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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26035202/

Cloned pit bull puppies revealed. All five of him

Dog owner clones 5 puppies
Aug. 5: A dog owner has five puppies cloned using ear tissue from her dead dog Booger. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
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SEOUL - 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.


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So rather than save a pit bull or 5 from a shelter she sells her house to clone her dog that has passed? These puppies will never have the same personality as Booger, just his physical appearance. She should have rescued a pit bull in honor of her lost Booger, IMO.
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that is crazy.
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Wow....
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oh man that is awsome maby someone will clone me Smile
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Since it will probably wind up happening in the future-should cloned dogs be able to register with kennel clubs? I was talking about this with my husband last night and we joked about going to conformation where its nothing but clones from the same dog!
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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/?GT1=43001

Great... now people can really talk about how crazy pit bull owners are Sad
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Here's the story for those that can't get through on the above link....
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Is puppy-clone owner a former sex kidnapper?
Reports say she may be woman accused of abducting missionary in 1970s


She owns five puppy clones
Aug. 7: Bernann McKinney shows TODAY viewers the five puppies cloned from her beloved late dog Booger.

updated 8:43 a.m. CT, Fri., Aug. 8, 2008
Just hours after appearing live on TODAY to share her joy at becoming the first owner of commercially cloned puppies, Bernann McKinney found herself dogged by controversy that had nothing to do with a scientific breakthrough.

In a bizarre twist to what had ostensibly been a feel-good story, reports surfaced Thursday that McKinney may be actually be a former softcore porn model who jumped bail in England 30 years ago when facing charges of false imprisonment of a former beau.

After McKinney appeared on TODAY and her story was picked up by newspapers around the globe, reporters who covered the sensational case of one Joyce McKinney back in 1978 believed that the 57-year-old Bernann and the woman who set England on its ear with a lurid, celebrated sex case decades ago were, in fact, one and the same.

While the women’s ages appear to jibe and then-and-now pictures that ran on the TimesOnline Web site in England are uncanny in their resemblance, Bernann McKinney angrily denied she and Joyce McKinney were actually one and the same. “That’s garbage, that’s rot,” she said.

’70s tabloid sensation
Joyce McKinney was a former Miss Wyoming who reportedly had a relationship with a 19-year-old member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while living in Utah. But when Mormon Kurt Anderson received a two-year missionary’s position in England on church directive, Joyce McKinney reportedly hired a private detective to track him down.

With the help of a friend, Joyce McKinney allegedly took Anderson against his will from a Mormon church in Ewell, England, and held him captive for three days in a remote cottage. Anderson told a British court he was sexually assaulted three times by McKinney while bound to a bed before managing to escape.

Joyce McKinney became a media magnet in Great Britain when she took the stand at her bail hearing on kidnapping charges. Although not required to make a statement, McKinney filled the court’s ears with intimate, kinky details of the couple’s sex life, which were lapped up by England’s racy tabloids and blazed across their covers.

She served three months in a British prison before being released on bail for mental health issues. But when her trial was due to begin in May 1978, McKinney was nowhere to be found — according to reports, she fled the country through Ireland before returning to the U.S. She was given a one-year prison sentence in absentia — although when authorities tracked her down in Atlanta, Ga., a year later, Britain declined to extradite her.

Still, Joyce McKinney’s case became the stuff of contemporary legend, especially after she told the court “I loved him [Anderson] so much that I would ski naked down Mount Everest with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to.” She later became the subject of a pulpy book, “Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon,” which included 16 pages of semi-nude modeling she had done for a host of mainly bondage-themed magazines.

Bernann and Booger
But if Joyce McKinney is indeed clone-owner Bernann McKinney, no secrets of her colorful past were on display during Bernann McKinney’s interview with Natalie Morales on TODAY Thursday. She related the heartwarming story of how her beloved pet pit bull Booger saved her life when she was attacked by another dog 11 years ago, and spoke about her quest to have Booger cloned after his death in 2006. A South Korean biotech firm took tissue samples saved by McKinney and cloned Booger into five puppies that were born July 28.

“We cloned an exceptional dog,” Bernann McKinney told Morales, adding that she believed Booger, a rescue dog, was sent by God to save her life and that she was blessed all over again with the new puppies.

“He sent Booger down to help me out, and he knew I would be lost without him,” she said. “So he sent some more.”

As far as the mystery of whether Bernann McKinney was once tabloid sensation Joyce McKinney — or merely bears a resemblance to her so strong that she might be called a clone herself — the truth may be lost to history.
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So are you telling me...it's not okay to hunt a guy down, kidnap him, and well ya know the rest......LOL, man now you tell me....
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pitmamma wrote:
So are you telling me...it's not okay to hunt a guy down, kidnap him, and well ya know the rest......LOL, man now you tell me....

I dont know the rest your gonna have to fill me in lol
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Ha ha you wish....guess you will have to call me for the rest of it.....lol
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pitmamma wrote:
Ha ha you wish....guess you will have to call me for the rest of it.....lol

I'll call late at night...and it better be good juicy details lol
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You can't stay up late enough to get the good juicy details.....
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pitmamma wrote:
You can't stay up late enough to get the good juicy details.....

I'll stay up for a week straight if need be.
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ROFL..........
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all I can say is WOW about the article lol thats just crazy upon crazy.
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