Good News for the Balding

Mice who lost their fur from stress (“where’s my cheeese?!?”) were able to grow it back, and keep it, with help from a new chemical compound. What this means for you and your hair remains unclear, although little stressed-out mice everywhere are very relieved.

Also in animal-related New York Times articles: people who won’t stop sleeping with their pets no matter what.

Most gentlemen callers don’t even make it to the bedroom. One bolted when Ms. Ruttenberg, who has a total of 160 animals on her sprawling mountainside property, let a baby goat into the living room after Trixie, the pig, had already joined the visit.

‘I thought he would find a little goat charming,” she said. “But after the pig, it was too much for him. Especially as the goat, Iris, was leaving droppings on the floor.”