electrical apprentice

[ARW]

Pray silence for my Mum's hairdresser.

She has just taken her dog to the vets for a check up after finding it had 6 "warts" on it's chest.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

What is so very wrong with doing that?

[ARW]

I have just found someone dafter than my Mum's hairdresser.

[Fredxxx]

No different to your wife going to the doctor through being unable to discern the difference between breasts and warts.

Its the sort of question one would expect where husband and wife are first cousins! Is this a Northern life-style feature?

[ARW]

Does your wife have six breasts?

[spuorgelgoog]

I suppose if the dog's called Rex and she never looked too closely in the past ...

Owain

[spuorgelgoog]

There's going to be a lot of 'normal for Norfolk' comments I think

Owain

[Bob Eager]

No, but Eccentrica Gallumbits got halfway there.

[Jonno]

ARW scribbled

When the vet explained, did she feel a tit?

[Fredxxx]

She had two, but that was a long time ago!

[bert]

In article , ARW writes

LOL

[ARW]

When did she grow the last four?

[Tim Lamb]

Cocking a leg or squatting activity save looking for dangly bits.

[Lobster]

On 07 Sep 2015, [e-mail] grunted:

Genuine question - don't male dogs have nipples too, like male humans?

[NY]

I was thinking that, too.

I've never understood why male animals have evolved to have nipples.

[Tim Streater]

The question is not of them having evolved to have nipples, rather that all members of the species have them, just that in males they are not activated.

[spuorgelgoog]

Yes, in various numbers.

Owain

[spuorgelgoog]

Nipples are formed in the womb on the sexually undifferentiated zygote, which later turns into a sexually differentiated foetus through development of the XY chromasomes.

Or it's because God wanted men to wear nipple rings.

Owain

[Chris French]

In message , NY writes

IIRC they do, but not as obvious as human ones.

they didn't evolve to have them, they are there by default, as we have the same body plan whether male of female.

IIRC (developmental biology was a long time ago), the foetus is essentially female up until about 2 months, whatever the chromosomes.

If the foetus has a Y chromosome, hormones then influence development of male characteristics - , otherwise the foetus continues development as a female.. so the male continues to have nipples, but doesn't develop mammary tissue (obvious breasts in humans, but not all mammals).

Nipples don't cause a problem for males, and so there is no selection pressure against having nipples.

And it is why if men receive the right hormones/drugs they can grow breasts, as the tissue still has the potential to develop, given the right conditions

[whisky-dave]

Well adam and eve had nipples (according to the pictures)so does that mean God had them too ?