Here he is, the poor little bastard. Cloned Afghan Snuppy was created in Seoul from skin cells taken from the ear of a three-year-old hound. The cells were then placed in an unfertilised egg from a female labrador. Later, the egg was removed to be treated with electric current before it was put back in the labrador's womb.

And now the clone is fourteen weeks old. As if poor Dolly wasn't enough. She died of old age while still a lamb, because the cloned result is the same age as the original. And whatever happened to C.C?

It took more than 1,000 transplants into the embryos of 123 dogs, with the result being three pregnancies. One miscarried and another clone died after three weeks. Bloody hell, I'm glad I'm not a labrador.

News of Snuppy's birth is expected to bring a flood of inquiries from dog-lovers who want to clone their pets. Listen up people, you don't get your old pooch back, just a copy of its body, complete with arthtitis or whatever