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Would you ever clone your pet?

So I have to work on an essay on animal cloning, and I found some article where a woman is gonna get her pet cloned for US$150,000 because she had a strong connection with it and missed her pet terribly when it died.

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Plan to clone woman's dead pet dog

A SOUTH Korean firm has received an order for what it said was the world's first commercial cloning of a pet dog - a request from a US woman to re-create her beloved late pitbull.

RNL Bio is charging $US150,000 to clone the pitbull terrier for the California woman using tissue from her dead pet, named Booger, it said today in a statement.

"It seems that she had a disability and her dog helped her cope with the problem, so she was eager to get a clone of Booger,'' the company's CEO, Ra Jeong-Chan, was quoted as telling the Korea Times.

"There are many people who want to clone their pet dogs in Western countries even at this high price.''

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A Seoul National University (SNU) team created the world's first cloned dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy, on a non-commercial basis in 2005.

"Since then, no other teams have ever succeeded in cloning dogs. This will mark the first time that a dog is being cloned in a commercial contract,'' said RNL Bio marketing director Cho Seong-Ryul.

For full article: http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story...012783,00.html

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Would you ever clone your pet?

Reminds me of that Arnie movie about cloning...

Ever seen Pet Cemetary? When they are dead and gone, they are dead and gone, get another dog. Now, don't get me wrong. I LOVE my babies and it will break my heart when they pass, but seriuosly, cloning? wtf. Get another dog.

Yeah =/ I'd just get another pet. Too expensive to clone a pet that will live less than 15 years(most likely). And who knows, it may run away or get stolen or ran over within a year or two.

I'd neveeer do that. It would just break my heart more. I mean, it seems like the lady believes its like ressurrecting her pet, but its not. x_x

erlll so do cloning like.. bring memory back into the dog too? or u hv to retrain it? =/

i dont own a pet so.. i dont hv that bond but... OMG... i think i'll be freaked out if they brought my pet "back to life"!!

Yes, I would clone my dog, clone it x1 trillion trillion to take over the world

You can't clone its memories so it's just another look-alike dog. So why not just spend $500 instead of $500,000 to get a dog that looks like the one that passed?

I love my dog too and mom's been telling us to be ready cause she's not getting any younger (14 years-old this September). We'll all be crushed when she passes but I would never, ever think of cloning. She's a one in a million and not even her clone could replace her.

The memories and personality are not kept.

Hell no. Like O-mie said, your pet is basically reborn, and you have to teach it everything all over again.

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Originally Posted by O-mie (Post 106364)

The memories and personality are not kept.

Yeah, so you're paying so much more for a look-a-like that may not even like you in the end! :/

If they died of disease or sickness, yeah, I might.

OMMG IM SO IMMORALLll.

Eh, nvm. I'd rather save a few hundred grand and get a new dog.

wait
i got something better than cloning
i can just get my dog and have it mate with another pure bred german shepherd and this way my dog gets pregnant
then this way, more and more german shepherds!!

For those who are curious, no, cloning the dog will not clone it's memories.

However, the dog will grow up exactly the same as her previous dog, not only look wise, but personality wise. For example, if Loveless's dog likes to rub it's bum on the carpet, its clone will also do the same.

I think it's the aspect of being able to get your exact same dog, with the same personalities and trait, makes it appealing and wanted to be done by rich people.

Btw, not saying I would clone my pet if I ever had one, just throwing that piece of info out there to clarify some posts.