Hormone therapy led dog astray
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The dog would not leave her alone and even tried to mount her, according to a report in the Lancet medical journal today.
The 26-year-old woman found the dog's advances so embarrassing that she had it castrated.
She was prescribed a course of antiandrogen, an anti-male hormone therapy, involving two dosage levels of cyproterone acetate.
The dog, which had a particularly keen sense of smell, was attracted by the odour of the cyproterone acetate and pestered her after she took the higher doses, the Lancet reported.
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