 Snuppy ( Korean : <unk> a portmanteau of " SNU " and " puppy " ; born April 24 , 2005 ) is an Afghan hound , credited with being the world 's first cloned dog . The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers , of which only three produced pups ( Snuppy being the sole survivor ) . Department of <unk> and biotechnology at Seoul National University for cloning Snuppy was led by Dr. Byeong Chun Lee . Snuppy has since been used in the first known successful breeding between cloned canines , after his sperm was used to artificially inseminate two cloned females , which resulted in the birth of 10 puppies in 2008 . 
