Booger is back: Woman receives 5 cloned puppies

August 5, 2008 By HYUNG-JIN KIM , Associated Press Writer Booger is back: Woman receives 5 cloned puppies (AP)

Five cloned pitbull puppies are seen at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Bernann McKinney from the U.S. received the five puppies -- copies of her beloved late pitbull 'Booger' -- from a South Korean biotech firm in what it calls the world\'s first commercial canine cloning service. (AP Photo/RNL BioStar, Inc., Jin Han Hong)

(AP) -- Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's first successful commercial canine cloning service.

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DGBEACH - Aug 05, 2008
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Great, now we're cloning boogers!
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Decaf - Aug 05, 2008
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Why camels? Wouldn't it make more sense from a business perspective to clone horses? Seems there's already a pretty big industry that would love to clone some world-class racing horses or lipizzaner stallions.
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karmaFTW - Aug 05, 2008
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or here's an idea...instead of clonging animals that are already in abundance...how about cloning some species that are dying out from extinction due to human interference. just a thought...
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Glis - Aug 05, 2008
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Start cloning people already! You could learn a lot about yourself from a clone.

I can't believe that made 5 of him though. They better not split those dogs up. Maybe they can link up like Voltron!
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ofidiofile - Aug 05, 2008
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or here's an idea...instead of clonging animals that are already in abundance...how about cloning some species that are dying out from extinction due to human interference. just a thought...

partly because it's prohibitively expensive compared to live breeding, and doesn't do a whit for the species' genetic diversity. i admit it's tantalizing to imagine that simple replication, animal by animal, will save species; but the biggest problems involve maintaining and protecting viable wild habitat.
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TJ_alberta - Aug 06, 2008
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lots of nice animals at the SPCA just waiting for a good home.
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