Would you ever clone your pet?

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 03-12-2008, 12:31 PM

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.

Quote:

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?

**a.L** · 03-12-2008, 12:34 PM

Reminds me of that Arnie movie about cloning...

**Spirit** · 03-12-2008, 01:55 PM

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.

**Yosei** · 03-12-2008, 05:14 PM

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.

**O-mie** · 03-12-2008, 05:23 PM

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

**Hessah** · 03-12-2008, 10:44 PM

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"!!

**viasta** · 03-12-2008, 10:50 PM

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

**Loveless** · 03-12-2008, 10:58 PM

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.

**O-mie** · 03-12-2008, 11:06 PM

The memories and personality are not kept.

**Belaslav** · 03-12-2008, 11:09 PM

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