Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs Prove Successful In South Korea

Rexdude writes "A prized drug-sniffing dog at Incheon Airport in South Korea was cloned four years ago, and now the clones have proven to be much more successful at becoming sniffer dogs themselves compared to regular dogs. Not as controversial as human cloning, but are we going to see genetic copyrights on prized animal breeds in the future?"

Comments

Not much difference

[hackertourist]

Pure-bred dogs are bred in such a small population that they were getting pretty close to being clones anyway.

Electronics aren't much better

[msobkow]

I remember the Toronto airport security testing out one of the electronic sniffers. It was supposed to be much more sensitive than dogs are.

The problem is, it was too sensitive. It turns out that after a few decades of smuggling, pretty much every surface in the baggage handling are has been exposed to drugs or explosives at some time or other, so the electronic sniffer kept going off.

When they turned down the sensitivity, it was no better than a dog.

Case in point: 90 percent of U.S. bils carry traces of cocaine. The fact that a sniffer or a dog "goes off" only justifies further investigation; it's far from proof.