Cloned SAR Dogs

9/11 is hard to forget, the losses and the heroes, the devastation, and the re-building of American unity. But how many recall the German Shepherd that recovered the last survivor of the attack? Trakr, the heroic German Shepherd’s owner James Symington entered a writing essay contest regarding why his dog should be cloned and won. BioArts International sponsored the essay-writing contest. BioArts sent Trakr’s DNA to Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul, South Korea.

Trakr passed away in April of 2009 and two months later Symington was presented with five cloned pups of Trakr - Trustt, Solace, Valor, Prodigy and Deja-Vu. This summer will begin the long and rigorous training that Symington will undergo with Trakr’s offspring’s to also become Search and Rescue dogs. Training consists of 600 hours of intense training to create privately funded search and rescue team. Symington is hoping that the efforts will make it possible for him to deploy the team internationally by the end of the year to locate people trapped or lost after natural and manmade disasters. With the exact traits as Trakr, it will be interesting to follow these pups in their soon to be career.

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