China clones 'Sherlock Holmes' police dog to cut training times
The dog, named Kunxun, was cloned from a police sniffer dog by the Beijing-based Sinogene Biotechnology Company and the Yunnan Agricultural University, with support from the Ministry of Public SecuritySinogene is hoping to make it possible to achieve “volume production” of cloned police dogs in order to significantly reduce training timesKunxun, now three months old, will undergo extensive training in drug detection, crowd control and searching for evidence, and will become a fully fledged police dog when it is about 10 months old