This post is going to be a mixed bag of sorts.

I found photos of the hairless dogs via Google.

This particular pooch seems to counter something I read, probably at Mudcat at one time on some trivia thread, about male dogs having nipples. I think the statement was that they don't, but this pooch clearly does. In the "for what it's worth" department--which may be nil.

And though the biggest problem is in Ciudad Juarez, opposite El Paso, that last post triggered a memory of a troubling and unsolved mystery in Mexico, the murder of hundreds of young women. If you're subscribed to read the Washington Post you should be able to read this article. It is from Dec. 16, 2005, and starts:

Unresolved Murders of Women Rankle in Mexican Border City
New State Officials Seek Justice in Hundreds of Bungled Cases

By Sylvia Moreno
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 16, 2005; Page A30

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Almost 18, Laura Berenice Monarrez was a serious student with dreams of a big future. She wanted to be a medical examiner, she told her mother in a long conversation on Sept. 18, 2001. Boys were just a distraction from her career plans, she said.

Three days later, "Bere" Monarrez disappeared. Seven weeks after that, her body and those of seven other pretty young women were found in an abandoned cotton field beside a busy boulevard near downtown. All had been raped and strangled.

Today the so-called campo algodonero or "cotton field" case remains unsolved, as do many of the 377 slayings of women and girls over the past 12 years in this gritty, industrial border city.

"For us, four years have passed and we have a lot of programs, but we have no justice," said Benita Monarrez, 43. Although government funds have been established to compensate families of murder victims, she said, the money means nothing as long as her daughter's killer remains at large. "For me, that is injustice."

For years, the mysterious deaths and disappearances of women have frustrated officials and terrified families in Juarez, a transient city where thousands of women live in shantytowns and work in maquiladoras, the factories on the U.S. border that produce electronic circuit boards and auto parts.

About a fourth of the victims were kidnapped, raped and strangled in a similar way, leading victims' families to believe that a sexual serial killer remains on the loose. The whereabouts of almost 40 other women who have disappeared since 1993 are still unknown. And this year, the number of homicides with female victims has surged to 30, although authorities attribute 80 percent of them to domestic or family violence.

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