The German shepherd, who lives with his owner, James Symington, in Los Angeles, was picked by BioArts International, a Californian cloning firm, as the most “clone-worthy” canine in a competition offering an owner a free chance to replicate their pet.

Mr Symington said he and Trakr were among the first search and rescue teams to arrive at the New York site after the attacks, and were responsible for locating the last human survivor under about 30 feet of debris.

Didn’t we all get over the cloning fad a few years ago? They cloned that sheep, proved it could be done and then it died. The 9/11 dog was a hero and that’s great but let the dog die and let new dogs be born. If you want to take advantage of his genes, breed him with a female hero dog and they can make hero puppies. There’s no need to clone it just to produce some weird-experiment-inbred-clone-dog.

I don’t see what the fascination is with cloning things, just have two animals fuck and make a new one. It’s pretty simple. It’s not like we’re running out of dogs, sheep or cattle. Let them do what they always did: fuck in barnyards.

Clone things that are endangered or are severely closed to being extinct but don’t clone animals that we have plenty of, no matter how heroic the dog was.

My new motto: “Stop Cloning, Make Animals Fuck”