August 15 news, google for link:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipkBo__HKw9sIsOmBIvXwVw9dinA

SEOUL, South Korea — The American woman who made global headlines for commissioning clones of her favourite pet dog has left South Korea without the puppies.

Bernann McKinney was in South Korea this month to see the five dogs duplicated from her dead pitbull Booger by Seoul-based RNL Bio.

But the publicity led to her being identified as a woman who faced charges in the 1970s of abduction and unlawful imprisonment of a Mormon missionary in Britain.

Kim Yoon, a spokeswoman for RNL Bio, said McKinney left South Korea last week to go back to the United States as scheduled AND did not take the puppies.

Kim said she did not know WHETHER McKinney would return to collect the animals.

Question: what’s up with this news report?

[Still, I do believe the dogs were really cloned. Joy just did not have the money to ship them back to the USA. The story ends here?]