Would you ever clone your pet?

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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.

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?