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What's Better Than One 9/11 Hero Dog?

Posted Jun 17th 2009 1:00AM by TMZ Staff

Four 9/11 hero dogs!!!

Trakr 911 dog

Trakr, a K9 police and search and rescue dog who was credited with locating the last human survivor of 9/11, was recently cloned as part of BioArts' Golden Clone Giveaway. Trakr's owners are being presented today with four perfect (and not at all creepy) clones of Trakr, who sadly passed away in April.

Curious how it was done? To clone Trakr, Dr. Hwang Woo-suk and his team replaced the genes in canine eggs with genes from Trakr, stimulated the eggs to spur them to develop into embryos, then transferred the embryos to dogs who served as surrogate mothers.

Mother Nature would be proud.

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1. not sure what to say on this one....love dogs and the K-9 was a marvel... but.. I dunno

Posted at 1:13AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Iam Smartman

2. Dudes that is so cool!

Posted at 1:30AM on Jun 17th 2009 by me mysel and I

3. As long as they don't clone Heidi and Spencer,

Posted at 1:46AM on Jun 17th 2009 by It's Good To Be Me!!!

4. Those dogs have some badass looking eyes. I want one.

Posted at 1:46AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Wilson

5. awww thats cute

Posted at 1:47AM on Jun 17th 2009 by dantas

6. Really too bad an animal in such a "spotlight" and "positive" position would be used in conjunction with cloning. Sooo many unwanted/euthanized dogs in the world and cloning them just shouldn't be something so encouraged-whatever the justification. Sad.

Posted at 1:54AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Doogie

7. Hwang W00-suk, are you kidding me? This has to be a freaking joke

Posted at 2:13AM on Jun 17th 2009 by WTF OMG

8. There are THOUSANDS of dogs that have all the same abilities that this dog does that are in our animal shelters right now. This cloning thing is all about a sleazy breeder trying to cash in on the 9/11 disaster. What a scumbag!

Posted at 2:32AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Stenny

9. There are thousands of dogs with the SAME abilities that this dog has that are in our animal shelters right now! This cloning is just a sleazy breeder trying to cash in on the 9/11 diaster with a sleazy stunt.

Posted at 2:36AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Stenny

10. Clone the hot policeman!

Posted at 3:03AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Cita

11. they should give one to the survivor Trakr located.

Posted at 2:44AM on Jun 17th 2009 by mamas

12. How sweet.....
Now they should start on cloning the 3,000+ lives lost on 9/11:
Including the Pentagon and Flight 93.

Posted at 4:12AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Jezzy

13. REALLY CLONE DOGS??
with ALL THE lost animals all over the world they thought it was an obligation to clone some damn dogs?????????????

IDIOTS!!!

Posted at 4:33AM on Jun 17th 2009 by clone this

14. What a geat picture. THank you Sir for asaring

Posted at 4:36AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Sandy

15. I don't know about this either. Most dogs have loyal, brave and heroic natures. My niece held a charity for Salvation Army after 911 and we had guest hero 911 dogs attend. They had wonderful natures and many had been badly hurt but kept trying to save lives. I think we humans or excuses for humans should look at the dogs for some character building examples and try to emulate them.

Posted at 5:05AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Linda Mott

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