Posted: February 14, 2009, 5 a.m. EST
South Korea’s Pet Clone Wars
Dogs are notoriously complex to clone, and Korea is the only country where researchers have successfully done the deed, TIME magazine reports.
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Tigers’ Latest Hope: Maggie the Dung-Sniffing Dog
Maggie the German Wirehaired Pointer has arrived in Cambodia with an unusual task — sniffing out tiger droppings in one of Cambodia's largest nature reserves, The Associated Press reports.
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Garden Grove, Calif., Opens Its First Dog Park
Grand opening event to celebrate Garden Grove's first dog park Saturday in Garden Grove Park, The Orange County Register reports.
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Funerals Going to the Dogs
A funeral home has run an obituary for a dearly departed dog and is holding a wake next week for the 9-year-old German Shepherd Dog in what appears to be a Massachusetts first, the Boston Herald reports.
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Couple Opens Home, Hearts to Traumatized Sled-Dog Reject
Ice, a pure-white Shepherd-Greyhound-Husky mix, showed every sign of being one of those animals that seem doomed from the beginning, born under a black thundercloud that moves with them through what is almost inevitably a short life, USA Today Pet Talk columnist Sharon Peters reports.
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