O Brave New World, that has such puppies in't!

[muriel_volestrangler]

SKorean cloned sniffer dogs put through their paces

SEOUL (AFP) — The world's first cloned sniffer dogs have begun training and will be ready to report for duty this year, South Korean customs officials said Monday.

Seven cloned puppies named Toppy ("Tomorrow's puppy") were born in late 2007 to three surrogate mothers under a state-funded project, the Korea Customs Service said.
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Lee used the nuclei of somatic cells from sniffer dog Chase, a Golden Retriever, to clone the puppies.

Project manager Lim Jae-Yong said that training the clones of a skilled sniffer dog is easier than training ordinary canines.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gwqY67m4V3p0uBLRLRdlBrYtG6ug

This is the first time I've heard of an animal being cloned for a specific ability. It's not so surprising that Aldous Huxley's 'Bokanovsky clones' would turn up like this, I suppose - since they're not people, we don't have the ethical concerns we would about designing identical humans, but they do have a specialist skill that might make it worth the effort.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Don't want no steenkin Mutant Mutts." - Human Beings

[Sabriel]

2. They should try to engineer it to have three noses.

That might work.