Pit Bull Dog Clone Delivered To US Customer By Korean Sooam Biotech

[Big Dog]

Sooam Biotech Research Foundation (Korea) appears to have delivered on their promise of being able to clone new dogs for bereaved owners. Published and broadcast reports claim that five American Staffordshire Terrier (Pit Bull) cloned puppies were received by a woman in the United States on 5 August 2008.

The DNA came from a dog much loved by the woman but since passed away, said the reports. Two surrogate mothers carried the pups to term in South Korea, according to the same sources.

The work was lead by Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean cloning researcher described elsewhere in this forum and under investigation.

There are past claims that cloned Tibetan Mastiff pups were born in April, and the effort was initiated, says Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, at the request of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

As we've stated before, it remains to be seen if fully independent tests can verify these published claims.

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Pit Bull Dog Cloned By Korean Sooam Biotech

Your thoughts?

[PitBullTherapyDog]

As an owner of a RESCUED American Pit Bull Terrier myself, I see no reason for cloning when there are hundreds of thousands of them in shelters everywhere.  I mean, really. She could have renovated a shelter for that kind of cash.  Below are two pit bulls that were thrown away by previous owners and now reside in loving homes.  I just think that she should have saved a life instead of cloning a life.