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

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.

Tags: 911, clone, dogs, puppies

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16. why not clone a hero..as long as you bring him up as the same hero..something to think about

Posted at 6:44AM on Jun 17th 2009 by wyat71

17. This sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King novel. These dogs will grow up to be terrorists themselves.

Posted at 12:07PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Sweetiebird

18. My heart is swollen to the point of bursting. No Doubt now! What is this about Adam Lambert "Gives the Boy a Hand. Not sure I wanna read that post....ugggg! No record exec will ever shake his hand now. Just killed his career.

Posted at 6:47AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Kenneth

19. omigod it's RePet....

Posted at 7:10AM on Jun 17th 2009 by SteadyEddie

20. CLONES? And you are serious. And think it's fine. Because you would. You're in on it. Nevermind.

Posted at 7:41AM on Jun 17th 2009 by ReallyBummed

21. TO clone or not to clone?.I had a family once whom were all built from leftover parts which they cloned.I was told at the office on the mothership that I would never be cloned because of some fluk in my DNA in which I can never be on the planet zepstar or I would discomboobulate Oh well so much for cloneing I think there is some danger there as if one gets some disorder all will get the same disorder...in other words if we were all clones we could be wiped out by one little germ or virual MUTATIONS progress the genes cloneing regresses the genes thus builds a non fuctional DNA.Cloned corn and hybreeds need all kinds of sprays to keep them in high yields and can bleed into non cloned corns which can wipe out healthy breeds which regresses the genes even more.You can`t go home anymore and you can`t go back to the past or you will die just as those died.

Posted at 5:20PM on Jun 17th 2009 by FROG-DAWG

22. Trakr. Sounds like a Palin kid but they all look a whole hell of a lot cuter.

Posted at 8:31AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Kay

23. honestly, idk if i agree with the whole "cloning" situation on anything.. it kind of is going gainst nature...and it IS a little creepy..

that being said.. as long as they treat the pups well...as long as whoever ends up with them treats them well at that.

this is why people should love and respect animals..that dog saved that person's life I don't care what ANYONE says . We should hold them up a little more higher that we do. R.I.P Trakr god bless!

Posted at 8:36AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Tweety

24. LOVE the puppies! Don't think I like the cloning though? Anyway.... am a proud owner of 3 wonderful German shepherds that were rescued from certain death at the shelters. Please people - save a dog's life - don't buy from a pet store that uses "puppy mills" to produce dogs. Treat your dogs like a family member!

Posted at 9:54AM on Jun 17th 2009 by doubleJ

25. Stenny are you retarded you can`t take a dog from a shelter and turn it into a police K9 dog. These dogs need to be trained from birth lol.

Posted at 10:18AM on Jun 17th 2009 by JFRules

26. That is one fine looking cop...Drool!! Oooo, and the puppies are cute too. Wouldn't mind a super size poster of that guy on my wall:)

Posted at 10:25AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Woot

27. STOP CLONING!!! Bad idea folks..... They are cute, big frigging deal.....so are my shoes.

Posted at 10:48AM on Jun 17th 2009 by yomama

28. The how is creepy but they are so cute.

Posted at 11:14AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Tee

29. you people bitching about them cloning dogs when there are plenty in shelters are retarded and will never get it so i'm not going to even try to explain it to you except for this...right now we are only cloning animals and not people, would you be happier if dodo birds were being cloned?

Posted at 11:27AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Lara

30. Lara-it does not matter. We should not be taking things that die for whatever reason and remake them to suit our own selfish needs........

Yes, let's get the dodo bird back instead if we are gonna try to play "God".

Posted at 11:47AM on Jun 17th 2009 by yomama

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