The beautiful German Shepherd was cloned in South Korea by Doctor Hwang Woo-Suk, and five puppies were produced: Trustt, Solace, Prodigy, Valor, and Dejavu.

The puppies made their debut on Wednesday in Los Angeles during a press conference with owner James Symington, who told ABCNews.com: “They’re calm. They’re very zen.”

Symington, a retired Canadian police officer, won the cloning of Trakr after he entered an essay contest on why his dog deserved to be cloned.

BioArts, the company responsible for the cloning, will soon be offering cloning for any dog owner for about $136,000 through its new subsidiary Encore Pet Sciences.

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Hero Dog’s Cloned Puppies Make Their Debut

This really just gets more and more bizarre.

So, after selling her house to scrape up the $50,000 needed to clone her long-dead pitbull Booger, getting herself to South Korea for the birth of the five puppies, and then admitting that she is the same Joyce Bernann McKinney that kidnapped and raped a Mormon missionary in the 70’s, Bernann McKinney has left South Korea without the cloned puppies.

She’s apparently on the lam yet again after being identified as the mastermind behind a 2004 burglary plot in Tennessee. She supposedly got a 15-year old boy to break into a house to steal some money so she could… get her three-legged horse a prosthetic leg. She was arrested but skipped out on her court date and her lawyer hasn’t heard from her since.

The biotech company that cloned the dogs said she’ll be back sometime in November for the dogs, though there were reports earlier this week that she’d already left the country with at least one of the puppies.

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Bernann McKinney: Stranger Than Fiction

Trakr, part of one of the first canine rescue units at the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks and the dog to find the last human survivor, is to be cloned later this year.

Trakr’s owner James Symington entered a contest by California-based BioArts International that called for entrants to share why they had the most clone-worthy pet, and it’s easy to see why Trakr was picked!

His DNA will be sent to Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Korea and the clone could be born before the end of the year.

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World Trade Center Hero to be Cloned