Toppy

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Toppy is the name given to seven cloned{{cite news

|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8158097.stm

|title=Cloned sniffer dogs begin duties

|work=BBC News

|date=2009-07-19|access-date=2009-07-21}} Labrador Retriever dogs, born in late 2007 to three surrogate mothers. {{cite news

| last= Mostrous

| first= Alexi

| url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3814810.ece

| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080706180047/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3814810.ece

| url-status= dead

| archive-date= July 6, 2008

| title= Seven cloned sniffer dogs named Toppy begin training in South Korea

| publisher= The Sunday Times

| date= April 25, 2008

| access-date= 31 August 2010}} They were the world's first cloned working dogs, and were used by the Korea Customs Service.

Each Toppy is a clone of a successful sniffer dog in Canada. {{cite news

| last= Peeples

| first= Lynne

| url= http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=cloned-dogs-sniff-out-contraband-in-2009-07-20

| title= Cloned dogs sniff out contraband in South Korea

| publisher=

| date= Jul 20, 2009

| access-date= 31 August 2010}} The Toppy dogs needed 16 months of training to qualify to work for the South Korean Customs Service. Only 10-15% of dogs are genetically predisposed to being effective detection dogs. {{cite news

| last= Kim

| first= Hyung-Jin

| url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/25/genetics.korea

| title= Cloned sniffer dogs go on show

| work= The Guardian

| date= 25 April 2008

| access-date= 31 August 2010}}

The project cost ₩300 million (about US$240,000), and was funded by the Government of South Korea; it was led by Lee Byeong-chun, a former aide to Hwang Woo-suk, who fell from grace after his stem cell research turned out to be fabricated.