Bernann McKinney is the owner of the first successfully cloned canines. McKinney paid Korean biotech firm RNL Bio to clone her dog Booger, who died of cancer two years ago. RNL charged McKinney $50,000 and cloned 5 pit bulls from tissue extracted from Booger.

The Daily Mail reported on August 6, 2008, that Bernann McKinney resembled Joyce McKinney, a former U.S. beauty queen who was accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting Kirk Anderson, then a Mormon missionary. The report alleges that Joyce McKinney had a brief affair with 19-year-old Anderson in the U.S. in the 1970s. She allegedly followed him to England in 1977, where she forced him to have sex with her. Some reports state that Anderson may have been wearing a Mormon chastity belt at the time of the assault.

Bernann McKinney denies the connection.