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    Booger cloning

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    Booger the pit bull is back! All five of him...

    Tue Aug 5, 6:36 AM ET


    SEOUL (Reuters) - The loss of Booger the pit bull terrier was almost more than Bernann McKinney could bear.

    Now she is happy, minus $50,000 and her house, and owner of five cloned Booger puppies.
    "It is a miracle for me because I was able to smile again, laugh again and just feel alive again," McKinney told a news conference in the South Korea capital to show off the week-old black puppies -- all of whose names include the word Booger.
    They are the work of the biotech firm RNL Bio, affiliated with the South Korean lab which produced the world's first cloned dog and is staffed with former associates of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk.
    She sold her house in the United States to raise the $50,000 for RNL scientists to turn skin cells taken from Booger before he died two years ago into embryos carried by two surrogate dogs for two months until giving birth to the puppies last week.
    "I had to make sacrifices and I dream of the day, some day when everyone can afford to clone their pet because losing a pet is a terrible, terrible loss to anyone."
    After rescuing him from a shelter 12 years ago, Booger had become an indispensable part of her life, said the 57-year-old Californian.
    The lab said it hoped to make its technology more commercial along with its program to clone sniffer dogs for the Korean customs service.
    "As of today, we are at the stage of receiving orders from anywhere in the world," RNL CEO Ra Jeongchan said.
    RNL has said it expected to clone about 100 dogs next year and for the price to drop as technology improves.
    Hwang has been on trial for more than two years on charges of breaking the law on research ethics and for misusing state funds and private donations.
    RNL's research staff is made up of scientists who stayed behind when Hwang left the prestigious Seoul National University after his research results were found to be fraudulent.
    Dogs are considered one of the more difficult mammals to clone because their reproductive cycle includes difficult-to-predict ovulations.
    (Reporting by Reuters TV; Writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and David Fox)

    Booger the pit bull is back! All five of him... - Yahoo! News
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    Its a bit sad. Resurecting a pet from the dead is not possible, even a clone will never be the same.
    And cloned animals are predisposed to genetic defects and generally have a much shorter lifespan with more health problems.

    Though I can see a big market for this sort of thing among the wealthy who are grieving the loss of a much loved pet, it isnt really fair on the animals.

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    Silly yes, unfair on animals, I dont see how, waste of money, quite probably (excluding the increased scientific understanding)


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    Now she's got five dogs, and no house.

    Why didn't she just adopt another dog?

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    I think it's a very scary story. Let's face it, even in the US there are unwanted domestic animals & many thousands get euthanised every year, simply because they have no home. So, this woman has just added another 5 to the population because of her obsession with her dog. Not healthy, IMO, and the money could have been far better spent on psychiatric treatment.

    The fact that cloning is now so readily available (if you can pay) makes me very uneasy, as well. Is this a road we as a species should be going down?

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    Head case with a canine booger fixation. What next?

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    Quote Originally Posted by November Rain
    Is this a road we as a species should be going down?
    It's what they initially said about IVF and gender selection in humans.

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    Pit bull's cloner 'kidnapped Mormon missionary'
    Fri Aug 8 2008


    Bernann McKinney (right) looks remarkably like Joyce McKinney.
    (AAP)

    A US woman who made history this week by having her dead dog cloned has a bizarre skeleton in her closet — a sexual kidnapping crime which made world headlines 30 years ago.

    Bernann McKinney, 57, became the first paying customer of commercial cloning this week after forking out $53,000 to have her pit bull "Booger" cloned five times in South Korea.

    A media investigation has revealed that McKinney almost certainly is the same woman who 30 years ago was accused of kidnapping a Mormon man and forcing him to have sex with her, skipping bail before she could be tried for the crime.

    Images published by the Daily Mail show that McKinney, besides sharing the same last name and a similar past, bears a striking resemblance to a beauty queen named Joyce McKinney.

    That McKinney became tabloid fodder in 1978 when she kidnapped 110kg Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson, shackled him to a bed with mink-lined handcuffs and forced him to have sex.

    McKinney, who recruited the help of a friend, had Anderson chloroformed, hidden under a blanket and driven 300km to a 17th-century "honeymoon cottage" in Devon, England, where he was chained to a bed.

    When McKinney's attempts to convince Anderson to marry her failed, she slipped into a see-through nightie and had sex with him.

    Anderson later told a court: "I couldn't move. She grabbed the top of my pyjamas and tore them from my body until I was naked.

    "I didn't wish it to happen ... I was extremely depressed and upset after being forced to have sex."

    McKinney's counsel told magistrates: "Methinks the Mormon doth protest too much ... you have seen the size of Mr Anderson and you have seen the size of my client."

    McKinney memorably said of her victim: "I loved him so much that I would ski naked down Mt Everest with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to."

    Anderson escaped after McKinney loosened his chains. Authorities later caught McKinney at a roadblock and charged her and her accomplice with false imprisonment and possessing an imitation firearm. She spent just three months in remand due to failing mental health and later fled England using a false passport.

    According to the Mail, McKinney resurfaced when she was arrested in 1984 near Salt Lake City airport where Anderson — the Mormon she had kidnapped — worked.

    Police uncovered a length of rope and handcuffs in her car.

    By the 1990s, McKinney was confined to a wheelchair and back in her home state of North Carolina, living with three ponies and her pet bull "Hamburger".

    "I love those pit bulls," she said at the time.

    "They're such sympathetic animals."

    When the Daily Mail contacted Bernann McKinney and asked if she was Joyce McKinney, the 57-year-old spat back: "Are you going to ask me about my dogs, or not? Because that's all I'm prepared to talk to you about."

    The newspaper reports that a Joyce Bernann McKinney is registered as living in Avery County, North Carolina — birthplace of the Mormon sex slave kidnapper.

    McKinney has denied she and Joyce are the same woman, telling The Times newspaper: "That's garbage, that's rot".

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