Have you ever heard a manager say, “He’s such a good worker, I’d like ten of him?” Well, BioArts International is making that happen, sort of.
The company has decided to clone Trakr, a German shepherd that served as a rescue dog in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.
Trakr’s handler, retired Canadian police officer James Symington, wrote an essay about the dog that won BiioArts’ contest to find the most “clone-worthy dog,” according to the New York Daily News.
Symington and Trakr were among the first search-and-rescue teams to search for survivors at Ground Zero.
Trakr, now 15, suffers from a degenerative neurological disorder that experts said may be linked to exposure to toxic smoke at the Trade Center site.
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