Pet Clone News - Cat, Dog, & Animal Clones

Audubon Zoo Clones Wild Cats:


Researchers in New Orleans say they have proved cloning can be used to save endangered species. Two litters of wild cats born in July and August are the offspring of cloned wild cats. Zoo officials say the eight kittens are doing just fine. According to scientists at the Audubon Center, this is the first time clones of two wild cats, or any kind of cat for that matter, have been able to reproduce. The kittens will be on display later this year at the Audubon Zoo.

Hope for wildcats after litters born from clones - The Herald:


SCIENTISTS in the US have produced wildcat kittens by cross-breeding cloned adults, a move which could help the Scottish species.

This is the first time clones of a wild species have bred, according to the team at the Audubon Centre for research of endangered species in New Orleans.

Eight kittens have been born in two litters over the last month, and are all said to be doing well. The researchers believe it holds enormous potential for preserving a range of endangered species by reviving their genes.

Last year, scientists warned that the Scottish wildcat was on the brink of extinction because it had bred so extensively with the domestic cat. There are believed to be only 5000 left in the wild.




SCIENTISTS in the US have produced wildcat kittens by cross-breeding cloned adults, a move which could help the Scottish species.

This is the first time clones of a wild species have bred, according to the team at the Audubon Centre for research of endangered species in New Orleans.

Eight kittens have been born in two litters over the last month, and are all said to be doing well. The researchers believe it holds enormous potential for preserving a range of endangered species by reviving their genes.

Last year, scientists warned that the Scottish wildcat was on the brink of extinction because it had bred so extensively with the domestic cat. There are believed to be only 5000 left in the wild.

Clones can reproduce!:


In what is seen here as another breakthrough for bio-engineering, three cloned African wildcats living in the United States have produced two healthy litters of kittens, demonstrating for the first time that clones of wild animals can breed.

local6.com - News - Cloned Cats Prove Ability To Reproduce:


For the first time ever, two unrelated clones of cat have bred naturally to produce healthy babies -- a scientific breakthough that could open the way to bringing endangered species back from the brink of extinction.

Clones of Man's Best Friend Now Possible:


n the near future, when a dog passes away his owner will be able order an exact duplicate of the pet. Following on the heels of a breakthrough in South Korea, a Bay Area firm hopes to soon offer dog cloning on a commercial basis.

This week a team at Seoul National University announced it has created the first cloned dog. Although many other animals have been cloned, the complexity of the canine reproductive system made dog cloning a particular challenge.

Now the cloned pup, an Afghan hound named Snuppy for "Seoul National University Puppy," is a fast-growing four-month-old. He's an identical version of another Afghan hound, just three years younger. Snuppy was produced from a cell taken from the older dog's ear. The cells were inserted into an unfertilized egg, which was then stimulated to begin dividing and develop into an embryo. It took more than 1,000 cloned embryos to produce Snuppy.

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea:


Stem cell research pioneer Hwang Woo-suk is once again sending tremors through the scientific world by cloning the world’s first dog. “A cloned puppy was born to a surrogate mother on April 24,” the Seoul National University professor said Wednesday. “The puppy is genetically identical to an Afghan hound which provided its somatic cell.”

The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
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LAST YEAR, a kitten named Little Nicky was cloned to duplicate a Dallas woman’s deceased pet. Now we have Snuppy, an Afghan hound created by researchers in South Korea. It is reported that the scientists transferred 1,095 cloned embryos into 123 dogs before they produced a live birth from a Labrador retriever surrogate “mother.”

TheStar.com - Cloning can't create perfect pet:


Many people shake their heads with wonder and amusement at the way animal lovers behave over their pets. However, there is no denying that with more than 12 million dogs and cats sharing our homes, Canadians care deeply about the well-being of these special family members. We cherish our time together and we mourn their passing.

RedNova News - Science - Someone, Somewhere is Trying to Clone a Human Now:


THE Island, a new film starring Scotland's Ewan McGregor and Hollywood starlet Scarlett Johansson, is the story of two young people who go on the run once they realise the idyll in which they live is actually a prison. It turns out the runaway pair are clones, specially bred as insurance policies for their rich, real-world counterparts. The clones are living under a death sentence - they will be harvested for organs should something go wrong with the people from whom they were created.

Inside Bay Area - Bay Area Living
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THE PET cloning industry received a boost earlier this month when researchers in South Korea announced they had produced the first cloned dog. The black and white Afghan hound is named Snuppy — short for Seoul National University Puppy.

MercuryNews.com | 08/26/2005 | Working to prevent folly of pet cloning makes good sense:


The issue of pet cloning has been a topic of discussion on these pages recently in the aftermath of the birth of Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog. And while the temptation is great to regress to second-grade antics such as Henry I. Miller's recent pulling of my pigtails (Op-Ed, ``Overreacting to the news of a cloned Afghan hound,'' Aug. 23), I'll refrain from joining him in the playground sandbox, and instead focus on why pet cloning is an important public-policy and moral debate and not just unrestrained scientific curiosity.

Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - Genetic science alters war on animal rights:


THE guinea pig war was won by the grave-robbers. That was the general verdict on the unsavoury intimidation campaign that has forced a Staffordshire family to stop breeding animals for medical research. Newspapers called it "the new fascism"; the local MP referred to "terrorists". The removal of a family member's body from her grave reads like a ghastly inversion of Burke and Hare.

The Lone Star Iconoclast Online:


The
big news in science this summer is that South Korean researchers
cloned a dog. They created a genetic identical twin of an older
donor dog. They claim their purpose is not to allow pet-owners to
reproduce their pets, but to use their research to help cure human
diseases. But if you think that pet-owners are not going to line
up for “Xeroxing” their aging pet, think again. There’s
a company in Northern California (where else?) called Genetic Savings
& Clone that’s already cloning pet cats. If cats and dogs
are being cloned, how big of a leap is it for people to clone their
beloved Aunt Martha?

U.S. Newswire : Releases : "AAVS OpinionEditorial/Commentary: Cloning is Bad News for Dogs
and Other Animals": "According to a one-page report published in Nature, in order to clone the dog, 123 female dogs underwent repeated abdominal surgeries to remove their eggs and implant multiple cloned embryos, 1,092 of which failed to develop. Additionally, Caesarian sections were performed on the two dogs who actually developed full-term pregnancies. Of the two live puppies born, one succumbed to pneumonia after suffering respiratory distress during his few weeks of life, a common cause of death among cloned animals. The sole surviving Afghan hound dog was named Snuppy, short for Seoul National University puppy."