cloned pets news stories on Newser

Owner Gets Clones of Hero 9/11 Dog

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:36:27 CDT

The owner of hero 9/11 sniffer dog Trakr has been presented with four new bouncing baby ... Trakrs, reports TMZ. The four black puppies with piercing blue eyes are all clones of their hero pop. Just in time, too—the original Trakr died in April at the age of 15. He...

Fido's Clone Just Ain't Fido

Ambreen Ali — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:43:21 CST

Lou Hawthorne's canine cloning business is well on its way—with clients paying upwards of $130,000 to duplicate their pets—but the copies of his own beloved family dog have hardly replaced her. Clones Mira and MissyToo vary in size and color, and Hawthorne's mother—keeper of the original...

Two Cloned Dogs Have Pups

Kevin Spak — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:23:01 CDT

Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog, is now part of another milestone, AFP reports. South Korean researchers said today that Snuppy mated with a cloned female to produce a litter of 9 puppies—the first offspring of two cloned canines. “This shows the reproductive ability of a cloned dog,” said...

Are Cloned Puppies Worth the Risks?

Rob Quinn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:50:01 CDT

Canine cloning looks set to become big business but critics warn that deformed and diseased failures could outnumber the tail-wagging successes, Wired reports. Cloning fails far more often than it succeeds, and dogs are notoriously hard to clone. A Humane Society report earlier this year charged that "serious animal suffering...

Dog-Clone Woman 'Abducted Mormon Sex Slave'

Rob Quinn — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:19:17 CDT

The woman in the headlines this week for cloning her pit bull first caught media attention for kidnapping a Mormon missionary to be her sex slave, the Guardian reports. Bernann McKinney—then known as Joyce—tracked her ex-lover to Britain in 1977, abducted him with the help of a friend,...

Koreans Clone 5 Little Boogers

Kevin Spak — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:38:53 CDT

South Korean scientists have made the world’s first commercial clones, creating five copies of a heroic pit bull named Booger, the Times of London reports. The little Boogers were ordered and paid for—at an introductory rate of $50,000—by Hollywood screenwriter Bernann McKinney, owner of the now-departed original....

Hero Dog Wins Cloning Contest

Rob Quinn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:13:03 CDT

A retired Canadian rescue dog who helped find the last survivor in the rubble of the World Trade Center has been chosen as the world's most clone-worthy dog, the Globe & Mail reports. A California genetics company chose 15-year-old German shepherd Trakr to be cloned after reading an essay from...

Woman Orders Clone of Beloved Dog for $150K

Jim O'Neill — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:57:00 CST

A California woman has placed the first order for a cloned dog with South Korean biotech firm RNL Bio, pledging $150,000 for a genetic duplicate of her dead pitbull, Booger, who once saved her from a dog attack, reports the BBC. Seoul National University scientists, who produced the first...