Snuppy, not to be confused with a similar sounding famous beagle who appears worldwide in a comic strip with his master, Charlie Brown, is the world’s first cloned dog. Shows to go you what I know or don’t know as the case may be. I didn’t know that was the dog’s name, did you? I did know the first cloned sheep’s name was Dolly.

Anyway … Snuppy has had pups.

Snuppy is an Afghan hound. Snuppy is also the pop of 10 puppies through two dogs that were impregnated by artificial insemination. I reckon when Snuppy was cloned the gene for doing ‘it’ was left out, eh?

So, what do you call the child of an animal that was conceived by artificial means through a parent that was produced artificially? How about Arty? Snuppy’s, um, creator (a dude in Seoul – Hwang Woo-suk) fell from grace when he falsified research saying he had also cloned human embryonic stem cells. After his downfall, you could hear his colleagues saying, “That sucks.”

So, we have a creator who fell from grace for lying who made a dog who’s sperm was used to artificially inseminate a couple of bitches….

Does anybody else’s head hurt besides mine?

And don’t we have enough dogs running around now, that we don’t need to make more?