Thanks to cloning, severe shortage of dogs and (gasp!) cuteness averted

Those wacky South Koreans* have been up to their necks in mischief-- makin' whoopie laboratory-style. Professor Hwang's team (yes, a guy named Hwang is making clinical reproduction dead-sexy!) removed a nucleus from a dog's egg and fused it with a somatic cell from a three-year-old male Afghan hound. That's hott.

You have to admit, this clone puppy is as adorable as his natural counterpart (if not more).

*And no, I wasn't going to make a joke about South Koreans making more dogs for more dinners. Sheesh, how insensitive do you think I am?