Those Amazing Sniffer Dogs! Part II

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While electronic noses wait to jon the fray of sniffing dogs,  there are attempts to create an “ideal” sniffer dog.  Seven cloned sniffer dogs, the first of its kind in the world were born in South Korea in 2007.  They are called “Toppy” meaning Tomorrow’s Puppy and born of three surrogate dams in a $300 million project funded by the state. 

The “Toppies” seem to possess all the hereditary qualities and behavior that together single out an efficient sniffer dog, according to Lee Ho the South Korean Customs Representative.   

The dogs are reported to have started working after an initial round of training and  it had been easier to train them than the usual sniffer dogs, says the Repesentative. 

Lee Byung-Chun is credited with a fundamental role in carrying out the dog cloning successfully when he helped create a 36 month old Afghan Hound’s duplicate.  The nuclei of the somatic cells of a Golden Retriever have also gone into the cloning process. 

Meanwhile, in another part of the globe, a “Super Sniffing Dog” was developed.  That’s right!  The Russian Aeroflot Airlines has its very own breeding center.  It has now helped develop a sniffer dog to detect bombs and drug trafficking in the Moscow Airport.  The dog is a cross between a Turkmen Jackal and a Siberian Husky!

It took the breeding center an awesome 27 years to perfect this dog!  According to the Airlines, this special dog is superior in its sniffing qualities as compared to the normally accepted breeds of sniffer dogs.