Russia has scrapped its cloned dogs of war program after the
first batch of 'superpups' flunked basic tests because they could not handle
the cold, it has emerged.
The designer dogs were cloned in a laboratory to sniff out
explosives and drugs and put through their paces by Vladimir Putin's law
enforcement agency in Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic, Russia's largest
region.
But the animals seem incapable of performing basic tasks
required by dogs working for the police or security services, and have been
rejected for this role, say police chiefs.
The cloned dogs are also not happy in the cold Siberian
winter, and their fate is now unclear.
The animals were gifted by a South Korean cloning expert who
is also seeking to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life using genetic
material preserved in the Siberian permafrost.
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