母犬(a skilled drug-sniffing canine in active service.)はラブラドール リトリーバーで、5,6ヶ月前にクローンで生まれた7匹の犬の訓練がすでに始まっている。良い訓練犬を得るのはとても難しいのでクローン犬は費用削減にもなっている。(犬の名前は7匹共 Toppyで明日と子犬の英語を混ぜた名だそうだ)
INCHEON, South Korea: The country that created the world's first cloned canine plans to put duplicated dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs and explosives.
The Korean Customs Service unveiled Thursday seven cloned Labrador retrievers being trained near Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. The dogs were born five to six months ago after being separately cloned from a skilled drug-sniffing canine in active service.
The cloning work was conducted by a team of Seoul National University scientists who in 2005 successfully created the world's first known dog clone, an Afghan hound named Snuppy.
The team is led by Professor Lee Byeong-chun, who was a key aide to disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk. Hwang's purported breakthroughs in stem cell research were revealed as false, but independent tests proved the team's dog cloning was genuine.