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September 13, 2008

Walt Disney to honor St. Louis police dogs

Walt Disney Pictures will honor the St. Louis police canine unit Saturday for its bravery and service and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the unit, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said.

Four canine teams from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department will be recognized: Two of the dogs recently risked their lives during the tracking of armed felons, while two other dogs that are retired from the force will be honored for working more than a decade, the department said in a release.

The event, to be held at 11 a.m. at the intersection of 13th and Chestnut streets, is part of Disney’s national fundraising tour to benefit the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The campaign also ties into the release of the new Disney move, “Bolt,” an animated comedy.

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September 10, 2008

First Cloned Dog is a Father

I found this article in USA Today Online.  Pretty interesting.   
SEOUL (AP) — Snuppy — the world's first cloned dog — is a father.

A team of Seoul National University scientists said Tuesday that 10 puppies were born in May using sperm from Snuppy artificially inseminated into two cloned female dogs.

The scientists say the births mark the world's first breeding among cloned dogs, though breeding among cloned rats, cows and pigs has successfully been carried out abroad.

"Scientific doubt over whether breeding by cloned dogs is possible has been resolved," Lee Byeong-chun, head of the research team, told The Associated Press.

Lee said his team has cloned about 30 dogs and five wolves since it succeeded in cloning Snuppy in April 2005.

 

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