Puppy Goo Goo, Fetch Me a Dream!

So they've cloned a dog.


As you can see, it's a flopsy little Afghan ball of hair. His name is Snuppy, which his South Korean daddies derived by crashing "Seoul National University" into "puppy." Cute. (Even cuter, I've learned is that the first cloned cat's name was "CC," as in the duplicating email function. Love it.) So this momentous event had taught me two things: (1) that Afghan puppies are adorable; and (2) that when a news even involving dogs happens, newspapers go nuts with puns.

As proof, here are some headlines of various newspaper articles detailing Snuppy's birth:

• Give a clone a bone - San Francisco Chronicle
• Double dog care taken - San Jose Mercury
• Man's best clone! - New York Daily News
• Snuppy rewards dogged approach - Nature
• Licking big challenge, scientist clones dog - Seattle Times
• In a furry first, a dog is cloned in South Korea - Washington Post
• Like father, like son; first cloned dog created in pet project - London Times
• First cloned dog has its day - Fortune
• Cloning's gone to the dogs - The Australian
• You ain't nothin' but a clone, dog - CNETNews.com

And here's one that's borderline misleading:

• Man clones best friend - The Age, Australia

And then others are just downright shitty:

• Beating hurdles, scientists clone a dog for a first - New York Times
• One hairy lab moment unleashed world's top dog - Fairfax Digital, Australia
• First cloned dog is healthy and seems to be happy to be cloned - NewsFromRussia.com
• Snuppy, first cloned dog, is born, researchers say in nature - Bloomberg.com
• First canine clone is chip of the old block - New Scientist
• First cloned dog ever welcomes world - Zaman Daily, Turkey
• Meet Snuppy, first clone with a cold, wet nose and big, floppy ears - The Herald, England

And the champion of doggy-style pun headlines:

• Nick nack paddy whack, give the dog a clone — that's Snuppy the puppy bouncing home - Irish Independent

And if I had written the lede: You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can grow a crime against God from one of his ear cells.