Nutty Nobel for fake dog testicles

GREGG MILLER mortgaged his home and maxed out his credit cards to mass produce his invention — prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs — and has been rewarded with an “alternative” Nobel Prize.

What started 10 years ago with an experiment on an unwitting Rottweiler named Max has turned into a thriving mail-order business. And on Thursday night Miller's efforts earned him a dubious yet strangely coveted honour: the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.

"Considering my parents thought I was an idiot when I was a kid, this is a great honour," he said. "I wish they were alive to see it."