Dogs we wish we could clone: Benji. Underdog. Balto. Lassie. Scooby Doo. Beethoven. Deputy Dawg. Trakr?

If you’re wondering who Trakr is, he’s one of the dogs who sniffed out survivors of the New York World Trade Center catastrophe back in 2001. He actually located the last living survivor, who was trapped 30 feet under debris.

That definitely makes him clone-worthy.

Now that Trakr is 15 years old and can no longer use his back legs because of a degenerative neurological disorder (which may have been caused by the toxic fumes from the smoke of the 9/11), he is the lucky winner of a new cloning project conducted by BioArts International.

BioArts will transport a sample of Trakr’s DNA to the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea, which should be ready to clone by the end of the year.

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